During this season of busted water pipes, potholes and mostly horrible city services . . . Let's appreciate the Kansas City creative class and all of the increasingly taxpayer subsidized benefits they provide this town.
Check it:
City Announces Appointment of Director of Creative Services
City of Kansas City, Missouri, City Manager Troy Schulte announced today the appointment of Megan Crigger to the position of Director of Creative Services in the newly created Office of Culture and Creative Services, a division of the City Manager’s office.
The Director of Creative Services will serve the residents of Kansas City by facilitating cultural community planning, and facilitating relationships between artists, cultural organizations, and governmental and civic organizations. The Director of Creative Services is responsible for uniting local, regional and international cultural organizations for the advancement of artistic and cultural initiatives within Kansas City, Missouri.
“The City’s investment in the arts as an economic driver is just the starting point for creating an entirely new way of engaging our residents and visitors with the arts,” said City Manager Troy Schulte. “I am pleased to welcome Megan Crigger to join Kansas City in this important advancement.”
The Office of Culture and Creative Services was initiated through recommendations provided as part of a recent report from the Mayor’s Task Force for the Arts. The Task Force for the Arts Cultural Planning Group was formed to develop a roadmap for City leaders to fully embrace and codify arts and culture in its operations, by providing specific strategies to support arts education, increase tourism, and leverage technology to benefit the arts.
“The appointment of Megan Crigger to Director of the Office of Cultural & Creative Services is an important step to fulfill the recommendations of the Mayor’s Task Force for the Arts,” said Mayor Sly James. “Arts and culture play an integral role in civic life, and provide the education, economic development and vitality which will move our city onto the world stage, where it belongs.”
Crigger brings 17 years of experience with the City of Austin, Texas where she most recently served in the role of Cultural Arts Division Manager.
Under Crigger’s direction, the City of Austin made significant improvements in the areas of tourism, art and culture. During Crigger’s tenure, The City of Austin successfully increased focus on tourism and cultural development through the Cultural Funding Program; completed prominent public art projects through the Arts in Public Places Program; and advanced a community of arts culture through the Creative Industry Initiatives, and Creative Placemaking programs, among other initiatives. Additionally, Crigger has experience working with the Kennedy Center, creating new events around the arts, and partnering with local school districts to build creative learning opportunities.
“Kansas City has a vibrant arts community, with many rich resources,” said Megan Crigger, Director of Creative Services. “I am pleased to join in sharing the City’s heritage of arts and in laying the foundation for the future community of arts in Kansas City.”
Crigger will join the City of Kansas City in the role of Director of Creative Services on January 5, 2015.
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Another complete waste of tax payer money. Whats next a Director of gay recreation services? Why do the tax payers not have to approve bullshit like this?
ReplyDeleteI'd rape her like she was Lena Dunham.
ReplyDeleteWTF? This is meant to be funny right?
ReplyDeleteWhat an entire load of bullshit! KC needs this position like a girl basketball teams needs a cruise director. Common on, this is shit!!
ReplyDeleteAnd she comes from another 17 year gig on the Austin taxpayer payroll. So clearly, she sucks otherwise she would be working in the private sector where performance = advancement. Typical liberal bullshit. Let's engineer culture and pretend our horse is a cow instead of celebrating the horse.
ReplyDeleteThen again, maybe we'll get another new CK logo.
more big government welfare. what an utter waste. things like this used to be left to charitable foundations. how about getting the necessities right first.
ReplyDeleteBrutal. ..
ReplyDeleteOnly a true fucking dolt would believe a corporate lie like "performance = advancement" in the private sector.
ReplyDeleteFucking sucker. Enjoy your afternoon of playing on THE PUBLICALLY RESEARCHED, DEVELOPED, BUILT MAINTAINED, AND FUNDED INTERNET at your totally "free market"/"invisible hand" "private" enterprise. Until you drive from your totally libertarian employer on roads and highways built 100% by the taxpayers, to a home whose utilities are built created and maintained by the public.
Fucking shill.
Go back to the brietbart comments section, dipshit.
4:13 clearly has some publicly-funded emotional issues. And the taxpayers get that money where? Maybe if govt didn't have bullshit jobs like Creative Services, Nixon would have enough money to avoid turning I-70 into a fucking toll road. Now shut the fuck up and go produce something.
ReplyDeleteCan she get anyone employed by the city to just show up for work and do their jobs.
ReplyDeleteA six-figure salary for a new arts position when layoffs are just around the corner and salaries are set to be frozen again.
ReplyDelete"The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ?
ReplyDeleteOn the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook.'
4:13 I will grant you private public partnership for the internet. But I was unaware that Stanford was a publicly funded institution. And a great portion of the internet is actually privately funded and maintained.
ReplyDeleteHence the topic of Net Neutrality comes up.
4:29 with a knock-out punch and a kick in the nuts for good measure......
ReplyDeleteYou go dude.....power down on that shit stain.
Got any bikini pictures of her?
ReplyDeleteWhat is her position on unsolicited bulk email?
ReplyDeleteI'd have to say that 4:13 pretty much handed some folks their asses; it's just a shame that the rubes are too idiotic to realize it.
ReplyDeleteNot really. She confused libertarianism with anarchy.
ReplyDelete"The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing."
Thats the trouble you get with trying to throw around universal labels. One could equally take the extremem position that 4:19 is a Stalin Socialist. But that would be equally preposterous.
I can define my stance on the spectrum of issues, and clearly define my position in the political sphere. Can you?
ReplyDeleteFor your enjoyment, www.politicalcompass.org
"move our city onto the world stage, where it belongs”
ReplyDeleteWe gotta be like Portland! We gotta git world recognition! Ooh look at us!! We is CK! Weez da greatest city in the known universe!
More bullshit from the ripoff crew anytime he talks like this he and the crew have another taxpayer ripoff in their frying pan.
This is just another step toward getting more public funding for the arts, following the forum for the new council candidates to get them to promise to support the requests when they come.
ReplyDeleteBut she'll very soon learn that just a handful of swells control the real arts funding in town and that the arts organizations all work together until someone puts a dollar bill on the table, at which time they rip each other to shreds fighting over it.
The last bi-state campaign for the arts was an insider excessive fiasco very much like the failed medical tax and for all the same reasons.
And the next one will be the same.
KCMO city government gets farther away from providing for its residents every day and most would not have believed that possible.
Keep that e-tax coming friends.
We need dramatic change. Thorough and rigorous mental examinations for anyone running for office here would be a good start.
ReplyDeleteSly and Troy are trying to impose a system where everyone but they and their cronies fail, stay broke, and never get ahead.
ReplyDeleteKCMO Director of Creative Services....so, this is the person who balances the budget?
ReplyDeleteCity Manager Toy Schulte announced today the appointment to the position of Director of Imaginary Services in the newly created Office of Imagination and Imaginary Services, a division of the City Manager’s virtual office.
The Director of Imaginary Services will serve the virtual residents of Kansas City by facilitating imaginary cultural community planning, and fictitious relationships between artists, cultural organizations, and governmental and civic organizations. The Director of Imaginary Services is responsible for dreaming up local, regional and international cultural organizations for the advancement of non-existent artistic and cultural initiatives within Kansas City, Missouri.
No one has to worry. In a few weeks she'll figure out she has absolutely no talent pool to work with and she will run.
ReplyDeleteMORE of that shitty CK logo.
ReplyDeleteSo, whoever has that job only works on First Fridays?
ReplyDeleteTroy Schulte is absolutely worthless. Why this mother fucker wasn't fired years ago is beyond comprehension.
ReplyDeleteThis needs to be changed. It is a way for certain people to get a pipe line of ART money built from City Hall to private pockets.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most egregious rejection of cultural responsibility this city has seen.
She will decide what is ART and what will not be funded.