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Buffalo Arts Commission chair warns budget cuts and ordinance changes leave $2 million in projects without staff oversight
Buffalo Common Council
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Catherine Gillespie told the council that a December ordinance removed the Arts Commission executive director line and the current budget erases the staff position, jeopardizing roughly $2 million in public-art projects and contracts.
Catherine Gillespie, chair of the Buffalo Arts Commission, told the Common Council that an ordinance approved in December 2025 eliminated the commission’s executive director and that the current budget erases the commission’s staff line. Gillespie said the change has left volunteers without the…
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