Tuesday, February 8, is Arts Day in Albany. The Arts NYS Coalition, a coalition of regional arts and cultural organizations that includes the Greene and Columbia County councils for the arts, will be calling on Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to restore $2.8 million to the New York State Council on the Arts’ (NYSCA) local assistance budget, which has been cut by 10 percent, more than the 2% reduction the Governor’s administration is proposing for other agencies. And that's on top of a steady reduction in arts funding that included the killing of numerous grants two years ago that had already been promised, resulting in the ddemise of a number of key arts activities across the state. Statewide, the coalition points out, 53,085 arts-related businesses generate 335,683 jobs, which pay close to $9.8 billion in wages, which then generates $1.2 billion in taxes, and $25.7 billion in economic impact statewide. The Coalition will hold a press conference at 2 pm in the Legislative Correspondents Association (LCA) Press Room in the Legislative Office Building in Albany.