Governor’s Budget Cuts Funding for the Arts, Humanities & Sciences
This week, Governor Baker released his FY2021 budget proposal. Despite the final FY2020 budget funding the Massachusetts Cultural Council at $18M — a 12% increase, and the highest appropriation of funds the MCC has received since 2002 — Gov. Baker’s FY2021 recommendation cuts their funding by nearly 9.5%.
Here’s an excerpt from the press release MCC released on Tuesday:
The Governor’s budget for the coming fiscal year proposes an investment of $16.3M for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Mass Cultural Council. The Agency is disappointed … and cautions that this $1.7M funding reduction will lead to broad cuts in agency services and programs in the coming fiscal year.
