HOUSE BILL NO. 9
INTRODUCED BY D. KASTEN
AN ACT ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC PROJECT GRANT AWARDS; APPROPRIATING GENERAL FUND AND OTHER MONEY FOR CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC GRANTS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Appropriation of cultural and aesthetic grant funds -- priority of disbursement. (1) The Montana arts council shall award grants for projects authorized by and limited to the amounts appropriated by [section 2] and this section. Money must be disbursed in priority order, first to projects covered under subsection (3) and second to the projects listed in [section 2].
(2) The Montana arts council shall disburse money to projects authorized by [section 2] through grant contracts between the Montana arts council and the grant recipient.
(3) There is appropriated from the cultural and aesthetic projects account to the Montana historical society $15,000 for the biennium ending July 1, 2003, for care and conservation of capitol complex artwork. This appropriation is recommended to be repeated for one additional biennium and also to be reviewed in fiscal year 2003 to determine if it should continue in the 2005 biennium and future bienniums.
Section 2. Appropriation of general fund and cultural and aesthetic grant funds. (1) There is appropriated $300,000 of general fund money in fiscal year 2002 and $223,575 of general fund money in fiscal year 2003 to the Montana arts council for the projects approved in this section. The general fund appropriation is a continuing appropriation for the biennium.
(2) The following projects are approved and amounts are appropriated to the Montana arts council for the biennium ending June 30, 2003, from the cultural and aesthetic projects account first and the general fund last:
(a) Category 1 - Special Projects $4,500 or Less:
Grantee Amount
Montana Storytelling Roundup $4,500
Council for the Arts, Lincoln 2,500
Miles City Preservation Commission 4,000
Montana Oral History Association 4,000
All Nations Pishkun Association 3,000
Swan Ecosystem Center 2,800
(b) Category 2 - Special Projects:
Montana Committee for the Humanities 32,000
VIAS, Inc. 22,000
Glacier Orchestra & Chorale 22,000
MCT, Missoula Children's Theatre 10,000
KUFM-TV 11,000
Bozeman Symphony 10,000
Hockaday Museum of Art 15,000
Miles Community College 6,000
Valley County Coalition 12,000
Montana Repertory Theatre 20,000
Missoula Symphony Association 5,000
Montana Arts 20,000
Montana Historical Society 20,000
Montana Performing Arts Consortium 20,000
Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater 7,000
Lewistown Art Center 8,000
Museum of the Rockies 10,000
Southwest Montana Arts Council 10,000
Montana Alliance for Arts Education 10,000
VSA of Montana 7,000
Madison Valley Cultural Corp. 4,000
Artslink, College of Arts & Architecture, MSU 5,000
Mineral Museum 5,000
(c) Category 3 - Operational Support:
Western Heritage Center 14,000
Montana Art Gallery Directors Association 25,000
Writer's Voice (Billings YMCA) 25,000
Custer County Art Center 22,000
Carbon County Historical Society 16,000
Art Museum of Missoula 20,000
Shakespeare in the Parks 18,000
Billings Symphony Society 20,000
Alberta Bair Theater 18,000
Montana Dance Arts Association 5,000
Great Falls Symphony Association 12,000
Butte Center for the Performing Arts 20,000
Fort Peck Community College 15,000
Schoolhouse History and Art Center 20,000
Young Audiences of Western Montana 10,000
Holter Museum of Art 10,000
Montana Agricultural Center & Museum 12,000
Archie Bray Foundation 15,000
Butte Symphony Association 15,000
Growth Thru Art Inc. 20,000
Vigilante Theatre Company 18,000
Helena Symphony Association 12,000
Big Horn Arts & Crafts Assoc./Jailhouse Gallery 10,000
Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras 15,000
Montana Transport Company 12,000
Yellowstone Art Museum 20,000
Whitefish Theatre Company 10,000
Montana Ballet Company 10,000
Livingston Depot Foundation 15,000
Yellowstone Ballet Company 6,000
Artist Group, The 1,600
(d) Category 4 - Capital Expenditures:
Cascade County Historical Society 20,000
Billings Preservation Society 20,000
Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives 20,000
Belt Public Library 16,500
Arlee Historical Society 1,655
Fort Peck Fine Arts Council 16,000
Daly Mansion 20,000
Paris Gibson Square 5,000
Liberty Village Arts Center 2,775
Tobacco Valley Improvement Assoc. Board of Art 18,000
Bitterroot Community Band 6,000
Great Falls Civic Center 6,800
Section 3. Reversion of granted money. On July 1, 2003, the unencumbered balance of the 2003 biennium grants revert to the cultural and aesthetic projects account provided for in 15-35-108 and the unencumbered balance of the general fund reverts to the general fund.
Section 4. Reduction of grants. Except as provided in [section 1(3)], if money in the cultural and aesthetic projects account is insufficient to fund projects at the appropriation levels contained in [section 2], reductions to all projects will be made on a pro rata basis.
Section 5. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2001.
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