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11/8/2018 Oakland Voters Appear to Favor State's First Vacant Property Tax, Richmond Poised to Defeat Similar Measure | The California Report | … <br />https://www.kqed.org/news/11702378/oakland-voters-appear-to-favor-states-first-vacant-property-tax-richmond-poised-to-defeat-similar-measure 8/11 <br />growing number of areas in the city to have received official designation as <br />locations of distinct cultural identity and importance. <br />"What this really does is it helps build capacity for cultural districts by <br />guaranteeing a stable source of funding so that the core needs of the district can <br />be met: The rent can be paid, staff can be hired and the work of the district can <br />truly begin." <br />Proposition E isn't a brand-new piece of legislation. Rather, it restores an <br />allocation originally created in 1961 to support the city’s cultural industries. The <br />move turned San Francisco into an arts and culture-funding trailblazer for <br />several decades. <br />"It will mean that San Francisco can resume pride of place as a national <br />model for enlightened arts support." <br />— Kary Schulman, director of Grants for the Arts <br />But starting in the early 2000s, owing to financial issues, the city gradually <br />reduced the hotel tax funding allocation for the arts, ultimately repealing <br />specific allocations altogether in 2013. <br />A couple of years ago, a coalition of more than 30 arts and homeless service <br />organizations came together to try to restore the hotel tax funding allocation in <br />a joint measure. But that bid — Proposition S — failed to attract the necessary <br />support from voters in the November 2016 election. <br />This election, more than 100 cultural organizations across the city of all scopes <br />and sizes united to spread the word about Proposition E. And unlike <br />Proposition S, the new measure garnered the support of the city's entire Board <br />of Supervisors. <br />SPONSORED BY