Philadelphia Mayor John Street proposes big reductions in the city’s support of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Street’s austerity budget proposes to cut city support for the Philadelphia Museum of Art by $250,000 to $1.75 million. City funding for the art museum provides for security and maintenance. By 2010, under the mayor’s proposed five-year financial plan, city support would be scaled back to $500,000. Art museum officials called the proposed cuts a “major setback” and noted that there already had been a 7 percent reduction in staff and elimination of Wednesday-evening programs due to city funding cuts last year.”