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Arts organizations, schools and youth groups urge protection of Grants for the Arts and youth services

Budget and Finance Committee, City and County of San Francisco · June 24, 2011
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Summary

Representatives of the San Francisco Opera, Ballet and other arts organizations, plus students and teachers, asked the committee to preserve Grants for the Arts funding and warned cuts would reduce school programming and youth arts access across neighborhoods.

Arts organizations and educators used public comment to ask the Budget and Finance Committee to preserve the proposed arts budget and the Grants for the Arts program. Ruth Knott of San Francisco Opera described a coalition of eight arts organizations representing 200 grantees and asked the committee to “please protect the…

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