The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum (FAMSF) and the city’s Asian art museum can reduce public hours as a result of an important cut in the city budget.
A San Francisco ChronicleIsizen Vaziri and Tony Bravo reported last week FAMSF proposed the young museum and the Legion of the Honor Museum 99 Deleting 23 city positions and extinguishing the doors of both museums on Tuesdays. Meanwhile, the Asian Art Museum must put 13 security guards. These movements are responsible for the warning organizations of the Mayor of San Francisco, to plan 15% cutting in city funding as a result of a unprecedented budget deficit. The FAMSF receives 20% of the budget of the city boxes and has historically come from the city center of the Asian Art Museum.
According to ChronicleMost releases would affect museum safety groups – 20 full-time guards would go from FAMSF, saving the city by $ 2.6 million. The restriction on the guards of the Asian Art Museum would save the city $ 1.7 million. Many of these jobs are colored. On Honorary and Legion of the Youngness, for more days a day, according to FAMSF, which will have 150,000 visitors for more than one year, “students’ visits fell by 25%. All these negative effects are explained in museum proposals, within the last month of the Mayor’s office in the city’s annual budget process.
“The mayor’s office doesn’t understand that he doesn’t want to reduce the Honorary Young and Legion Operation Hours.
Proposal of Asian Art Museum States: “In our experience, it would probably not be the museum to operate with this level of security coverage. We should limit visitors to a small section of the Museum, which we believe that such results will interfere with the ability to show our collection and offer educational programs that offer visitors and visitors.
Other San Francisco organizations will also affect the proposed budget cuts, including the California Academy of Sciences. New city mayor, Daniel Lurie, has still decided to deal with the deficit of $ 876 million in the next two years. This week, the Lurel sent representatives to Washington, DCWhere they worry about the federal federal, responding to the liberal policies of the city of Donald Trump Administration.
