A couple of posts I have recieved offline have lead me to feel a need to clarify that I FAVOR the city spending money on the arts and do feel it is a mistake to further dissipate the cities role in the arts. I actually deleted a few paragraphs from my original post that I felt were too wonkish for even this list. In those paragraphs, I spoke of the substantial evidence that funding the arts are one of the best ways a municipal government can support further economic development based on studies of the number of times a dollar spent by government on a particular budgetary item circulates through the economy and causes other dollars to circulate. Arts funding has been found to have a multiplier effect of about 8 in most studies over the years putting arts funding ahead of a whole host of other budgetary categories in having an effect of stimulating local economic activity.
Below I also correct a sentence from the previous post --- David Strand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The arts are available at > all > times of year and are a less sporadic seasonal > audience than that of the arts. This should read- "The arts are available at all times of year and have a less sporadic seasonal audience than that of pro sports." and thus the implication is that the arts provide a more steady supply of customers for surrounding restaurants, bars, hotels and motels, and retail establishments than prosports do. They also add more value to surrounding residential properties than prosports do. an arts supporter, David Strand Loring Park __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
