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Taxing, Taxing, Toronto
Enacting the Beautiful City Billboard Fee
CNW
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Enacting the Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF)through the new revenue tools (currently under public review) would see sixmillion dollars would go to public art in Toronto.
Funds would be gathered from an annual license fee, paid by billboardadvertisers and be directed though the Toronto Arts Council into public art -with a priority put on marginalized communities and youth art. According to aPollara poll, only 15% of Torontonians are against such a fee.
Objectives of the BCBF include:
Endorsed by: 411 Initiative for Change; Arts & Contemporary StudiesStudent Union; Artsvote; Centre for Integral Economics; Digital Propaganda;Earwaks.com; Grassroots Youth Collaborative; Illegalsigns.ca; Kate HendersonIntellectual Property & Trademark; Lotus Leaf Communications; Manifesto; MuralRoutes; nataliagrosner.com; PressPause; Regent Park Focus Youth Media ArtsCentre; Rhythmicru; Spacing Magazine; Style in Progress; The Remix Project;The Gladstone Hotel, The Faculty Of, them.ca, Toronto Arts Council Foundation,Toronto Youth Cabinet, UrbanArts & Youth Action Network
More info: http://bcbf.them.ca
