Comments on: from the director: lodging tax for culture http://blog.4culture.org/2010/02/from-the-director-lodging-tax-for-culture/ Advancing Conversation About Culture in King County, Washington Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tom Mattausch http://blog.4culture.org/2010/02/from-the-director-lodging-tax-for-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 Tom Mattausch Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:50:26 +0000 http://blog.4culture.org/?p=5042#comment-1998 Well written: I enjoy your calm, balanced perspective. Do you have any links to quantitative studies or meta-analyses? What can we do to prevent what sounds like a death in the family? Well written: I enjoy your calm, balanced perspective. Do you have any links to quantitative studies or meta-analyses? What can we do to prevent what sounds like a death in the family?

]]> By: Jack Hilovsky http://blog.4culture.org/2010/02/from-the-director-lodging-tax-for-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1788 Jack Hilovsky Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:46:42 +0000 http://blog.4culture.org/?p=5042#comment-1788 Jim, You make a strong argument for how "quality of life" which our lodging tax had advanced by supporting arts and heritage is crucial to our drawing an educated workforce and maintaining a vibrant economy. As the Director of the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, I see how the power of the arts make a huge difference in our community and differentiates us from other neighborhoods due to the number of artists and arts groups situated on the Hill. In the future, please feel free to call on me for testimony to the power of the arts as an economic incubator for communities. Keep up the good work. My best, Jack Hilovsky Director, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce Jim,
You make a strong argument for how “quality of life” which our lodging tax had advanced by supporting arts and heritage is crucial to our drawing an educated workforce and maintaining a vibrant economy.

As the Director of the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, I see how the power of the arts make a huge difference in our community and differentiates us from other neighborhoods due to the number of artists and arts groups situated on the Hill.

In the future, please feel free to call on me for testimony to the power of the arts as an economic incubator for communities.

Keep up the good work.

My best,
Jack Hilovsky
Director, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce

]]> By: Yule Heibel http://blog.4culture.org/2010/02/from-the-director-lodging-tax-for-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Yule Heibel Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:27:22 +0000 http://blog.4culture.org/?p=5042#comment-1763 Ever since I found out about 4culture.org, when Cath Brunner and a colleague came to Victoria BC (at the invitation of our Capital Regional District's Arts Development Office) for the first time to talk about public art, I've admired - nay, lusted after - your work: what you do, how you do it, and what you make possible in King County. I cannot fathom why successful and vibrant work like this would be crippled through reallocation of funding. It's like a case of mistaken identity: as if a healthy person were misdiagnosed as having some kind of serious chronic illness and was forced to undergo a therapy that ends up making him or her ill. Leave healthy agencies alone to do their amazing work; apply medicine (including budget restructuring) to those that need it. The reason for cutting your budget (to service stadia debt) makes me real nervous, incidentally, given the still-undisclosed bills that British Columbia will face in the wake of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. BC already took money away from the arts in its last budget... Ever since I found out about 4culture.org, when Cath Brunner and a colleague came to Victoria BC (at the invitation of our Capital Regional District’s Arts Development Office) for the first time to talk about public art, I’ve admired – nay, lusted after – your work: what you do, how you do it, and what you make possible in King County. I cannot fathom why successful and vibrant work like this would be crippled through reallocation of funding. It’s like a case of mistaken identity: as if a healthy person were misdiagnosed as having some kind of serious chronic illness and was forced to undergo a therapy that ends up making him or her ill. Leave healthy agencies alone to do their amazing work; apply medicine (including budget restructuring) to those that need it.

The reason for cutting your budget (to service stadia debt) makes me real nervous, incidentally, given the still-undisclosed bills that British Columbia will face in the wake of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. BC already took money away from the arts in its last budget…

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