I'm basically a wild person, so there's a lot I don't understand about how the city of Nashville is run. But like most creative people, I'm trying to understand what's going on at Metro Arts and Metro Legal, who wronged whom, when, and why. I am concerned that Kevin Crumbo, director of Metro Finance, is talking about withholding funds from Metro Arts. A former Metro employee has come out here to explain that it is impossible for Metro Finance to foresee any pending deficits, and yet there may be one. How outdated and outdated our bookkeeping system is. I'm also concerned that the way this conflict is viewed is by white people feuding with people of color, and that a white woman told the media she was unhappy with the direction of Metro Arts' director Daniel Shinn. It is true that he is clearly tired of being there. Sick leave.
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However, there is a part of me that is very confused and I haven't seen it covered in the local media. Why on earth would a portion of the arts budget go to places with wealthy patrons? (By regular customers, I mean rich people who give money, not people who are there regularly.) I'm not rich, and I don't understand rich people, but if I were to set up the store, Let's say you donate $30 to help. Betsy Phillips' mud bucket is in plain sight downtown (or in the wealthiest suburbs), but is it ever empty?I would fill the bucket with mud.
God, I'm thinking now, if Betsy Phillips mud bucket runs out of mud, I'll never live with mud in my family. is. Phillips came from all over the country to take selfies with empty buckets and post on social media about my failures as a mud supporter. I would be ashamed of my young nieces and nephews trying to put their own mud in the bucket because I didn't. I never heard the end of it. If you have money to buy gas and a garden full of dirt, you probably have a bucket of dirt in it.what would i do do not have I receive $1 a year for the mud bucket from the city because I have the money to maintain the mud bucket myself. embarrassing — embarrassing — There are people who need money because their buckets are cracked or their old neighborhoods have been gentrified, but they are taking money from one place (I think it's Metro Dirt in this analogy). Withdrawing money when you don't need it. You no longer have access to good quality mud.
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Bill Frist takes a selfie in front of the Frist Art Museum and says, “It's great to see our family names so closely tied to government benefits that they ruin working artists, Tommy.'' Have you ever posted something in a family group chat with the caption, “Good job''? ? Probably not.? I'm sure the Frist family is more dignified than the Philip family, but guess what. Something with the Guru's name on it that requires city money? How will the family present themselves in public?
But what's even worse is that Metro Nashville Arts Commissioner Will Cheek voted against cutting funding to these huge organizations that have ties to family money. . Will Cheek is one of the best attorneys in the state. He is also respected as a good person. And he's a teakwood teak. It is his family home and has been turned into a museum and garden. Why on earth does he sit on the Metro Arts Commission and when he sees Cheekwood asking Metro for money, doesn't he just open his checkbook and address the issue? ? Even if he does not want to do it alone, he will certainly be able to collect that money if he makes a few calls.
I mean, I really respect Cheek. I don't think he's doing this out of greed or malice. I think this must be how wealthy people's brains work, something I don't understand. Why would you allow that agency to ask Metro for money when your family's name is on it and the money is there? Why doesn't this look bad? It's like Steve Jobs trying to get out of paying child support. You made this. When things don't work your way in the world, you step in and help. If I do not? Please know that the rest of us think you are a monster.
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Perhaps people who receive money from Metro Arts should have a link next to where they pay their admission fee to tell them how much money they're getting from Metro Arts, what it's being used for, and how it benefits Nashville. It may be useful to require posting of the results. Kind of like a receipt for taxpayers' money. Because I would be less confused if, for example, the Frist Art Museum received money from the city to maintain its facilities. Because, technically, we are the landlord of the Frist Museum, and we have to do our part to maintain the building. But if not, I'd like to know why a place that charges an entrance fee and is named after a wealthy family in town can't pay for itself. Or, hope that family members who benefit from having their name prominently displayed will step in.
Why do I, a normal person with a poor family budget, have to pay to get into these places and then again as a taxpayer pay for some rich man's vanity project through MetroArts? Will it not? And if it's important to be seen as great philanthropists and patrons of the arts, don't these wealthy people feel humiliated by the fact that these institutions have to collaborate with the city?
