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Wisconsin Arts Board told federal grant is intact but uncertainty could affect next year’s budget
Summary
Board staff and members reviewed the current fiscal-year finances, an approved NEA partnership award and one-time federal grants, and discussed risks from a pending federal budget and recent agency staffing changes.
At a Wisconsin Arts Board meeting, board members heard that the agency’s current federal-state partnership award for the coming year is approved but that future funding and program delivery face operational risk because of ongoing federal budget uncertainty and recent federal staffing changes.
Board members and staff said the board received an NEA partnership award for the state program (the board’s federal–state grant) and that the award amount for the current federal fiscal cycle is $1,083,000. The NEA also offered up to $75,000 in one-time funding for arts-and-health work and an additional one‑time $25,000 allocation tied to America’s 250 celebration; state staff said the agency had asked whether it wanted the one‑time funds and accepted them to support local programming.
The funding news arrived amid concern about the federal budget process. George Sugross, executive director of the Wisconsin Arts Board, described the timing and paperwork of federal awards as…
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