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Leon County commission must consider the public trust factor | Opinion
The public has every right to ask hard questions here. Why dismantle or weaken a remarkably successful community arts organization?
Leon County’s potential withdrawal of funding from COCA raises a deeply troubling question: Who benefits if the public resources and influence historically entrusted to community arts are shifted toward the Tourist Development Council and tourism-driven priorities?
It certainly will not be the children whose lives have been transformed through arts education. It will not be local artists struggling to survive. …
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