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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is responsible for sustaining and promoting the cultural quality of life throughout the City. DCA achieves these goals by administering a variety of financial, legal, capital construction, and managerial support services while monitoring functions essential to promoting efficient operations at the 34 City cultural institutions. The City cultural institutions include world-renowned organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the New York Botanical Garden, The City’s institutions also include prominent regional institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Hall of Science, the Staten Island Zoological Society, Queens Theater in the Park, Wave Hill, El Museo del Barrio, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Furthermore, DCA supports Capital construction and improvement projects at other distinguished cultural institutions, such as the Morgan Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, / / / ' ’

' ! / DCA is also instrumental in supporting arts organizations and cultural activities in all five boroughs through a variety of grants and support services, DCA provides grants to over 450 arts-related organizations citywide, with recipients as diverse as the New York Philharmonic, Coney Island USa, the Museum of Television and Radio, the Tibetan Museum, Bargemusic, Black Spectrum Theater Company, Bronx Choral Society, Hospital Audiences, African Poetry Theatre, the Jewish Museum, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the International Center of Photography, Jazzmobile, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Finally, DCA administers a citywide Cultural Challenge Program that awards operating fund,s to cultural institutions and arts-related organizations. The Cultural Challenge Program bolsters the award recipients’ programmatic capabilities and financial security by requiring them to leverage private matching funds.

Financial Review

The Department of Cultural Affairs 2002 Executive Budget provides for operating expenses, including energy costs, of $103.1 million, a decrease of $29.4 million from the 2001 forecast. It also provides for City funded capital commitments of $176.9 million in 2002.

Expense Budget Highlights , ' ; ■ , ' i

Budgetary Priorities; Providing Core Services 1

/j • the iCity’s 34 cultural institutions will receive operating support of $91.2 million, including energy I subsidies. , i • the Executive Budget allocates $5 million as a City funds match for the Cultural Challenge Program.

• various cultural organizations citywide will receive program grants totaling $4.1 million.

i • the Executive Budget contains $2.9 million in operating funds for the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Restructuring and Public/Private Competition

' • the City subsidy to the 34 cultural institutions will be reduced by $8.5 million from the 2001 Adopted Budget. \ \

• the City allocation to cultural programs will be reduced in 2002 by $14.8 million from the 2001 Adopted Budget.;

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