The city has funded RACC through a sole-source contract for nearly three decades, awarding more than $7 million a year to distribute grants, run the city’s public arts program and provide other ...

And RACC runs a spectrum of services for the city through our contract. So there’s concern in that space as well. It’s not, you can’t snap your fingers and get it done.

The city’s plan to end its contract with the Regional Arts and Culture Council puts the nonprofit in jeopardy while also providing little hope that the city can replicate what RACC already ...

City leaders, preoccupied with issues like housing and policing in recent years, and several mayoral administrations have come and gone with no one assigned to oversee RACC’s contract. July 10, 2025 ...

The $1.2 million allotment is still a shadow of what the RACC used to distribute, diminished from the approximately $6 million the city entrusted it with in its 2023-24 calendar of grant-awarding.

In September Ryan’s office requested RACC provide contact information for all grant recipients who receive city funding through the agency, and said the city would withhold the agency’s next quarterly ...