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May 8, 2017, Statewide Conference Call
Agenda and Materials
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Who is participating on this morning's statewide advocacy call?
Go here for a list of call participants.
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1.
State Budget and Florida Legislative Update: review status of the
development of Florida's FY 2017-2018
budget as it relates to the
appropriations needed to fund the recommended 2017-2018 Florida
Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA) grants.
2.
Important Data on Arts & Culture: latest release on U.S. Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA) Arts & Culture Satellite Account data about
arts and culture industries.
3.
Federal Updates on Our Industry: review update on status of
the
National Endowment forthe Arts (NEA) for this Fiscal Year 2017 and
other federal issues.
4.
Other Issues to Know About and Engage In: FCA encourages you to
participate in the annual Florida Alliance for Arts Education
Leadership
Summit June 22 through 24 in Daytona Beach
AND learn about and
engage in the
Partnership for Revising Florida's Constitution, which is
related to the work going on now with the Florida Constitution
Revision
Commission work.
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Guest Speaker is Dr. Jim Zingale
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Below are the proposed appropriations to fund the 2017-2018 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs' grants programs:
Breakdown for this appropriation:
$11,128,124 to fund 480 recommended DCA grants --
go
here to column 6 to see approximately what these grants will be. As you know,
$35,519,347 was needed to fully fund all 480 recommended grantees at their qualified grant amounts. This appropriation will fund these grants at approximately 31.7% of what they qualify for under this grants' program.
$2,413,000 to fund the following legislative projects:
St. Petersburg Warehouse Arts District Project (HB 2353) $400,000
Great Explorations Children's Museum (HB 4385) $400,000
African Museum of Arts and Culture Center (HB 2925) $
500,000
African American History Museum at Historic Roosevelt High
School, Palm Beach County (Senate Form 2131) $350,000
Education and Access to Performing Arts Program (HB 2351) $500,000
PIAG Museum (HB 4269) $263,000
Will fully fund all 110 recommended project grants.
Breakdown for this appropriation:
$11,145,088 -- to be used to fund ranked DCA cultural facilities' grant projects; however, to fund all 36, $11,591,554 is needed.
$750,000 is to fund the following legislative projects:
City of Jacksonville J.P. Small Park Museum Improvements
(HB 2439) $500,000
Orlando Science Center (HB 3615) $250,000
Other project/program line items under Division of Cultural Affairs:
FLORIDA AFRICAN-AMERICAN
HERITAGE PRESERVATION NETWORK
FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND $450,000
FLORIDA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND (pass through appropriation) $500,000
FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM - ST. PETERSBURG
FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND $750,000
The funds in Specific Appropriation 3141A are provided for funding an
appropriations project related to HB 2631.
HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATIONCENTER
FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND $357,000
2018 Florida Legislative Session: As soon as this year's legislative session ends, we need to get ready for the
2018 Florida Legislative Session that will be January 9 through March 9.
Florida Legislative committee meetings will begin in early fall to begin work on 2018 legislative bills and the development of Florida's FY 2018-2019 budget.
2018 Elections: It's also important election year for Florida.
Please reach out NOW to your state senator and representative; engage them; invite them to experience your community's arts and culture resources; thank them for their support and share with them reasons why state investments in this industry matter; build these valuable and important relationships with your policy makers.
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After Washington, Florida is one of five states with the fastest growth in arts and cultural employment:
e fastest growth in arts and cultural employment:
For those of you who participated in last month's Florida Cultural Alliance's monthly call,
For those of you who participated in last month's Florida Cultural Alliance's statewide advocacy and information-to-use conference call, you heard guest speaker Paul Kern with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) discuss the Arts & Cultural Production Satellite Account that generates a tremendous amount of economic data on our industry.
Arts and cultural economic activity nationwide grew an inflation-adjusted 1.9 percent in 2014, according to new statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That compares with a 2.4 percent increase in real value added from all arts and culture industries for 2013 (table 1). Arts and cultural economic activity accounted for 4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or $729.6 billion, in 2014 (table 2).
For the first time, the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account includes state-level estimates of employment and compensation.
RESOURCES ON U.S. BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ARTS & CULTURAL
PRODUCTION SATELLITE ACCOUNT:
This summer, we'll invite Paul Kern and one of our other statewide-call guest speakers Sunil Iyengar, Director of NEA Research, to return as guest speakers on one of our monthly calls to review this updated data that relates to just Florida.
takes you to a graphic that you can use to select from a drop-down list of arts and cultural industries to learn how much value and growth they added to the U.S. GDP from the 2014 findings.
takes you to an interactive state map that illustrates the number of workers employed by arts and cultural industries;
it also shows the compensation (earnings and benefits) paid to these workers. To permit comparisons,
the graphic relates arts and cultural employment as a share of the total workforce in each state.
This state-wide concentration of arts and cultural workers is indexed to a national rate (1.0).
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You and Other Florida Advocates Are Taking Action to Save and Fund the NEA -- thank you.
Your advocacy efforts are working ---
increased NEA by $2 million for FY 2017.
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Key Federally Funded Arts & Culture Agencies/Programs
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FY 2016 Enacted Appropriations
(in millions)
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FY 2017 Omnibus Proposal
(in millions)
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
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$148
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$150
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National Endowment for Humanities (NEH)
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$148
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$150
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Assistance for Arts Education through U.S. Department of Education
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$27
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$27
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New ESSA Well-Rounded Education grants
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$400
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Corp for Public Broadcasting (forward funded)
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$445
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$445
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Office of Museum Services
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$31
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$32
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Smithsonian Institution
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$840
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$863
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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$54
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$57
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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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$36
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$36
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U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
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$2.65
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$2.8
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Nat'l Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program
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$2
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$2
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National Gallery of Art
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$148
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$155.5
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You did it, Florida arts and culture advocates went from 2,683 signatures to 9,487 at the close of signing the petition to save and invest in the NEA.
Are you curious to see how many final signatures were received from
individuals living in your county? Go
here.
3,543 Florida arts and culture advocates have sent emails, as of 4-7-2017, to their Florida members of Congress to save and invest in the NEA.
Are you curious to see how many advocates, as of 4-7-2017,
living in your county sent emails?
Go
here
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Three issues you can take action on now at Americans for the Arts' Action Center
Resources for you regarding Florida Members of Congress and Impact of NEA funding on Florida:
1. Which organizations in Florida have received NEA grants over the
last three years -- 2014 through 2017? Go
here.
2. How did Florida DCA use its annual NEA State Partnership Block
FY 2016 grant? Go
here to see how its FY 2015-2016 grant was used.
3. Do a
search to see which organizations in your city have received
NEA
grants for a specific year?
4. Speeches on U.S. House floor in support of NEA.
6. Use
Americans for the Arts Mobilization Center --
access here
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How are Florida Members of Congress doing in their support of NEA:
1. List of all by Washington, DC, office buildings; links to their websites;
if they are members of the Congressional Arts or Cultural Caucuses,
and if they signed the "Dear Colleague" letter in the
Senate or the
House in support of the NEA.
2. Members of Congress are back in their districts until April 25. Now is
a good time to reach out to them to thank them if they are members
of the Congressional Arts Caucus or STEAM Caucus in the U.S.
House and if they signed the "Dear Colleague" Letter of support for the
NEA. Go
here to check status and access their websites.
If your U.S. Member of Congress is not a member of the U.S.
Congressional Arts OR STEAM Caucus AND Florida's U.S. Senate
members are not members of the Senate Cultural Caucus, please
quickly send them an email to request they join:
Form to join the U.S. House Congressional Arts Caucus
Form to join the U.S. House STEAM Caucus
Form to join the U.S. Senate Cultural Caucus
3.
Excel file of Florida members of Congress, along with their Twitter
handles and names and emails of their arts staffers.
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Other Issues and Opportunities You Should Know About:
Changing Florida's Constitution: It's important that you learn about and engage in the work going on right now with the
Florida Constitution Revision Commission
and the Partnerships for Revising Florida's Constitution's helpful
website
to learn more and to engage in this important and limited opportunity to make positive changes in Florida's constitution.
Other Announcements You Want To Share That Impact Our Industry?
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What are future dates for FCA Advocacy and Information-to-Use Statewide Calls?
Please mark your calendars and plan to participate.
All Calls are on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST:
June 19
July 17
August 21
September 18
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Florida Cultural Alliance
Post Office Box 2131
West Palm Beach, FL 33402-2131
info@FLCA.net
www.FLCA.net
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