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   Name: Ben McCoy on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: As an artist ; married to an artist - who relies on art for our living: allocate absolutely NO tax dollars for the arts council! I would support a completely privately-funded endeavor.

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   Name: David G. Hill on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: Let the Arts Council be self-funding.

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   Name: Robert Richards on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: they pay for themself, Don't they

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   Name: Thomas Blackstone, MD on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: No tax dollars for the Arts Council.

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   Name: David Hill, MD on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: No!

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   Name: Marjorie C. Armstrong on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: The "state" grants have to go too. We are broke!!

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   Name: Annetta Jenkins on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: No one should be forced to pay for another person's pleasure.

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   Name: Mark Woodley on Feb 24, 2011

   Comments: If the ARTS COUNSIL was worth having it would NOT NEED tax dollars stripped from the poor people who work hard for their money. If the "ARTS" were worthwhile it would be SELF_SUFFICIENT and that DOES NOT MEAN PUBLIC FUNDING.

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   Name: James Branham on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: L Bass on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: NO - NO - NO ! ! !

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    Name: Alice Purvis on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: At a time likes this with so much debt on the backs of the taxpayers, many of which are out of work. This is just beyond irresponsible. Any elected official that would votes for such an enormous expenditure can expect to be voted out next election. To vote for this would only prove you are only interested in feathering your own nest and have no concern for the hard working taxpayers of this community. I for one am just sick to death of the thoughtless mandating of money in the face of such enormous debt facing all of us. What part of STOP SPENDING do you not understand?

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    Name: R. E. Smith Jr. on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Frak Fazzino on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: We are living in bad economic times, and still getting worse.. One may suggest, we need the arts.. To that I offer, my family needs to be fed. If it comes down to it, we will move to Pender, or TN.. Tax Payers, the producers will move, the takers will stay.. Then what? Riots? You see it coming.. Now is not the time to pretend we can afford everything. My family is forced to cut back just to get quick breaths of air from under water..

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    Name: Ann R. Bartlett on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Bill Murray on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Linda Dacar on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: Private funded arts council, please. Leave my tax dollars out of it!

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    Name: Lorraine McEvoy on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: We should be operating on an austerity budget. Maintaining police, firemen, roads. DUMPING ALL non-profits!!!! Not looking to give away more taxpayer money w/o their approval!!!

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    Name: Troy Rudeseal on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: Wilmington has had GWACA (Greater Wilmington Arts and Cultural Alliance) handing out grassroots monies from the State arts council for many years. Last year that organization announced its intention to officially take on the mantle of an arts council with no request for public funding. Councilwoman Padgett was asked to support them and she refused stating she wanted to bring someone in from Raleigh. If there is going to be an arts council it should be staffed by someone local who understands the needs of our community. To add insult to injury, we have been told that this position will be paid $90,000 a year. I don't know anyone in the arts who makes that kind of money and the city and county will be paying this outrageous salary while at the same time considering how to keep police and firefighters from being laid off and maintain essential services. We have a thriving arts community and giving $500,000 to pay one person $450,000 in salary in the next 5 years is bad business and reflects poorly on our elected officials. If the Arts Council would like to set up shop here in Wilmington, I say Come on. But not with tax dollars. They can pay their way like every other business and the success or failure will be based on whether or not they provide a worthwhile service that people need. The NHC commissioners and the City Council need to think long and hard about how these decisions will reflect on you in the next election cycle. I am an artist and arts supporter but, this is a time for fiscal responsibility. There are many worthwhile arts organizations that survive here in Wilmington and when they don't do well, it is their own fault. If a theater company does a show that people don't want to see, they suffer and have to reconsider the types of productions that their audience wants. The public does not want this and I am afraid there will be very negative backlash for the city council and NHC commissioners if this goes through. We are in a budget shortfa ll of millions of dollars and I don’t see how this idea is even being entertained at this time. I know anyone who votes yes on this is not getting my vote in the next election.

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    Name: Joe Rumsey on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Frank Kluttz on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: NO to Arts Council

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    Name: Mary Kay Mason on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: Enough is enough! No more spending on what we can not afford and should be privately funded!!! WE ARE BANKRUPT! CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Mary Kay Mason

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    Name: Robert Dempster on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Michael Johnston on Feb 24, 2011

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    Name: Edward Peabody on Feb 24, 2011

    Comments: The Arts should be self funded by the artworld itself.NOT THE TAXPAYER !!!

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    Name: Lynn Cadagin on Feb 25, 2011

    Comments: This is just another government funded burocracy. I am an artist and I do not look to the government to fund me. The arts are a free expression and people are free to support the type of art they want. In this era of tight budgets, both personal and public, we certainly do not need to add to the burden.

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    Name: Earl Grover on Feb 25, 2011

    Comments: You wanna art council? That is great...but don't expect me to support it. Raise your own money but don't force me to help you!

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    Name: Clay Ritter on Feb 25, 2011

    Comments: private funded - YES - public - NO - we have no money!

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    Name: Francis J Casieri on Feb 25, 2011

    Comments: I support a privately funded arts council; I do not support using tax dollars for art and artistic endeavors.

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    Name: Eric Canup on Feb 25, 2011

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    Name: Gary O'Malley on Feb 25, 2011

    Comments: No to tax funded arts council. If it is viable it will get private support. We don't have the money.

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    Name: Carol Ryan on Feb 25, 2011

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    Name: William C Snyder on Feb 26, 2011

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    Name: KT Borland on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: I am an artist and I support a VOLUNTEER Art's Council!No TAXPAYER $ to this usurption of our freedom and liberty! I have volunteered in many organizations here(21yrs) with no compensation and didn't WANT any,let's STOP OUT OF CONTROLL GOV SPENDING!!!!! Also as they say"all politics is local"if we can't stop it here where Can we stop it????

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    Name: Pam Robbins on Feb 26, 2011

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    Name: Stephen Henson on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: We do not have surpurfolous dollars for this. Please be responses ble with our tax dollars.'

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    Name: Teresa Morgan on Feb 26, 2011

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    Name: Sandra Chapman on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: We, as taxpayers and citizens of this community, proclaim our support for art and artistic endeavor when the freedom of participation is as freely available as the freedom to not participate. We support a privately-funded arts council - but we hereby announce our opposition to any taxpayer funds being allocated for this purpose. Our votes at election time will reflect negatively on any elected official that supports using our tax dollars for this purpose.

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    Name: Al Solana on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: government needs to get back to basics and be efficient and less taxing in order to survive without crisis . bigger government and programs opens door to corruption. more taxes drive the productive people out of the community.

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    Name: Wayne Cole on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: To pay the leader of the arts council $450,000 while taking $500,000 from the tax payers is, to put it nicely, a money laundering scheme.

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    Name: Jim Little on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: No taxpayer funded arts council!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Name: John Voight on Feb 26, 2011

    Comments: I hope we can stop this.

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    Name: Bettie Hamilton on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: Don Rose on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: James Loftis on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: Steve LoBue on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: Catherine D. Ledbetter on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: Dana Bradley on Feb 27, 2011

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    Name: Stephen Smith on Feb 28, 2011

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    Name: ERIC MURRAY on Feb 28, 2011

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    Name: James Bass Jr on Feb 28, 2011

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