{"id":2065,"date":"2009-03-05T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:32:51","slug":"oregon-cultural-trust-raided-for-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/05\/oregon-cultural-trust-raided-for-18-million\/","title":{"rendered":"oregon cultural trust raided for $1.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oregon legislature passed the budget bill that would skim money from many of the state’s non-general fund assets in order to try and balance the budget.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Hicks has an excellent recap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s one of the bone-headed decisions that will haunt us for years to come.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, when Oregon Symphony president Elaine Calder was asked why the orchestra’s endowment couldn’t be raided to balance our budget, she pointed out that that money was given for very specific purposes by the donors, and if the orchestra were to play footsy with that money [my term], then the orchestra would lose the trust of its donors, and it would make raising money in future endowment fund drives a very difficult proposition indeed.<\/p>\n

So who will give money to the OCT now?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll think long and hard before I do.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a great idea, but perhaps it should be taken private so the state can keep its mitts off of this desperately needed funding source.<\/p>\n

And yes, Senator Mararet Carter<\/a>, I am one of those “whiners”.\u00c2\u00a0 And damn proud of it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oregon legislature passed the budget bill that would skim money from many of the state’s non-general fund assets in order to try and balance the budget.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Hicks has an excellent recap here. It’s one of the bone-headed decisions that will haunt us for years to come.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, when Oregon Symphony president Elaine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1294,103,61,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fundraising","category-oregon","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":577,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/09\/phoenix-symphony-lessons-for-oregon\/","url_meta":{"origin":2065,"position":0},"title":"phoenix symphony – lessons for oregon?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in the Arizona Republic appeared today about the Phoenix Symphony and their slow recovery from the edge of the abyss a few years ago (ultimately, the players had to take a substantial pay cut to keep the orchestra solvent, nearly going on strike before settling). 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