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Published on: 6/6/2007
Last Visited: 6/7/2007
Denver City Council President Michael Hancock is blasting the process used to determine which cultural facilities get funding as recommended by the Infrastructure Priorities Task Force.
Hancock said facilities such as the Boettcher Concert Hall and Denver Botanic Gardens would be funded at the level they request because their supporters - usually middle- to upper-class people - are more likely to vote.
But the Denver Public Library, which he said serves working families, stay-at-home moms and people who can't afford to shop at Borders, would get only one-third of the money it requested under the task force recommendation.
"That's real disturbing to me, which means I have a long way to go before I can support something like this," he said Tuesday at a council committee meeting."The information is . . . quite frankly, unfair to some very key folks.Or, I should say, a major part of our population," he added.
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After the meeting, Hancock said he supports all cultural facilities but he wants equity.