In March, the Board approved for the money to be spent:
https://www.enr.com/articles/62694-kennedy-center-board-approves-257m-rehab-two-year-shutdown
The Board are almost all appointees by President Trump.
Understand about today, but how did the building opened in 1971 get so bad that it requires this much money and this much time?
Note, I live in a 1963 built house that has been maintained and upgraded over the decades. So keeping on top of a building can be done. So why did the previous boards allow the center to be in such disrepair? That’s the 257 million dollar question?
So bottom line, these previous boards were very poor caretakers of a public facility! Which is the point of my comments. Almost dare I say (dare, dare, dare) criminal!