Please Continue To Work The Iowa Legislators for the IFO

Encouraging stuff - Iowa Rep. Ruth Ann Gaines wrote to say she is fully supportive of the Iowa Film Office budget recommendation by the governor. And Senator Pat Ward said she would do what she could to restore funding for the IFO. But there are still legislators who have the misconception that the Department of Cultural Affairs has enough money to fund the IFO, which is not true. The only source for funding is an allocation as outlined by Governor Branstad, which is $400,000 in his budget report. Another misconception by some legislators is that the tax incentive program is still attached to the IFO, which it is NOT. YOU in the Iowa Film Community must continue to write to Iowa legislators, or call or visit them, and urge that they all go with the governor's budget plan.