{"id":153,"date":"2007-03-09T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/03\/09\/new-legislation-would-help-artscenter\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T07:23:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:23:15","slug":"new-legislation-would-help-artscenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/03\/new-legislation-would-help-artscenter\/","title":{"rendered":"New legislation would help ArtsCenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/gascripts\/members\/viewMember.pl?sChamber=Senate&amp;nUserID=8\">Senator Ellie Kinnaird<\/a> has filed a bill to help the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscenterlive.org\/\">ArtsCenter<\/a> kickstart planning and design for its new facility. The bill (SB656) would direct $100,000 to help plan a major capital campaign and start the programing and schematics on the new center. You can track the progress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/gascripts\/BillLookUp\/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&amp;BillID=S656&amp;submitButton=Go\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the text:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"aBase\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">A BILL TO BE ENTITLED<\/p>\n<p class=\"aLongTitle\"><span>AN ACT TO appropriate funds to design and ORGANIZE a major Capital campaign to construct a new multiDisciplinary FACILITY TO REPLACE the artscenter in the town of CARRBORO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"aMargin2\">Whereas, the ArtsCenter in Carrboro has been a valuable artistic resource for more than 25 years; and<\/p>\n<p class=\"aMargin2\">Whereas, the ArtsCenter provides the surrounding community with art classes, concerts, theater, children and family programming, and art exhibits; and<\/p>\n<p class=\"aMargin2\">Whereas, the ArtsCenter attracts more than 50,000 patrons each year, who visit local restaurants and businesses and thereby provide a significant contribution to the area&#8217;s economy; and<\/p>\n<p class=\"aMargin2\">Whereas, the ArtsCenter is preparing for a capital campaign to raise funds to construct a new facility for its expanding programming and to play an integral part in the redevelopment plan for downtown Carrboro; Now, therefore,<\/p>\n<p class=\"aBase\">The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"aBillSection\"><strong>SECTION 1.<\/strong>  There is appropriated from the General Fund to The ArtsCenter, Inc., a nonprofit organization, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2007\u00e2\u20ac\u20182008 fiscal year to lay the foundation for a successful capital campaign. The sum will be applied toward the following projects:<\/p>\n<p class=\"aBlock1\">(1)       Recruitment and hiring of professional development consultants to plan fund-raising efforts for a new facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aBlock1\">(2)       Program development and schematic design of a new facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aBillSection\"><strong>SECTION 2.<\/strong>  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ellie Kinnaird has filed a bill to help the ArtsCenter kickstart planning and design for its new facility. The bill (SB656) would direct $100,000 to help plan a major capital campaign and start the programing and schematics on the new center. You can track the progress here. Here&#8217;s the text: A BILL TO BE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}