Our Picture of Health 1998:
Focusing on Community Health to the Year 2000CHAPTER 3: ARTS AND CULTURE
4. Financial Support for Arts and Cultural Activities
This indicator measures community commitment to arts and culture. The local nonprofit arts industry includes 107 employees at more than a dozen arts and cultural institutions with paid staff of at least halftime or more. Annual payroll and benefits for these 107 FTE*s totaled $2.3 million.
The city of Grand Junction has a "One Percent for the Arts" program. Any capital improvement project exceeding $50,000 (including any public building, structure, or park) calls for 1% to be set aside for arts improvements. This program will provide approximately $180,000 for the arts over the next 10 years.
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Figure 3-2: Source of 1996 Income for Arts Organizations
Source: Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture. Excludes funding for Mesa State College and Mesa County Public Library. Almost all government support is for the Museum of Western Colorado.
Three entities receive the majority of government support for cultural and arts programs: the Mesa County Public Library, Mesa State College and The Museum of Western Colorado. Ninety percent of funding for all other entities comes from earned income or donations.
Nonprofit arts organizations (exclusive of the college and the public library system) had a direct $2 million impact on the local economy in 1996. Arts groups reported expenditures of about $2.3 million that year.
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Figure 3-3: Annual Budgets of Arts and Cultural Organizations
Source: Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture.
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