The great news for 134 cultural arts groups in the City of Fresno is that they have qualified to get a piece of $6.3 million from Measure P.
The bad news is that these organizations — like the Fresno Philharmonic, the Asian American Writer Coalition and the High School Folklórico Showoffs — are still waiting for their funds more than two months after they received notification of getting the grant.
Even worse is that the same delay happened last year, during the inaugural distribution of funds made possible by the 2018 voter-approved ⅜-cent sales tax that will generate $1.5 billion over 30 years to fund improvements and maintenance of public parks, build new parks and trails and support local arts…