Utah Cultural Advocacy Alliance Grade: C (75%)
- Candidate Name: Zach Jacob
- Your Municipality: West Jordan
- Elected office for which you are running: Mayor
Question 1: Should government be involved in funding the arts and humanities?
Depends
Question 2: Have you had a personal experience with arts, culture, or humanities that have had an impact on your life?
Yes
3b // Optional, explain your experience.
I met some of my best friends for life while volunteering for stage crew for a church-produced play when I was 15.
Question 3: Do you support public funding for city and county arts councils who then re-grant that money to local arts and humanities organizations?
Yes
3b // Optional, explain why or why not.
Question 4: Do you support Percent for Art programs, which designate 1% of public building costs for public art that are included within that building? Currently, only 8 Utah municipalities have such a program.
Depends (explain in the next question)
4b // Optional, explain why or why not.
I'm not familiar enough with the programs to state definitively yes or no.
Question 5: Do you support having a Percent-for-Art program in your own municipality?
Depends (explain in the next question)
5b // Optional, explain why or why not.
See #4
Question 6: Do you consider the arts and cultural sector an economic driver in Utah?
Yes
6b // Optional, explain why or why not.
Bottom line: People do spend money to see concerts, plays, movies, etc.
Question 7: 32 municipalities have a RAP (recreation, arts, and parks) type tax to help support cultural organizations in their communities. Would you support a RAP type tax such as this in your own municipality? If your municipality already has such a local option sales RAP-type sales tax and you support it, answer yes.
Depends (explain in the next question)
7b // Optional, explain your experience.
It would have to be well-defined, and operated as an enterprise fund so that it could not be raided by general fund needs.
Question 8: Municipalities can facilitate partnerships between cultural organizations and the local tourism sector to boost the local economy. Do you support this? Optional, explain why or why not.
Yes
8b // Optional, explain why or why not.
Question 9: Municipal governments can create Cultural Districts - with or without tax incentives. Governments sometimes fund these via bed or tourism taxes within the Cultural District boundaries, but it can be done within municipal budgets fairly cheaply. Is this something you would support?
Yes
9b // Optional, explain why or why not.
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