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Arts groups urge council to preserve grants as proposal for 'Experience Carmel' would pull funding from arts budget
Summary
Representatives from the arts community told the council they were concerned that a proposed city-funded nonprofit, "Experience Carmel," would be seeded with nearly $1.8 million and that the money would come from the arts budget — including cuts to the Carmel Arts Grant and the Allied Solutions Center management fee.
Several local arts leaders urged the Carmel Common Council on Sept. 15 to preserve existing arts funding and to ask questions about a proposed city-funded nonprofit called Experience Carmel.
Jeff McDermott, representing the Allied Solutions Center and the Great American Songbook Foundation, said the proposal presented during recent budget workshops would allocate nearly $1.8 million to fund Experience Carmel next year. He said he and other arts…
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