Buffalo’s arts scene took a big hit last week when the state legislature scrapped $1 million in county-based arts funding. The city’s largest arts groups will still get their money, but 42 smaller organizations are scrambling to find alternate funds, having already absorbed several rounds of cuts. “The county rollback will disproportionately affect grass-roots organizations whose educational programs serve primarily urban families… By halving the $5.5 million originally budgeted for the arts and radically altering distribution of the remaining $2.7 million, lawmakers called into question the future of the volunteer Erie County Cultural Resources Advisory Board, which was formed 20 years ago to correct inequities in cultural aid.”