In Wednesday’s (6/20) Philadelphia Inquirer, Peter Dobrin writes, “The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is laying off 10 percent of its administrative staff. Seven employees in the arts center’s marketing, development, programming, education, and facilities operations departments were told Tuesday that they were being let go; another position will go unfilled. Ushers, stagehands, security, TicketPhiladelphia, and vice presidents were not among those laid off, Kimmel president Anne Ewers said. The staff reduction was a response to a combination of a challenging financial picture—lower rent from resident companies such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, reduced state funding, the depressed economy—and an evolving business plan, Ewers said. … She said the Kimmel board next week would consider the budget for fiscal 2013, which may have to be tightened in response to the economy; the eight lost positions will save the Kimmel about $500,000 in wages and benefits.”
Posted June 20, 2012
