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Metro Arts committee weighs three operating-funding formulas, transition threshold and dual-eligibility options
Summary
At the May 19 meeting staff presented three options for operating-support awards (maintain uniform scale, allocate by budget category, or change budget ranges), proposed a 10% transition threshold to soften category cliffs and discussed whether small or micro organizations should be allowed dual eligibility for operating and Thrive.
Staff presented three approaches to distributing Metro Arts operating-support funds and discussed a separate proposal to soften abrupt funding cliffs between budget categories.
Under the current method, staff said, every organization’s "full funding" target is scaled by a uniform factor; for FY25 that uniform scale was about 33%. Metro Arts staff showed a hypothetical alternative that keeps current budget categories but allocates a specific percent of the operating budget to each category (for example, more percent to micro and small organizations and slightly less to large organizations).…
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