While the CRT was set up by the county,
it operates as a completely separate, non-gov- ernmental entity and does not receive taxpayer money. The CRT contracts with the county for the performance of day-to-day administrative tasks. While the CRT’s potential is great, a lack
of new bonding projects has put the trust in a holding pattern. The trust still has more than $500,000, but it is not rushing to give it away until it has established specific guidelines and application procedures. Given the needs in the arts community, Primo knows this money could be given out in short order. “We have to be careful now with what
we have in our coffers because we certainly don’t want to just willy-nilly give out grants and maybe not have anything {left at all},” Primo said. Because of this, CRT trustees in July placed a moratorium on taking new grant applications. It will stay in effect until they are able to adopt guidelines for grant-giving. “It gets into a philosophical debate,” Dadey
said. “Do we want to give a couple hundred dollars to every little festival that goes on in this community or do we want to have
a bigger impact and be involved in larger projects of major cultural institutions like the MOST, the symphony, the opera, the Everson Museum, those types of organizations? Where can we have the greatest impact in the cultural community?” In an attempt to resolve this debate, the
board is measuring outcomes of the first round of grants. Seeing which grants worked and which grants didn’t will go a long way to shaping the CRT’s future. For Fisher, the importance of the CRT
comes down to a matter of action over apathy. “Are we sitting around and letting the arts and cultural sector wither on the vine or are we try- ing to bring some new resources to bear?” Anyone interested in applying for CRT
funds needs to visit
www.syracusecentral.com/ business_resources/
crt.htm.
Seth Sommerfeld majored in journalism
and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. A native of Montana, he is interested in music and popular culture. He maintains his own music website:
www.longlivethealbum.com.
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