Lack of funds for local art orgs - "Some of Toledo’s best-known regional arts and community assets - from black-tie traditions to avant-garde artists - are working in a new medium: red ink. At least four of the area’s major venues have posted a string of deficit years: the Toledo Opera, the Arts Commission, COSI, and Citifest. All this worries Mayor Jack Ford, an arts devotee and the man who offered in his inauguration speech the notion of Toledo as an "elegant city." Two years later, he may be looking to taxpayers for some help. In short, a levy. In the coming month, he said, he plans to appoint a committee that will review the pros and cons of a levy and other funding devices." We passed levies for the library and the Metroparks, so why not for the arts?
posted by jr to art at 1:50 A.M. EST
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Now that the library levy has passed they have money to waste on commercials telling us the
library is open on Sundays. Cut the media commercials and use the money in paid display at art museum saying the library is open on Sundays.
posted by Guest at 11:27 A.M. EST on Mon Feb 09, 2004 #
"... money to waste on commercials telling us the library is open on Sundays."
I haven't seen nor heard the commercials, but it's strange to me that they are advertising Sunday hours. I visit the downtown library quite often, and the doors entering the library used to hold signs, indicating the library was closed on Sundays. After the passage of last November's levy, the signs were changed to say the library would be open on Sundays. Unless the commercials are free, I don't see the need for them.
Before the levy, I assume a person shutout on Sundays would have visited the library on other days and would have noticed the new signs, saying the library was now open on Sundays.
Maybe the library is advertising, because Sunday attendance is unacceptable for the cost to keep it open. When the library was closed on Sundays, users had to adjust their schedules, and maybe they have not switched back.
Maybe there is no need to have the library open on Sundays. That's a lot of 'maybes' and a lot of 'Sundays.'
posted by jr at 12:15 P.M. EST on Mon Feb 09, 2004 #
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