Proposed Cuts Would Hit LA’s Libraries, Arts Agencies Hard

“L.A. County’s three biggest government-supported cultural institutions figure to reap $60 million in taxpayer funding for the coming 2009-10 fiscal year, their subsidies holding up well despite falling property values and other recession-spurred declines in tax receipts that are draining public coffers. Public libraries and municipal arts agencies didn’t fare as well” in recent proposals, which call for significant cuts.