(Fwd) Fw: [BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? CAP C

[Jim Harding]

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Date sent:      	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:40:26 -0700
From:           	Tracy Calogheros <tracy@theexplorationplace.com>
Subject:        	Fw: [BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? CAP Cuts Impact?

Info for the listserve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Amanda Tisseur 
To: Tracy Calogheros 
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? 
CAP Cuts
Impact?


Tracy, 
Here is the requested info.  I'm not on the BMCA-L or MBEN, so can 
you
please forward it for me? Please add your thoughts on the impact of
the loss of summer student funding on us (#6). Thanks.

1.  The Exploration Place did receive student placements in summer
2006.

2.  New Media Instructor, 16 weeks; Outdoor Education Instructor, 16
weeks; 2 Science Alliance Instructors, 16 weeks; Assistant Archivist,
12 weeks; Science Alliance Instructor, 17 weeks; Gallery Interpreter,
6 weeks.

3.  We received 7 out of 14 requested positions.

4. We received funding under Summer Career Placement, Young 
Canada
Works in Heritage Institutions (CMA & CCA) and  Summer Work 
Student
Exchange

5. The value of our 2006 youth employment agreements totalled 
$30,233.

6. -Reduced quality of summer programming 
-Potential for the cancellation of a number of summer programs
-Reduced ability to conduct archival research and development tasks
leading to future public exhibits -Overwork and burnout of existing
fulltime staff attempting to maintain programs while understaffed
-Reduced customer service to increased summer traffic in our galleries

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tracy Calogheros 
  To: Amanda Tisseur 
  Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:49 AM
  Subject: Fw: [BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? 
CAP Cuts
  Impact?


  Can you supply the answers to this for the BCMA?
  Thanks!
  Tracy

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Harding 
  To: bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca 
  Cc: broadcast@museumsassn.bc.ca 
  Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:16 AM
  Subject: [BCMA MBEN] Cuts to Youth Employment Programs? CAP 
Cuts
  Impact?


  Hello Members & Subscribers;


  The dominos continue to fall as a result of the federal funding cuts
  September 26...and BCMA is trying to keep the consequences front 
and
  centre before our MP's...


  BCMA has been compiling data on the impact of cuts to youth
  employment programs in terms of real numbers, as we believe these 
to
  be far more grave and wider reaching, especially for small museums,
  than the cutbacks to MAP--which funded 30 BC institutions in 2003-
04
  and only 21 in 2004-05, (2005-06 figures not posted yet by Canadian
  Heritage).


  "Due to the Privacy Act", as cited by the department of Human
  Resources and Social Development Canada, BCMA cannot obtain a
  central list of all BC museums and art galleries that sponsored
  Summer Career Placement students over spring and summer 2006.

  Instead, we have to obtain individual riding-by-riding lists of
  program clients from BC MP's (now in progress), because MP's are
  required to sign-off on all federal-client agreements.

  Therefore, we are asking BC museums and art galleries to quickly
  respond to BCMA-L or MBEN ("members only" dedicated listeserv) 
with
  the following information ASAP:

  1. Did your institution receive student placements this spring
  and/or summer? (Institution Name?)

  2. How many? Job Title(s)? For how long (number of weeks)?

  3. Did you receive all positions you applied for? (ie. 3 of 4, etc)

  4. Under what federal program? (ie. Summer Career Placement, 
Young
  Canada Works? Other-please identify?)

  5. What was the $$$-value of your 2006 youth employment 
agreement?

  6. Please list in point form how NOT having access to these, or
  similar youth employment programs, will have an impact on your
  institution:




  ALSO: This week, CBC Radio 1 carried stories concerning cutbacks 
to
  the Community Access Program (CAP) that assisted with the 
provision
  of internet access and regional servers to enable public internet
  access, including through such public institutions as public
  libraries, but may also affect remote access via internet, in more
  rural areas. 

  Details are still surfacing, but BCMA wants to know if your
  institution has been or may be affected (ie. regional servers) in
  the future by the loss or severe restriction of such service?

  BCMA has added a discussion about federal program cuts to our 
Annual
  General Meeting agenda for Saturday, October 21st and having the
  latest information and examples of the impacts (it's plural) is
  important to this discussion.

  Meanwhile, please keep your direct letters to your MP, Minister Oda,
  PM Harper coming. Please copy BCMA, (thanks to all of you who 
have),
  but also your MLA and mayor and council.

  Thank you! See You at Conference 2006 next week!

  --Jim

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  Jim Harding, ED
  BC Museums Association
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BC Museums Association
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