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Importance of baselining cultural funding for stability
2:36:32
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Council Member Carlina Rivera emphasizes the critical need to baseline cultural funding, particularly the $45 million adoption, to provide stability for cultural organizations.
- Rivera stresses the importance of baselining funding instead of relying on one-shot allocations
- She highlights the increasing difficulty for cultural groups to operate with the same level of funding year after year
- Rivera suggests that baselining funding should be a key part of budget negotiations
- The council member plans to discuss this further but first yields to her colleagues for questions
Carlina Rivera
2:36:32
Well speaking of stability, I will ask about finally baselining that $45,000,000 that adoption in a second because I think that's critical and that should be how we take this negotiation to the level at which the cultural groups deserve because of so many years doing the same sort of thing like asking for this money and then the one shot being administered, and we really have to baseline this funding so we can get them to a point where they just are in a better place after so many years of the same funding coming in.
2:37:08
It's getting harder and harder for them to operate, as you know.
2:37:11
But first I'm going to go to my colleagues.
2:37:13
Let's go to Councilmember Hudson, followed by Brewer.
2:37:16
Councilmember?
Crystal Hudson
2:37:17
Thank you so much, Chair, and good afternoon.