Governor’s Budget Proposes Level Funding for Mass Cultural Council
(via the MCC’s Power of Culture newsletter, Jan. 23, 2019)
Governor Charlie Baker released a state budget proposal today that would invest $16.1 million in the arts, humanities, and sciences through Mass Cultural Council for the coming fiscal year. The Governor’s proposal would maintain current cultural funding levels for Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1.
Mass Cultural Council seeks an $18 million state appropriation, a roughly $2 million increase, for FY20. Executive Director Anita Walker said the agency will make the case for that increase to the Legislature in the coming months in concert with MASSCreative, Mass Humanities, Mass Artists Leaders Coalition, and their statewide networks of advocates. Those organizations and others joined Mass Cultural Council last week when it presented its budget request to the Legislative Cultural Caucus, Co-Chaired by Senator Julian Cyr of Truro and Representative Mary Keefe of Worcester and attended by more than a dozen House and Senate members.
“Culture is integral to the fabric of the Commonwealth,” said Senator Cyr. “We need to step up and support it in a meaningful way.”
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The MCC line item as published in the Governor’s budget:
https://budget.digital.mass.gov/bb/h1/fy20h1/brec_20/act_20/h06400300.htm