Arts Policy: Miami Keeps Its Arts Funding

Arts Policy: Miami Keeps Its Arts Funding:

“The mayor’s threat to pull funding from the arts will not come to pass.

MIAMI—Public pressure in Miami has successfully led Mayor Carlos Alvarez to decide against cutting arts funding by $11 million in an attempt to help the city lessen its $444 million budget deficit. Instead, money originally intended to speed up the opening of the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, which has already been delayed a number of times, will be reallocated to organizations like the Miami Art Museum and the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, allowing them the same funding they received last year. Other groups, including several arts nonprofits, will receive 70 percent of the previous year’s allowance; they were under threat of being cut off entirely.

However, the arts funding does not come without a price: In order to trim down Miami-Dade’s costs, 1,000 jobs will be lost city-wide, and small social services groups will see a cut to their budgets.”

(Via ARTINFO: News.)