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<br />Alcala, Abigail <br />From:Bryan Chang <bchang@dancemusicinitiative.org> <br />Sent:Friday, May 17, 2024 6:23 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Fwd: Arts Funding - Item 30 Fiscal Year 2024-25 Budget Work Study Session <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Greetings city council, <br /> <br />I would like to express my gratitude after attending yesterday's council meeting. Regarding arts funding, we felt <br />heard and supported. The council asked great questions and I look forward to how things develop. <br /> <br />This was the first city council meeting that I've attended and it was eye opening and refreshing. I think the <br />general public can easily get disillusioned and apathetic with government given today's economic struggles for <br />the average person. I was inspired to see a tightly run ship, with passionate, intelligent, well-spoken leaders at <br />the helm asking the difficult questions and championing public benefit. This solidifies exactly why we bring our <br />programs to Santa Ana. The community and its leaders are exactly the kind of people that we want to serve. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br />Bryan <br /> <br />---------- Forwarded message --------- <br />From: Bryan Chang <bchang@dancemusicinitiative.org> <br />Date: Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:48 PM <br />Subject: Arts Funding - Item 30 Fiscal Year 2024-25 Budget Work Study Session <br />To: eComment@santa-ana.org <eComment@santa-ana.org> <br /> <br />Greetings mayor and city council, <br /> <br />My name is Bryan Chang and I am the Executive Director for an arts education nonprofit. We host free DJing <br />lessons that are open to the public in Santa Ana on a weekly basis. We started in 2010 and have been hosting <br />them in Santa Ana for the last 2.5 years. <br /> <br />We were recently awarded a modest grant from the Arts & Culture Department of Santa Ana. The funds have <br />enabled us to offer our teaching volunteers a small stipend for their time/expertise, support the small business <br />Santa Ana restaurant that hosts our classes by purchasing food and drink for teachers and performers, vinyl <br />records for teaching, as well as infrastructural expenses. We've previously offered our programming in Irvine, <br />Costa Mesa, Tustin, Garden Grove, and Newport Beach. Santa Ana has been the first city to offer support. For <br />that we are immensely appreciative. <br /> <br />I am writing to you today to make a public comment in support of continuing this type of robust arts funding in <br />our community. I hope the Arts & Culture Department of Santa Ana can continue making these grants available <br />to arts organizations like ours. <br /> <br />I'd also like to call to attention the disparity of how Santa Ana allocates its arts funding by quantifying the <br />amount of benefit each grant dollar confers. <br />1 <br /> <br />