All Entries Tagged With: "Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts"
Planning 2010-2011
Had a meeting with my booking consortium today and learned some interesting things.
First of all, in relation to my post on advocating to keep our state arts council staff from being laid off. I was told that during the hearing, it came to light that the decision to lay the staff off came after all [...]
Advocating Under Pressure
I received an email at 3:00 pm today “reminding” me that the deadline for submitting a letter of testimony to the state legislature about the possible layoffs of the majority of the state arts foundation staff was due by 5:00 pm. I use the quotes because I was entirely unaware that the hearings were today. [...]
If The Postman Rings And There Is No One To Sign For The Check..
Hawaii Public Radio reported last week that the state’s governor had sent layoff notices to 10 employees of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, including Executive Director, Ronald Yamakawa. “That leaves only the Art in Public Places staff, one account clerk, and three federally funded positions to fulfill agency functions.”
The public radio [...]