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Arts commission urges council appointments and enforcement of charter’s 1% public-art requirement
Summary
The City of Buffalo Committee on Finance took up Arts Commission requests July 29, including a $200,000 distribution line, advisory-board appointments and enforcement mechanisms for the charter’s 1% public-art requirements.
The City of Buffalo Committee on Finance on July 29 took up requests from the Buffalo Arts Commission to begin distributing a newly appropriated arts fund, to fill advisory-board seats and to clarify enforcement of the charter’s 1% public-art requirements.
Alan Gerstmann, a member of the Arts Commission, said the commission welcomes a $200,000 line in this year’s budget to distribute to arts organizations and highlighted that the revitalized Arts and Cultural Funding Advisory Board will have 17 members: seven appointed by the council, six by the mayor, three by the Arts Commission and one by the comptroller. Gerstmann said the commission intends to use a streamlined application similar to the county’s to reduce…
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