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After nearly two months, the ad hoc Arts and Cultural Center Committee has broken a deadlock and decided the proposed center should have a public governing board.
The committee, which had been debating whether to take the center private, agreed to a format that would more closely resemble the library board after City Atty. Robert Burnham outlined potential legal conflicts the center would have with a private nonprofit governing board.
Library board chairman Jim Wood said the board would be an administrative body that would run the center on a proposed budget of $100,000 a year in city funds and seek private donations for additional funding.
The council is scheduled to review the plan for the center at its Nov. 8 study session.
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