Mayans wants city to keep funding culture

Wichita Mayor Carlos Mayans took some deserved heat for recently including the resurrection of Wichita State University football among his six visions for the community. But he also deserves credit for counting cultural funding among those priorities. To follow up on the current budget’s added $712,000 for arts organizations, Mayans told KSN, Channel 3, “I still believe we need to have 1 mill earmarked for this project, and I am willing to reach some kind of a consensus to do it, limited for five years, to see the impact it will have on arts and culture on our area.” As the cultural funding review panel prepares to take on its second round of grants, and submit to the scrutiny of the city’s budget cycle, it’s good to know that Mayans gets it — that arts and attractions help make a community unique and interesting, as they generate jobs and revenue.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted February 26, 2006 at 12:16 am | Permalink

    And they attract businesses. The recent $100+ million dollar Cultual Art Center in Omaha is having a substantial impact in business growth and recuiting companies.

    We need to do a lot more in Wichita. I’m doing what I can to make that happen. I support the cultural arts funding.

  2. JUSTA GUY
    Posted February 26, 2006 at 5:36 am | Permalink

    Yep, a mill here and a mill there for the city = higher taxes for working citizens, but the IRB’s and tax deferments and go on and on.

  3. Otto
    Posted February 26, 2006 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

    If he really wants to push for culture, why doesn’t he stop attacking any kind of adult entertainment? Wichita and Kansas City constantly rate last when polls are taken to see were single people like to live. We are at the bottom. Mayans should get a clue and stop attacking the entertainment we already have. He’s running intelligent people out of Wichita.

  4. NoJoCo
    Posted February 26, 2006 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, nothing says culture like an ol porn joint.

  5. Keith
    Posted February 27, 2006 at 10:11 am | Permalink

    Maybe we rank last for singles because they don’t want jobs in factories or at call centers. I am single and I definately do not want to work at a factory or a call center.