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City Council Moves Lease Subsidy Issue to Committee
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 1:09pm
On June 1st, 2010, the Los Angeles City Council voted to move the proposed Nonprofit Lease Subsidy Council File into the Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee.
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Leased City-Owned Properties Issue in City Council, 5/19
Fri, 05/14/2010 - 10:26am
The Leased City-Owned Properties/Non-profit Organizations Council File has been scheduled for the Wednesday, May 19th City Council meeting. This is the full City Council, not the Arts, Parks & Aging Committee as the letter-writing campaign requested.For the background on this...
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Update on DCA Fund Allocation Issue
Mon, 05/03/2010 - 11:09am
Although the Budget & Finance Committee process is somewhat difficult to follow, Arts for LA will do our best to quickly provide a snapshot of what took place.
To get the full story, you can watch the hearing when it is posted at http://councilcommittee. lacity.org/budget/video.htm.
Here’s what we know in a nutshell:
There was no action taken by Budget &... Read more
Burbank Advocacy Year in Review
By TaraTheOrganizer // June 3, 2010 09:14 AM
At the May 26th Arts for All Progress Report meeting, Burbank Arts Ed Advocacy Team Co-Chair Alexandra Helfrich gave an impressive presentation detailing the great work of the Burbank team this year. Her speech is below.
"I’d like to share what we learned this year during our partnership with Arts For All.
Burbank District Arts Coordinator, Peggy Flynn, worked with Tara Stafford from Arts for LA to identify a “Leadership Team” for the Arts Advocacy Group. This... Read more
SMMUSD Budget Update
By TaraTheOrganizer // June 2, 2010 01:31 PM
Early this week, arts education advocates along with many other parents, educators, and community members in Santa Monica and Malibu were disappointed to learn that Measure A failed according to the latest vote count.* Measure A, a parcel tax initiative conducted by SMMUSD through a mail-in only election, was the district’s best shot at retaining many of its programs and staff.
The measure needed a 2/3 vote in favor to pass. It received just over 63% of the vote, missing the mark by... Read more
Home Stretch
By Danielle Brazell // May 25, 2010 09:01 PM
Whew! Take a deep breath, advocates.
We're in the home stretch of "advocacy season," the period from January to June when County, city and school district budgets are debated, revised and passed. This year, there is no shortage of opportunities to get involved, from the Nonprofit Lease Subsidy issue to the ongoing... Read more
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