Schwyz lottery fund money for center culture
The government council of the canton of Schwyz would like to use lottery funds to compensate for the cultural burden in future. It does not believe that this will jeopardize the canton's own cultural promotion tasks.
The 2003 agreement on intercantonal cooperation in the area of supra-regional cultural institutions regulates the equalization of cultural burdens between the cantons of Zurich, Lucerne, Aargau, Zug, Uri and Schwyz. The Cantonal Council of the Canton of Schwyz decided to join this agreement in 2005. In Zurich, the opera house, the Tonhalle and the Schauspielhaus are considered supra-regional cultural institutions, while in Lucerne they are the Kunst- und Kongresshaus (KKL), the Lucerne Theater and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
In the course of the first settlement period (2010-2012), the Schwyz Cantonal Council declared a motion in September 2011 that called for the agreement to be terminated. However, the government and cantonal council ultimately decided against withdrawing from the agreement in 2013. The cantonal government now plans to finance the cultural burden equalization in the previous amount of two million francs with voluntary funds from the lottery fund.
In response to an interpellation, the cantonal government has now stated that the "possible additional expenditure for the equalization of cultural burdens, currently amounting to around CHF 1.8 million, would not affect the canton's own cultural projects". According to the current state of knowledge, the payments for cultural promotion are not at risk over a time horizon of ten years. The cantonal government also reiterates that it does not promote cultural projects, but only projects, and intends to continue to do so in the future.
The entire answer to the interpellation:
https://www.sz.ch/public/upload/assets/28444/I_Kultureinrichtungen.pdf
