[DAC] FW: How Does Your City or Town Compare in Cultural Investment?

[Joyce Linehan]

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From: Dan Hunter [mailto:dhunter at maash.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:26 PM
To: Joyce Linehan
Subject: How Does Your City or Town Compare in Cultural Investment?
 

How Does Your City or Town Compare in Cultural Investment? 
Municipal Elections are This Fall-Now is the Time to Ask Candidates to
Support Local Cultural Investment
Does your town or city support arts and culture? Using Department of Revenue
sources, the Boston Globe reported (on August 13, 2007) on local spending
for the arts, sciences, humanities and recreation. Reported as a percentage
of the total municipal budget from FY 2006, the state wide average is 2% and
ranges from a high of 8.2% to 0.0%.
The following are the top ten communities supporting the arts as a
percentage of total budget:
1.	Brewster - 8.2% 
2.	Chilmark - 7.5% 
3.	Dennis - 6.9% 
4.	Orleans - 6.7% 
5.	Sterling - 6.5% 
6.	Wenham - 6.0% 
7.	Rowe - 5.9% 
8.	Gay Head - 5.6% 
9.	Wellfleet - 5.5% 
10.	Adams - 5.2%
Six of these towns are on Cape Cod, including Gay Head and Chilmark on
Martha's Vineyard.
http://maash.org/news/maash8_14.htm
<http://capwiz.com/artsusa/ma/utr/1/AANWHNLDRU/CKAFHNLEMZ/1360078111> 
The state average is 2%. Here are a few of the other cities and towns above
the state average:
Amherst 4.7%
Boston 2.1% 
Cambridge 3.8% 
Framingham 2.3% 
Natick 2.5% 
Newton 3.7%
Northampton 2.1% 
Quincy 2.4%
Provincetown 2.0% 
Salem 2.5%
Springfield 2.2% 
Watertown 2.6% 
Please keep in mind that these percentages include funding for recreation
and are, therefore, only a guide to local government investment in the arts.
Municipal elections are coming this fall - it is not too soon to begin
asking candidates to support increased cultural funding at the local level. 

Dan Hunter
Executive Director
Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities

 

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