CREEPING PRIVATIZATION of BARNSDALL via De-Staffing and De-Funding!!L.A Mayoral candidates must champion Barnsdall and L.A Arts!
by Save Barnsdall on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 3:09pm
(Registration for Spring Session 2011 is Saturday morn April 2,2011)
JAC(Junior) and BAC(BarnsdallArt Center) had 8 staff early 2010 and fell to 1 by July 1,2010
1 Art Center Director NOT REPLACED
2.5 Art Instructors EARLY RETIREMENT.
2 Senior Clerks LAYED OFF/TRANSFERRED.
0.5 Art Instructor RETIRED
1 Art Instructor remains.
Consider that the Winter Session 2011 we advertised here and elsewhere
Record numbers signed up for classes.NO STAFF ADDED.
Remember Today, March 30,2011 only
1 Full time Staffer @ BAC
0 Full time @ JAC
GROSSLY UNFAIR!!
WHY??
L.A City Council and L.A Mayoral Candidates intervene NOW and stop this
CREEPING PRIVATIZATION by de-staffing of Barnsdall Facilities.
Here was the Staff situation on Barnsdall Hill in March 2010.
JAC/BAC (Junior Arts Center/Barnsdall Arts Center) 8
BGT(Barnsdall Gallery Theatre) 2
LAMAG (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) 7.5
HH (HollyHock House) 2
Today, March 30,2011 situation on Barnsdall Hill
JAC/BAC (Junior Arts Center/Barnsdall Arts Center) 1
BGT(Barnsdall Gallery Theatre) 0
LAMAG(Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) 5.5
HH (HollyHock House) 1.0
Last but not least, most of the personnel one sees working at Barnsdall are called 1070s. These part-timers have allotted hours per year and are very vulnerable to cuts. They have been there for years and do the grunt work which makes us all enjoy our park.
Tell the Mayoral candidates and L.A Mayoral candidates to increase the hours of the 1070s with benefits.
The L.A City Controller published on line L.A City salaries.
http://controller.lacity.org/index.htm
Observation:
Just 2 of top Executives of DCA who we asked to save last week(from CAO's elimination proposal) combined easily come to $250,000 minus benefits package.
Is it American or just they be immune and the low pay Barnsdall workers have the DCA Budget balanced on their backs ?
Aline Barnsdall financed and supported the gubernatorial candidacy of Upton Sinclair.
Sinclair ran the E.P.I.C campaign.End Poverty In California.
Aline Barnsdall would be making a similar call today for our friends, the Barnsdall staff.
We invite the Los Angleles Mayoral candidates please stand up for Barnsdall and advocate for Fully Staffed and Funded Barnsdall facilities.
We must STOP CREEPING PRIVATIZATION!!
The RFP crowd on the hill(yes they are here) boast they had investors in place before we were removed from the RFP list.
They bemoan the 'INEFFICIENCY' of Barnsdall and we know the Barnsdall Staff toil for meager pay , do a great thankless job.
MORE IMPORTANT you FRIENDS of 'SAVE BARNSDALL', they believe you are either
too economically strapped or too unaware to stop their machinations and manipulations.
They said we here at Save Barnsdall is 'one person , who will eventually go away', and as kicking a can down the road, they will get their Privatized Barnsdall.THEIR BOASTFUL WORDS !!
Let's show them , they made a BIG COSTLY MISTAKE, and they crossed the wrong community!!
It is not fair.
Write, e-mail, phone the Los Angeles City Councimembers and the L.A Mayor , tell them:
Re-Staff Barnsdall facilities.
Stop Staff Cuts.
Fully and Permanently Fund in Eric Garcetti's words 'The beating Heart of Hollywood' , Barnsdall.
First send off your e-mails and phone calls to all 15 City Council members and the Mayor and let them know you want Barnsdall re-staffed and Fully and Permanently Funded.Get 5 friends... to do the same. They (L.A City Council) just moved $1.5 Billion CRA funds avoid Governor Brown's reach of which they gave $ 52 million to Eli Broad. According to City Controller Wendy Greul as of October 2010, there was still $400 million untapped of ARRA(Obama stimulus) funds for L.A. Finally we saw a document approved by Council President Eric Garcetti for Sunset Junction to tune of $1.5 million (LAND). Do your research guys. Tell us. Sunset Junction is say a weekend. Let's be generous and say a long 4 day weekend. If we are mistaken, will some body tell us Something. We just need a little cash to Fund Barnsdall facilities and staff!! Stop balancing DCA budget on backs on part-time 1070s and Barnsdall staff while you all enjoy 6 figures. It's obscene!! We want ACTION NOW!!
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