Cluj-Napoca City Hall allocates around 10 million lei annually for culture and youth projects. All of us in the cultural operators' guild are familiar with the problem of granting local non-reimbursable funding for cultural projects: (1) the evaluation committee is not made up of specialists (2) the decisions taken by this committee cannot be contested on the content but only the registration procedure when the file is received; (3) the law on the basis of which the City Council grants these funds is obsolete, the legislation having been much improved in the meantime to ensure a more transparent and predictable framework for funding cultural projects.
Representatives of the local cultural operators' guild have repeatedly called for the updating of the regulation on the allocation of cultural funding and the transition to the correct legal framework provided by GEO 51/1998.

Alexandra Oană, a local councillor, has recently drafted a proposal for a culture funding regulation on OUG51. Together with her, Laura Panait, Miki Braniste, Szakáts István and the whole Independent Group for Culture (GICu/ FiKuSz) we invite the actors of the local cultural scene (and not only) to a working meeting on the occasion of the first public presentation of the proposed regulation.

It is essential that this meeting takes place as soon as possible and with as many actors of the local cultural scene as possible in order to help the process with as many improvements/completions/appropriations as possible and to be able to send the proposed regulation to the circuit of endorsement (hopefully) in time for it to enter into force before the approval of the next annual budget (in early February).

𝐖𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝟐𝟖 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐢𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞!