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Arts / Visual Art / Theater / Dance 4Culture Back on the Chopping Block
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:21 PM
From 4Culture's Twitter feed a minute ago:
SB 5958 failed to get the 25 votes needed and did not pass. This will take a moment to absorb.
If 4Culture is killed, it will be because it has been attached to all kinds of other funding. But 4Culture is tiny, and 4Culture is terrific, and 4Culture is worthy.
This is an infuriating process. One more bill still remains in play, from what I understand.
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Maybe supporters of the arts will stop supporting poseurs like Fain, Pflug, Hill, Litzow and Kastama. Phonies. All of them.
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A big problem was that it was attached to a bill with a lot of other stuff (like funding improvements to the Convention Center), AND its funding would have come from a stadium tax voters were told would disappear by now, so there was probably a ton of negativity and pushback on this bill from voters to their legislators that had nothing to do with 4Culture or any other arts funding it would have produced.
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@2, and the folks of Yakima County cen thank Curtis King. They participate in the "stadium" taxes, too.
I just watched Robert Mak butcher this story on KING5, that's tv new for ya.
HB 1997 is as dead as SB 5958. SB 5958 was more conservative than HB 1997 and 5958 failed to pass the Senate.
Get a clue, Robert, there is no point in the House moving 1997.
Another clue for Robert, the car rental and restaurant taxes are set to expire. The hotel tax NEVER expires. It is available to every city and county in the state. The control of the tax is in the hands of the county to pay off Safeco and then Qwest, in 2021 the county loses control of the tax to the cities.
What 4Culture has been looking for in SB 5958, HB 1997, and SB 5834 is to have the state allow 4Culture a percentage of the HOTEL tax in 2021 when Qwest is paid off, and allow 4Culture to bridge the time from 2012 to 2021 by spending part of its endowment. By law they are unable to do that. By law there is not garentee that the never ending hotel tax will go to the cities will get spent on 4Culture. The cities can choose to spend it on their own arts programs, and 4Culture will be 3/4 dead by then.
I look for SB 5834 to pass the Senate again. It has been on the floor calendar for a few days, hotel taxes only. Those taxes never expire, everybody knows it except Robert Mak.
Unfortunately for King County, the convention center looks like it will have to wait for 2017 to start. That kind of sucks, we need the jobs. Somebody (Republicans) tell me how many jobs will be magically created when the restaurant tax drops by half a percent (short answer is not a flat fucking zero).
Frank Chopp will not car rental taxes (stadium taxes) to pay for workforce housing.
IMO, that's where it's at.
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I just watched Robert Mak butcher this story on KING5, that's tv new for ya.
HB 1997 is as dead as SB 5958. SB 5958 was more conservative than HB 1997 and 5958 failed to pass the Senate.
Get a clue, Robert, there is no point in the House moving 1997.
Another clue for Robert, the car rental and restaurant taxes are set to expire. The hotel tax NEVER expires. It is available to every city and county in the state. The control of the tax is in the hands of the county to pay off Safeco and then Qwest, in 2021 the county loses control of the tax to the cities.
What 4Culture has been looking for in SB 5958, HB 1997, and SB 5834 is to have the state allow 4Culture a percentage of the HOTEL tax in 2021 when Qwest is paid off, and allow 4Culture to bridge the time from 2012 to 2021 by spending part of its endowment. By law they are unable to do that. By law there is not garentee that the never ending hotel tax will go to the cities will get spent on 4Culture. The cities can choose to spend it on their own arts programs, and 4Culture will be 3/4 dead by then.
I look for SB 5834 to pass the Senate again. It has been on the floor calendar for a few days, hotel taxes only. Those taxes never expire, everybody knows it except Robert Mak.
Unfortunately for King County, the convention center looks like it will have to wait for 2017 to start. That kind of sucks, we need the jobs. Somebody (Republicans) tell me how many jobs will be magically created when the restaurant tax drops by half a percent (short answer is not a flat fucking zero).
Frank Chopp will not car rental taxes (stadium taxes) to pay for workforce housing.
IMO, that's where it's at.
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Those guys can get real jobs and then blog and tweet and tumbl like the rest of the world every spare stolen moment of their lives.
Funding...p'tooey!
Funding...p'tooey!
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someone needs to ask why certain state legislators were at the ArtsFund luncheon today at the Westin instead of being present to vote...
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