Statistique en bref – Numéro 26, février 2007 (version anglaise)

on 26 / february 071statistiques en brefObservatoire de la culture et des communications du QuébecTHE CULTURAL EXPENDITURES OF MUNICIPALITIESIAUTHOR: SERGE BERNIERObjective of the studyhe Observatoire de la culture et des communications du Québec (OCCQ) is proud to present its new system designed to 2measure the operating expenditures of cities with respect to culture and reveal the fi rst results of a pilot project conducted Tin collaboration with 11 municipalities across Québec: Gatineau, Laval, Lévis, Longueuil, Montréal, Québec, Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Saguenay, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières. The OCCQ would like to thank the persons in charge of culture in 3these 11 municipalities for the time and effort expended in bringing this project to completion.The OCCQ’s advisory committee on municipalities and local governments earmarked the detailed measuring of municipal cultural expenditures as a priority. It is true that Québec municipalities are required to fi le an annual fi nancial report with the ministère des Affaires municipales et des Régions (MAMR) which contains accounting information on cultural expenditures. The objective of the OCCQ is to obtain further details on the nature of these expenditures while adding certain cultural expenditures not mentioned in the MAMR report, such as general expenses. Thus the OCCQ has launched a project whose fi rst objective is to devise a measuring method and test it with a few municipalities. 1. With the ...