{"id":7052,"date":"2017-04-10T18:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:20:54","slug":"ma-house-proposes-deep-funding-cuts-arts-humanities-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/legislation\/ma-house-proposes-deep-funding-cuts-arts-humanities-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"MA House Proposes Deep Funding Cuts to Arts, Humanities, and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Press release from the Massachusetts Cultural Council<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5821\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed.gif\" alt=\"MCC newsletter header\" width=\"500\" height=\"74\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/news\/House_committee_FY18.asp\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">House Committee Proposes Deep Funding Cuts<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">for Arts, Humanities &amp; Sciences<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Supporters Seek Increase through Budget Amendment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Boston, MA) &#8211; The House Committee on Ways and Means today released a state budget proposal that recommends $10 million for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the coming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The Council\u2019s current state appropriation is $14 million. The Baker-Polito Administration proposed a modest, two percent increase in its FY18 budget released in January.<\/p>\n<p>The House Ways &amp; Means proposed cut of 28 percent would thus force significant reductions to grants for nonprofit cultural organizations, local cultural councils, artists, education, and youth programs.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with expected funding reductions from the National Endowments for the Arts &amp; Humanities, state budget cuts could dramatically reverse years of hard-won increases in public support for the cultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consistently see new evidence of the public benefits of investing in our cultural life,\u201d said Anita Walker, Executive Director, Mass Cultural Council. \u201cWe should be debating how to strengthen those investments\u2014for our economy, our communities, and our youth\u2014instead of eliminating them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Representative Cory Atkins of Concord, House Chair of the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Committees\/Joint\/J30\">Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development<\/a><\/span>, filed \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Budget\/HouseDebate\">Amendment # 6 to the House Ways &amp; Means budget<\/a><\/span> to increase funding for the Mass Cultural Council to $16 million for FY18, which begins July 1. This amendment would allow the Council to continue to support core grant programs for nonprofits, communities, schools, and artists. The case for $16 million in state funding next year is online: our <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/news\/FY18_MCC_Budget_Proposal.pdf\">Fiscal Year 2018 State Budget Request<\/a><\/span> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/news\/It_Works_full.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Case Statement for Increased Public Investment in Arts &amp; Culture<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Council will work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass-creative.org\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MASSCreative<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/masshumanities.org\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mass Humanities<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mass Artists Leaders Coalition<\/span><\/a>, and others to build support for this amendment by urging House members to sign on as cosponsors to Amendment #6. The full House will take up the FY18 state budget starting the week of April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The House process is one key step in the annual state budget process. The Senate will release its own budget proposal in May. The two chambers must then agree on a tax and spending plan before sending it back to the Governor, who may veto or approve the budget and\/or specific line items.<\/p>\n<p>See our <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/news\/advocacy.asp\">Advocacy Action Center<\/a><\/span> for updates on the budget process and for the latest data on the nonprofit cultural sector\u2019s contributions to the Massachusetts economy and quality of life.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">About the MCC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MCC is a state agency supporting the arts, sciences, and humanities, to improve the quality of life in Massachusetts and its communities. It pursues its mission through a combination of grants, services, and advocacy for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, communities, and artists. The MCC also runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/facilities\/facilities.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund<\/span><\/a> in partnership with MassDevelopment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Subscribe to\u00a0the Massachusetts Cultural Council&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patronmail.com\/pmailweb\/PatronSetup?oid=945\">email newsletter<\/a><\/strong> to keep up-to-date on news, advocacy and promotion of\u00a0Massachusetts&#8217; arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Press release from the Massachusetts Cultural Council) House Committee Proposes Deep Funding Cuts for Arts, Humanities &amp; Sciences Supporters Seek Increase through Budget Amendment (Boston, MA) &#8211; The House Committee on Ways and Means today released a state budget proposal that recommends $10 million for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[141,133,33,14,35,18,100],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-news","tag-141","tag-artists","tag-cultural-workforce","tag-malc","tag-mass-cultural-council","tag-massachusetts","tag-non-profit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MA House Proposes Deep Funding Cuts to Arts, Humanities, and Sciences &#8226; 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