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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 583

Short Title:  Arts Center Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Insko.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 24, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST THE ARTS CENTER IN THE TOWN OF CARRBORO WITH FACILITY REPAIRS.
Whereas, The Arts Center, centrally located in Carrboro, North Carolina, provides documented service to over 61 of the 100 North Carolina counties; and
Whereas, The Arts Center is a nonprofit organization and has been providing service in North Carolina since 1976; and
Whereas, The Arts Center serves over 50,000 adults and children each year at its Carrboro site and an additional 50,000 in outreach programs; and
Whereas, The Arts Center receives less than 3% of its support from State funding through the North Carolina Arts Council; and
Whereas, The Arts Center is in need of facility repairs and upgrades in technological systems in order to continue to provide the highest quality programs possible; and
Whereas, The Arts Center is a site for the North Carolina premier of plays and North Carolina theater companies; and
Whereas, The Arts Center serves as an incubator for new works by North Carolina artists; and
Whereas, The Arts Center is listed in the national Top 100 Art Towns in the USA; and
Whereas, 75% of the artists presented at The Arts Center are North Carolina artists; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to The Arts Center, a nonprofit corporation, the sum of one hundred seventy-eight thousand seven hundred dollars ($178,700) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year for repairs and upgrades to its facility and technology systems.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.