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2008 County Funding for Arts in Rural Areas

At our 2008 Rurals Gathering, Click Here for Notes

People were extremely interested in county funding for the arts in rural areas.  The gathered information to date is posted below: please feel free to add your organization's information and use the growing information to make a case for funding or increased funding by your county.

2008 County Funding for the Arts in Rural Areas

Please add your information on county funding for the arts:  1) Name of County   2) County Population  3) Amount of County Funding and how it's used.

Albany
200,000
-0- (no arts council)

Chenango
48,000
$ 6,600 (no regrant money)

Essex
39,000
$12,000 ($6,000 for regrants)

Franklin
17,000
-0-

Greene (arts council)
65,000
$60,000 ($33,000 for GOS, $27,000 regrants)

Greene (Irish center) 
65,000
$10,000  (tourism)

Jefferson
48,000
-0- ( no arts council)

Livingston
65,000
$30,000 (plus building, utilities, maintenance)

St. Lawrence
111,000
$15,000

Sullivan
70,000
$25,000 ($15,000 for regrants)

Tioga
49,000
$ 9,000 (no regrant money)

Tompkins
70,000
$280,000 total: ($30,000 for GOS; $22,000 GOS for Community Box Office; $10,000 for marketing; $8,000 for admin of regrant program and $200,000 for stablilization regrants for major culturals. Source of $200,000 is a county bed tax.

Wyoming
55,000
$15,800

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