About 80 other venues will divide $9.7 million. For Portland and the metro area, they are:
• Portland (37 at $5,689,168): Aladdin Theater, $497,000; Alberta Rose Theater, $198,940; Artichoke Music, $52,885; Atlantis Lounge, $82,600; BodyVox dance studio, $45,962; Bossanova Ballroom, $120,400; CoHo Productions, $24,605; Crystal Ballroom, $526,414; Dante's, $191,100; Doug Fir Lounge, $268,898; Goodfoot Lounge, $61,600; Hawthorne Theater, $315,700; Headwaters Theater, $24,675; Holocene $205,100; Imago Theater, $73,269; Jack London Revue, $64,120; Kelly's Olympian, $36,400; Kickstand Comedy, formerly Brody Theater, $60,935; Laurelthirst Pub, $56,840; Milagro Theater, $25,711; Mississippi Studios, $294,049; New Expressive Works, $25,081; Northwest Children's Theater, $80,500; Old Church concert hall, $87,500; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, $187,133; Polaris Hall, $183,694; Portland Playhouse, $85,281; Revolution Hall, $434,294; Roseland Theater, $486,094; Shaking the Tree Theater. $63,049; Stage 722, $179,753; Star Theater, $150,500; The Siren Theater, $41,300; Theater Vertigo, $18,375; Tony Starlight Showroom, $51,422; White Eagle, $116,452; Wonder Ballroom, $271,537.
• Other metro area (four at $597,450): Lakewood Center for the Performing Arts, Lake Oswego, $84,000; Pickathon, Happy Valley, $425,131; Theater in the Grove, Forest Grove, $25,900; The Vault Theater, Hillsboro, $62,419."
House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said lawmakers have worked for months to find the best way to help these organizations. A few are run by government, but most are nonprofit or private.
"What we are trying to do is give them a base level of funding so they can be here on the other side of this pandemic," she said Tuesday, July 14.
"I don't want the public to assume something nefarious is going on here."
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"But Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, said some advocates may believe that the aid will make them whole.
"Every venue was encouraged to write in support of this item.
I don't know what they were told, but I think their expectations are through the ceiling," she said.
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