The immediate future of Measure P arts funding comes before the Fresno City Council on Thursday, March 26. If Councilmembers give their OK, they will finalize what the city’s top managers wanted all along: the city’s parks department controlling the $5 million that nonprofit arts organizations and artists compete for annually.
If this is a crossroads – following the implosion of the Fresno Arts Council over an alleged embezzlement – it was only reached after negotiating as many curves as you find on the mountainous highway to Yosemite.
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