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| Author: | doowoppie [ Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Happenings in Virginia |
Hi All Bit of Information that will interest Preservationist. VAM LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Virginia Association of Museums February 28, 2005 SESSION WRAP-UP From: "Margo Carlock" <mcarlock@vamuseums.org> Session Ends The 2005 General Assembly session formally adjourned on Sunday, February 27 one day late. There was a delay in finalizing the revised biennium budget, with disagreement over funding of the Virginia Horse Center and a new tunnel under the Capitol grounds forcing the one-day extension. ... The increase in budget revenue allowed the General Assembly to be more generous with nonstate agency organizations, including museums, then in the past few years. Total nonstate agency funding amounted to $30,644,749. Below are those amounts for cultural organizations, which made up the bulk of these grants: ... Beaverdam Heritage Days Foundation 25,000 ... Fairfax Station Railroad Museum 7,500 ... Friends of the Fairfax Station 17,500 ... Lee Hall Train Depot 50,000 .. Railroad Museum Chatham(Pittsylvania Hist.Soc,) 12,500 Railroad Museum of Virginia 300,000 ... Trevillian Station Battlefield Foundation 25,000 ... Virginia Museum of Transportation 225,000 Bills of Interest Passed ... HB 2079 Historic Preservation & Museum Assistance Grant Program & Fund Patron Van Landingham Creates the Historic Preservation and Museum Assistance Grant Program and Fund within the Department of Historic Resources. The source of funding for the Fund will be from gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds as may be appropriated. The Program will administer the Fund in order to provide grants to nonprofit organizations, localities, business entities, and individuals for the purpose of i)acquiring, rehabilitating, restoring, or interpreting historic properties; ii)financing costs and specifications, and architectural, engineering or other special services; or iii)funding historic preservation education and promotion, including the research, survey, and evaluation of historic properties and the preparation of historic preservation planning documents and educational materials. ... HB 2803 Abandoned Loans to Museums Patron Clifford L. Athey, Jr. Allows property given to a museum where, in effect, it has been abandoned, to be discarded or transferred to another Virginia museum; however such property may not be sold by the recipient museum for a period of three years. ===== Dr. Frank R. Scheer, Curator Railway Mail Service Library, Inc. f_scheer@yahoo.com (202) 268-2121 - weekday office (540) 837-9090 - weekend afternoons in the former N&W station on VA rte 723 117 East Main Street Boyce VA 22620-9639 Andrew Martin |
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| Author: | Benjamin True [ Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Happenings in Virginia |
Any body know what the "Railroad Museum of Virginia" is? |
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