The Music & Media Workshop is not just a valuable program for Aarhus and Denmark but is respected around the world for its innovative approach to inclusive, humane and productive community core development. In California, we consider it a model program for both social and economic good. The idea that its funding is in jeopardy is astonishingly short sighted, and I urge you to reconsider any proposal to eliminate anything but full support — not just for the good of those served locally, but as an example for a wanting and receptive world.