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Arts Commission
Laura Zucker, Executive Director
Arts Commission Budget Summary
ARTS COMMISSION BUDGET SUMMARY
Mission Statement
To foster excellence, diversity, vitality, understanding, and
accessibility of the arts in the County of Los Angeles. The Arts
Commission provides leadership in cultural services for the
County, including information and resources for the
community, artists, educators, arts organizations, and
municipalities.
2011-12 Budget Message
The 2011-12 Recommended Budget reflects a net County cost
decrease of $997,000 primarily due to the deletion of one-time
funding for the Organizational Grant Program, Arts Internship
Program and the Holiday Celebration, partially offset by
Board-approved increases in salaries and employee benefits.
Critical/Strategic Planning Initiatives
■ Implement a number of new measures to address the fiscal
challenges of the recession by developing new technical
assistance services for constituents, including improving
reporting instruments for the Organizational Grant Program to
assist grantees with evaluating their programs while enabling
the collection of data more relevant to the Board of
Supervisors (Board).
■ Implement the Create/Cultivate Initiative utilizing grants from
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Productivity
Investment Fund that will enable arts organizations to
increase funds from external sources to commission new art
works.
ARTS COMMISSION
Budget Summaries
FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2011-12 CHANGE FROM
CLASSIFICATION ACTUAL ESTIMATED BUDGET REQUESTED RECOMMENDED BUDGET
FINANCING USES
SERVICES & SUPPLIES $ 9,598,799.99 $ 9,316,000 $ 9,316,000 $ 9,794,000 $ 7,460,000 $ (1,856,000)
GROSS TOTAL $ 9,598,799.99 $ 9,316,000 $ 9,316,000 $ 9,794,000 $ 7,460,000 $ (1,856,000)
INTRAFUND TRANSFERS (300,000.00) (200,000) (200,000) (200,000) (200,000) 0
NET TOTAL $ 9,298,799.99 $ 9,116,000 $ 9,116,000 $ 9,594,000 $ 7,260,000 $ (1,856,000)
REVENUE 1,637,759.14 1,639,000 1,639,000 1,047,000 780,000 (859,000)
NET COUNTY COST $ 7,661,040.85 $ 7,477,000 $ 7,477,000 $ 8,547,000 $ 6,480,000 $ (997,000)
FUND FUNCTION ACTIVITY
GENERAL FUND RECREATION & CULTURAL
SERVICES
CULTURAL SERVICES
■ Continue a multi-year initiative to implement the Board
adopted Arts for All, a comprehensive strategic plan for
systemic, sequential K-12 arts education in all 81 school
districts in the County encompassing 1.7 million students,
including the expansion of the countywide administrative
credential program for principals to include arts education.
■ Begin implementation of the Master Plan for the current and
future facilities of the John Anson Ford Theatres to improve
parking, traffic flow, and visibility, and upgrade the outdoor
amphitheatre while preserving the historic elements of the
theatre and surrounding buildings and incorporating
environmentally sustainable technology.
■ Continue to oversee the provision of professional technical
and production services for the Department of Parks and
Recreation’s Parks After Dark concert series, part of the
County’s antigang initiative.
■ Implement a preplanning process for new civic art projects,
prior to convening the Project Coordination Committee, to
determine the preferred approach to civic art with input from
the Chief Executive Office Capital Projects staff and the
appropriate County departments and Board offices. Improve
the Project Coordination Committee component of the Civic
Art process to address the unique parameters for each capital
project that includes civic art and develop an evaluation
process to solicit input and feedback on the civic art selection
and project development process from each Project
Coordination Committee.
FY 2011-12 Recommended Budget Volume One 5.1 County of Los Angeles