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Thank you and writer Darian Bleecher for bringing the future of arts funding to the attention of the Independent's readers [County Arts Commission Considers the Future of Arts Funding].

California Arts Advocates is working to gain legislative support for the passage of AB 2728, a bill to enhance arts funding without increasing taxes. Introduced by Assembly Member Betty Karnette (D-Long Beach) and co-authored by Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco), AB 2728 would require 20% of the state's General Fund sales and use tax revenue generated by the sales of arts-related items to be transferred to the California Arts Council (CAC), when the state has achieved an ongoing structural budget balance.

In fiscal year 2002-03, the CAC granted $330,958 to arts organizations in Assembly District 35, now served by Assembly Member Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara); last year the CAC granted $36,400. California is entering its fifth year spending three cents per capita on the arts and continues to be the last in the nation in state spending.

AB 2728 will soon go to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where Assembly Members Nava, Karnette and Ma are members. We urge your readers to contact Mr. Nava and ask him to commit today to invest in the arts when California can afford it by co-authoring AB 2728 and voting aye when it is before his committee.

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