A New Creative Arts Industries Commission for Kansas?
Submitted by Tommer on May 14, 2012
While Kansas plans to overhaul its arts agency this summer to focus it on generating new jobs, state funding for arts programs remained uncertain as legislators continued discussing budget issues Saturday.
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Thursday to merge the Arts and Film Services Commission into a new Creative Arts Industries Commission in the state Department of Commerce. But his proposed $14.1 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 included only $200,000 for the new commission, and he hasn't said whether he'll approve more money than he originally proposed.