<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6d0c75f3-db9b-4d42-be39-c71413ebd639/59155003-4D3B-47C1-AF46-DFB13A0F575A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02.htm"><table background="" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD id="pgraphA" width="100%"><SPAN><IMG height="248" hspace="0" src="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/images/chStory02.jpg" width="200" align="top" vspace="0" border="2" /><BR /><B><FONT size="2">Treasurer John Brumby </FONT></B></SPAN><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size="3"><P><B>Mayor still confident of $4.5m arts funding in New Year</B> <BR /><BR /><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Written by <B>PHILIP NOLAN</B>.</FONT> </P></FONT><BR /><BR /><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Written by <B>PHILIP NOLAN</B>.</FONT> <P></P><P>THE great wait over $4.5m State Government funding for Wangaratta’s planned new performing arts centre continues to drag on.</P><P>State treasurer John Brumby, the man most likely to make the announcement on the project, was in Wangaratta to speak with city council officials on a range of new funding offers - but the arts centre money was not among them.</P><P>City mayor Don Joyce confirmed that the controversial project had not been raised, but that this was "<B>not a worry</B>".</P><P>"<B>We will get the funding. I have no doubt about that - it is just a matter of timing,</B>" Cr Joyce said.</P><P>The city council ran into a storm of protest last year when it announced that the project would go ahead - and that the existing memorial town hall would be completely demolished to make way for it.</P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory02.htm"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/59155003-4D3B-47C1-AF46-DFB13A0F575A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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