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Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap,the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.

Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap,the city's mayor was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization hundreds of local arts groups.