“Virginia Performing Arts Foundation President Brad Armstrong has taken a $100,000-a-year pay cut in hopes of eliminating a ‘distraction’ for the planned downtown arts center.” The city’s mayor and other critics of the project have frequently made reference to the salaries being earned by the project’s top executives. “Armstrong’s decision to reduce his pay from $275,000 to $175,000 was” completely voluntary, according to sources on the PAC’s board, and the same sources say that the president’s job was never in danger.