{"id":8970,"date":"2013-01-16T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=8970"},"modified":"2013-01-16T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:09:33","slug":"toronto-city-council-approves-billboard-tax-funding-for-arts-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/01\/16\/toronto-city-council-approves-billboard-tax-funding-for-arts-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto City Council approves billboard tax funding for arts and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8971\" alt=\"luminato1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/luminato1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Although the result was not seriously in doubt, it&#8217;s a relief to learn that Toronto City Council voted today to approve using a $22.5 million reserve fund from an outdoor advertising tax for arts and culture funding.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Executive Committee had approved the plan and forwarded it to Council last week.<\/p>\n<p>The extra money will be doled out in annual installments, with the first $6 million addition to arts funding coming in 2013. The total extra arts funding will increase by $17.5 million over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoartsfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Arts Foundtion<\/a>, until the new money starts to flow, Toronto is the last among Canada&#8217;s big cities in terms of per-capita arts funding.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since voting on the goal of funding arts at the rate of $25 per capita in 2003, one fiscal obstacle after another has been placed in the way of actually putting extra money into the system.<\/p>\n<p>Given inflation &#8212; especially in the cost of performance and exhibition space in Toronto &#8212; the $25 of 2013 is worth less than 10 years ago. But the city&#8217;s arts workers and patrons will celebrate even this devalued victory.<\/p>\n<p>The chief proponents for the billboard tax plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcity.ca\/bcbfpetition.asp\" target=\"_blank\">BeautifulCity.ca<\/a>, are justifyably patting themselves on the back today.<\/p>\n<p>BeautifulCity co-founder Devon Ostrom issued a great thank you to all the individual and institutional supporters and activivists &#8220;that multiplied our efforts and made the BeautifulCity.ca Alliance an unstoppable, ridiculously persistent force for making Toronto a better place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the result was not seriously in doubt, it&#8217;s a relief to learn that Toronto City Council voted today to approve using a $22.5 million reserve fund from an outdoor advertising tax for arts and culture funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,31,39,63],"tags":[6451,386,518,927,1362,1614,6474],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/luminato11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2kG","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8970"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}