Kansas City Star | 01/08/2006 | Missouri Arts Council funds dry up: "Missouri Arts Council funds dry up
By ROBERT TRUSSELL
The Kansas City Star
The Missouri Arts Council has canceled a program worth millions of dollars once promised to local arts groups.
In the fiscal year beginning July 1, the Kansas City Symphony, the Kansas City Ballet, the Lyric Opera, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and 21 other arts organizations across Missouri will no longer receive annual payments from the council that would have reached tens of millions of dollars over time.
The arts council gave no notice to any of the affected arts groups in October when it voted to end contracts with organizations participating in the Capital Incentive Program. The program allowed them to collect interest from the council’s endowment."
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