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HOUSE BILL NO. 9

INTRODUCED BY D. KASTEN

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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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