The Dispatch wrote
City ready to boost the arts
Friday, February 8, 2008
BY MICHAEL GROSSBERG AND ROBERT VITALE
Columbus City Council members are expected to announce financial support today for several cultural groups, including the struggling Columbus Symphony.
The money, which would come mostly from higher-than-expected hotel-room tax revenue, is likely to be matched by Franklin County commissioners and corporate donors.
The money would go to the Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium, a coalition of 16 cultural organizations. The group sought $1 million annually from both the city and the county as part of the Thrive in Five initiative designed to provide $4 million a year for arts groups in the next three to five years. The Columbus Symphony, which projects a life-threatening $1.5 million deficit this season, could receive as much as $1.2 million from the initiative this year.
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