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Metro Arts outlines audit implementation, budget request and staff changes; council reduces commission size to 11
Summary
Interim executive director Ashley Batchelder and new finance administrator Capri briefed commissioners on audit implementation, a reduced budget outcome from council, hiring updates, and a recently passed Metro Council change reducing the commission from 15 to 11 members.
Metro Arts staff updated commissioners on audit implementation steps, the department budget request, and personnel changes while noting recent Metro Council legislation that changed commission size from 15 to 11 members.
Interim Executive Director Ashley Batchelder said Metro Arts had requested a 25% increase to its grants budget at the council hearing but the proposed budget did not include that increase. She provided a smaller illustrative figure for context: “if we're looking at a 10% increase in our grants budget, that's what that number…
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