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Help our Community Recover - Restore funding for Arts and Culture.

Arts and Culture in the City of San Diego is projected to be funded at the same devastating level as last year.

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Subject: The Mayor's Proposed Budget remains devastating for Arts and Culture

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The Mayor’s proposed budget is a disappointing and challenging budget for Arts and Culture as it maintains devastating cuts from the last fiscal year and provides inadequate dedicated recovery funding. There are three specific priorities that we request you include and support, both in your revised budget memo and during budget deliberations, in addition to providing much needed formalization for Penny for Arts and Culture with a 5-year phase-in beginning FY22. ♦ Priority 1: Drive community, jobs and economic impact throughout the city by allocating funding for operating support for nonprofit Arts and Culture partners at pre-pandemic levels. ♦ Priority 2: Immediate creation of a Phase 1 Cultural Plan for all Council districts in the city ♦ Priority 3: Drive economic recovery by rebuilding and enhancing the $671M economic engine inherent within the Balboa Park Cultural District experience. Last year, during a period of the greatest possible uncertainty for the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), then-Mayor Faulconer decimated the operating support grant pool for the city’s nonprofit partners by approximately 50% — down to $5.67 million. With the projected rebound in TOT for FY22 of some 75%, it was extremely surprising that the same exceptionally low level of support has been proposed yet again for FY22. With many thanks for your knowledge and support of the critical role and impact of Arts and Culture in the recovery from COVID-19 in our community.

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