Senate Finance Committee moves to nix New Hampshire’s arts council amid budget woes

Senate Finance Committee moves to nix New Hampshire's arts council amid budget woes • New Hampshire Bulletin

The Capitol Center for the Arts in downtown Concord on May 21, 2025. (Photo by Dana Wormald/New Hampshire Bulletin)Another effort to prevent New Hampshire’s State Council on the Arts from being eliminated during the state budgeting process has fallen short. New Hampshire state senators have spent the last few weeks working through the state budget. After the Senate Ways and Means Committee projected that state revenues — which have been lagging …

Senate Finance Committee moves to nix New Hampshire’s arts council amid budget woes

Another effort to prevent New Hampshire’s State Council on the Arts from being eliminated during the state budgeting process has fallen short. New Hampshire state senators have spent the last few weeks working through the state budget. After the Senate…

Senate budget writers move to nix New Hampshire’s arts council

If the Council on the Arts isn’t restored, New Hampshire would become the only U.S. state not to have such a council,

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The State Council on the Arts has been reduced by the Senate Finance Committee to a single dollar. One dollar. Lawmakers have asked the Council to become a volunteer operation and rely entirely on private donations—despite knowing this move could lead to the loss of all support staff and federal matching grants. This isn’t just a budget adjustment. It’s a slow erasure.