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Residents, arts groups urge $3 million for East Street cultural district in San Bernardino budget workshop
Summary
Dozens of residents, artists and nonprofit leaders urged the San Bernardino City Council to designate the East Street Corridor as a cultural district and to include a $3,000,000 annual arts allocation—proposed as $2 million for staffing/systems and $1 million to reinstate arts grants—so arts programming can support economic development and neighborhood stabilization.
Dozens of residents, artists and nonprofit leaders used the public-comment period at a special City of San Bernardino budget workshop to press the City Council to fund arts programming and to designate the East Street Corridor as a cultural district.
Speakers including Michael Seguda, executive director of the Garcia Center for the Arts, asked the council to adopt an annual $3,000,000 arts allocation to fund staffing, programming and grants. "We're asking for a $3,000,000 annual budget for arts to just get started," Seguda said, urging the city to explore funding mechanisms and partnerships that would make a…
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