(The Center Square) – An organization that supports the arts in Bossier Parish risks losing taxpayer-funded support after it repeatedly failed to produce financial information to the state.
The Bossier City Council agreed Tuesday to give the Bossier Arts Council two weeks to provide documentation showing the nonprofit is in good standing with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, or risk losing city support and being evicted from the city-owned building it occupies.
The city council had considered ending its cooperative endeavor agreement with the arts council. In 2025, the city provided $130,000 and free use of a city-owned building in the East Bank District as part of that agreement. Council members said the total annual subsidy is valued at roughly $300,000…