{"id":13098,"date":"2024-02-11T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2024-02-11T13:48:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:48:21","slug":"busy-hive-looks-to-correct-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/busy-hive-looks-to-correct-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy HIVE looks to correct a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIVE Director Kim Brandt has stirred so much activity at Decatur’s downtown cultural arts center that it has brought about mostly unanticipated problems for the director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brandt and Community Coordinator Jamie Gephart (left and right, respectively, in photo), who works closely with Brandt, bought the problems before city council at its latest meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically, the city’s public arts commission would like to set up a non-reverting fund in which all revenues from the HIVE would be placed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a piece of art is sold at the HIV, 80% of the purchase goes to the artist and 20% to the HIVE. The money goes into the city’s general fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to pay the artist, the money is taken from the commission’s budget, which can drain it rather rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when Brandt needs supplies, she has to ask for an appropriation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The establishment of a non-reverting fund would have all revenue from the HIVE go into it, and then be used to pay artists, purchase supplies, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way it’s done, it’s complicated,\u201d Gephart said. \u201cIt’s growing pains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never would have imagined it (the HIVE) would be rented out as much as it is now; it’s been great,\u201d Councilman Matt Dyer said, praising Brandt’s work at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been so much activity that the HIVE seems to be moving more quickly to becoming self-sustaining than anyone expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a lengthy discussion, no final decisions were reached, but the matter will be revisited soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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