It’s in the budget
What does Chico’s arts-related spending add up to?
BENCH MARKChristen Derr’s Chinese Dragon Bench sits at Third and Main streets in downtown Chico.
Photo By Mark Lore
Here is how the city of Chico allocated funds for the arts and other aspects of cultural tourism for the 2005-06 fiscal year:
Arts funded by Transit Occupancy Tax
1078 Gallery $7,232
Chico Art Center $16,620
Friends of Chico Community Ballet $11,200
Blue Room Theatre $16,220
Ensemble Theatre of Chico (Shakespeare In The Park) $12,000
Friends of Arts $2,000
Friends of the Arts/Learning Change (Artoberfest) $50,000
Amaera Bay Laurel (girls writing group/silo dancing) $2,000
Chico Children’s Choir $6,700
Christine C. Jennings (painting) $2,000
Open Arts (CCY) $5,300
Balls Edge (Downtown Music Revolution $2,800
Carla Resnick (Textural multi-media installation) $2,000
Total $136,072
Projects funded by redevelopment monies
Public Art on Private Facilities (matching funds) $15,945
COBA $42,853
Art Benches $22,471
Teen Art Project $1,979
Oak Way Park Art Project $30,709
Forest Avenue Median Art Project/Treatment $40,390
Public Art Lighting Program $10,200
City Plaza Art Treatment $177,310
Hooker Oak Benches $7,278
Total $349,135
Other TOT cultural expenditures $272,838
Grand total $758,045
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