Contact your State Senator and ask them to support the Cultural Facilities Fund!

Please contact your State Sentaor to ask them to support Senator Brian Joyce’s amendment to restore funding for the Cultural Facilities Fund!

Funding was recommended by the Governor at $75 million for the Cultural Facilities Fund. In Senate 2187 it is only funded at $50 million:

Senate 2187 An Act providing for capital facility repairs and improvements for the Commonwealth

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/BillHtml/137122?generalCourtId=11

SECTION 2A.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
Office of the Secretary.
0640-0302 For the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund established in section 42 of chapter 23G of the General Laws for the acquisition, design, construction, repair, renovation, rehabilitation or other capital improvement or deferred maintenance to a cultural facility …………………………………………$50,000,000

Please contact your State Senator as today is the deadline to cosponsor Senator Joyce’s amendment to fund the Cultural Facilities Fund at $75 Million. The amendment has not been assigned a number as yet. Just let your senator’s office know that Senator Joyce has an amendment to bump the Cultural Facilities Fund to $75 million and today is the deadline to cosponsor it.

The Cultural Facilities Fund is a key needed grant program and “is administered through a collaborative arrangement between MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Cultural Council”

“The Fund provides Capital Grants to promote the acquisition, design, repair, rehabilitation renovation, expansion, or construction of nonprofit cultural facilities in Massachusetts. All grants from the Fund must be matched with cash contributions from the private or public sector.”

http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/facilities/facilities_about.htm

How to find your State Senator and their contact information:
http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.aspx

If you send an email to them – be sure to list your name, address, and other contact information. We encourage you to let them know if you are a practicing artist and, if so, what discipline(s) you work in!

Also, please share this call to action with as many Massachusetts residents as possible and urge them to contact their State Senator on this issue!

Thank you as always for your time and energy on these very important matters!

Sincerely,

Kathleen Bitetti
Artist
Co-founder of Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition (MALC) & ArtistsUndertheDome.org

John Weeks
Writer
MALC Steering Committee Member