{"id":82072,"date":"2013-03-06T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=34185"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:00:01","slug":"city-hall-heaps-on-more-aid-for-hakataza","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/city-hall-heaps-on-more-aid-for-hakataza\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall Heaps on More Aid for Hakataza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fukuoka City has finalized plans to provide additional financial support to Hakataza Theater in the upcoming fiscal year. City Hall will allocate \u00a5130 million to help cover utilities and cleaning services for the struggling public-private theater, bringing the total amount of aid including facility upkeep\u2014which the city has covered since the theater\u2019s inception\u2014 to \u00a5369 million. According to a city official \u201cthe theater attracts over 40% of its visitors from outside of the prefecture, so efforts need to be taken to stabilize its management\u201d. When Hakataza opened in 1999, the City provided aid for utilities and maintenance. <\/p>\n

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The theater posted its first profit in 2004, but the City cut off funding in 2006 as a belt-tightening measure. Performance has been lackluster in recent years, leading to \u00a5500 million in losses in fiscal 2011 and an accumulated debt of \u00a5930 million. The additional aid for Hakataza was not addressed in the written explanation accompanying the City\u2019s budget proposal in February, nor was it reported to City Council. One council member said, \u201cCity Hall must explain why a large injection of public money is necessary to the people.\u201d City Hall said it plans to give an explanation at this week\u2019s meeting of City Council\u2019s Special Committee on the Budget. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Mar. 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fukuoka City has finalized plans to provide additional financial support to Hakataza Theater in the upcoming fiscal year. City Hall will allocate \u00a5130 million to help cover utilities and cleaning services for the struggling public-private theater, bringing the total amount of aid including facility upkeep\u2014which the city has covered since the theater\u2019s inception\u2014 to \u00a5369 million. According to a city official \u201cthe theater attracts over 40% of its visitors from outside of the prefecture, so efforts need to be taken to stabilize its management\u201d. When Hakataza opened in 1999, the City provided aid for utilities and maintenance. The theater posted its first profit in 2004, but the City cut off funding in 2006 as a belt-tightening measure. Performance has been lackluster in recent years, leading to \u00a5500 million in losses in fiscal 2011 and an accumulated debt of \u00a5930 million. The additional aid for Hakataza was not addressed in the written explanation accompanying the City\u2019s budget proposal in February, nor was it reported to City Council. One council member said, \u201cCity Hall must explain why a large injection of public money is necessary to the people.\u201d City Hall said it plans to give an explanation at this week\u2019s meeting of City Council\u2019s Special Committee on the Budget. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Mar. 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":34186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82072","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}