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Metro Finance will release long-held arts funding, but will temporarily take over the Metro Arts budget

Char Daston

March 22, 2024

Finance Director Kevin Crumbo

Nashville artists and arts organizations that have been waiting for months to receive half the grant money promised by Metro Arts in 2023 finally have reason to be hopeful. However, serious questions remain about the future of arts funding in the city.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Freddie O'Connell, Kevin Crumbo, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro finance, Metro Human Relations Commission, metro legal

Metro Human Relations Commission says Metro Arts’ 2023 funding decisions were illegal

Char Daston

March 5, 2024

Nashville Metro Council October 2023

A decision by the Metro Human Relations Commission has found that Metro Arts should pay complainants what they were originally promised.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Daniel Singh, Kevin Crumbo, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro legal, Wally Dietz

Metro Arts faces pressure for oversight, workplace misconduct allegations

Char Daston

February 9, 2024

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Arts organizations are still waiting for half the grant money Metro Arts promised to distribute last year, and this week, a memo from Nashville’s finance director suggests there will be further delays in handing out those funds.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Daniel Singh, Kevin Crumbo, Metro Arts, Metro Arts Commission, metro legal, Wally Dietz

Metro Council says it needs more time to set new districts

Cynthia Abrams

March 23, 2023

Nashville’s Metro Council is giving itself until April 4 to decide what to do about a new state law, slashing its body in half.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: metro, metro legal, Metro Planning Commission, Nashville Metro Council, state legislature, Tennessee General Assembly, tennessee state legislature

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