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Arts & Humanities Council asks Montgomery County for $1 million in new grant funds; council provisionally concurs with 2.5% inflation adjustment

Montgomery County Education and Culture Committee · April 23, 2026
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Summary

The Arts & Humanities Council told the Education and Culture Committee it needs an additional $1,000,000 in FY27 to meet growing demand from new grantees; council staff recommended concurrence with the County Executive’s 2.5% inflationary increase of $176,349 while the chair said he would push for a larger 5% nonprofit increase in later budget deliberations.

The Arts & Humanities Council asked the Montgomery County Education and Culture Committee on April 22 for an additional $1,000,000 in FY27 grant funding to meet rising demand from new grantees. "Demand has grown, increasingly high over these last several years," said Miss Jenkins, who represented the council, asking the committee to consider the memorandum the council transmitted on April 15 requesting an additional $1,000,000 for…

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