Please Take Three Minutes for the Arts

Whether the upcoming state budget will be passed next week or if there will be another extension, is not clear. It is clear, however, that the appropriation for the New York State Council on the Arts is settled: $28 million dollars, a 33% decrease from last year.

No other state agency has been so severely cut. The arts should not be asked to bear a disproportionate share of our state’s financial burden, especially given that, for every dollar of arts funding, eight dollars of income is generated.
 
Please, before this proposal is finalized next week, call or fax the following and (politely!) express your displeasure.

Senator John Sampson 

(tel) 518-455-2788

(fax) 518-426-6806
 
Speaker Sheldon Silver

(tel) 518-455-3792 

(fax) 518-455-5459