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Budget & Finance Committee hears arts funding appeals, reviews grants and airport fee ordinance versions
Summary
Committee heard public pleas for arts funding from Clifton Cultural Arts Center and Artworks; reviewed an administrative report on capital requests and fleet priorities; indefinitely postponed two Lincoln Airport fee ordinances and set other items for passage, including two grant ordinances and a streetcar safety-plan update.
The Cincinnati Budget & Finance Committee on an agenda convened at City Hall heard public pleas for arts funding, considered a city manager report on aggregated capital requests and remaining reserves, and handled procedural motions on several ordinances and grants.
Clifton Cultural Arts Center board chair Jens Rosenkrantz told the committee the center opened a new building in March 2024 after a $11,000,000 capital campaign but faces a shortfall after a $1,000,000 donor did not deliver. "We have a financial gap that is being financed by short term debt costing $10,000 per month," Rosenkrantz said, adding the center had welcomed more than 50,000 visitors since opening. Abby Moran, a longtime volunteer and project participant, described the new CCAC building as "a no frills organization" that provides low-cost and free programming and said retiring the building debt would free money for programming. Colleen Houston, CEO and artistic director of Artworks, asked the committee to consider carryover funds for three Walnut Hills…
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