This opinion is signed by Tom Bensen, executive director, Arts Missoula; Laura Millin, executive director, Missoula Art Museum; John Driscoll, executive director, Missoula Symphony Association; Michael McGill, executive director, MCT, Inc.; Barbara Koostra, director, Montana Museum of Art & Culture; Greg Johnson, artistic director, Montana Repertory Theatre; Kia Liszac, executive director, Zootown Arts Community Center; Caroline Patterson, executive director, Missoula Writing Collaborative; Anne Marie Brinkman, executive director, International Choral Festival; Rachel Gregg, executive director, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; Charlene Campbell Carey, artistic director, Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre; Don Carey, professor emeritus, University of Montana School of Music; Holly Truitt, director, SpectrUM Discovery Area; Karen Kaufmann, director, University of Montana Creative Pulse and Co-Motion Dance; Honore Bray, director, Missoula Public Library; Peter Park, artistic director, Dolce Canto; and Caroline Kurz, administrative director, Garden City Ballet.