Highland arts council may soon have a home

HIGHLAND (Daily Herald) -- For the first time ever, the Highland City Arts Council appears on the cusp of having its own home.

"We are always a guest in someone else's house," said KeriLynn Lenhart, council chair. "This would be a really big deal for our community. There has never been a community building or an arts building, and it would be wonderful."

Around 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning -- yes, you read that right -- deep into a grueling council session that started at 7 p.m. the night before, council members voted 3-2 to table a decision to spend tens of thousands of dollars to retrofit the city's former city hall, said Councilwoman Kathryn Schramm, who is also a member of the arts council board. Council members could take up the issue again in as few as two weeks.

Though Schramm and other elected officials support making the former city hall into a space for the arts council to hold classes, workshops and rehearsals, Schramm said she needed more information about how the city would finance the project.

"I wanted to know where the money was going to come from," Schramm said.

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