Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer
Some cities have been able to do more by broadening their arts funding through alternative revenue-raising devices.
Columbus, Ohio, raises $1.74 million annually for the Greater Columbus Arts Council by committing one- quarter of its 6 percent hotel-motel tax to the arts, said Ray Hanley, executive director of the council.
Sacramento, Calif., trying to establish a 15-block Downtown Cultural District to reach its goal of a 16-hour downtown, requires developers using public money to commit 2 percent of project costs to an art fund that is used to create murals and sculpture for public display and to help fund some …
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