After years of planning, the City of Davenport and the Figge Art Museum have signed a new contract. Mayor Frank Klipsch and Museum Board President Cindy Carlson held a ceremonial signing this (mon) afternoon.
Carlson says the current agreement was set to expire in 2023, but the new agreement extends it to 2030 with automatic five-year renewals. The city's annual payment will rise from 753,000 dollars to 800,000 dollars starting in 2026.
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Carlson says the money is not city funding, but payment for services rendered, in this case for the care, preservation, and exhibition of Davenport's art collection.
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The museum was founded in 1925 when former Davenport Mayor Charles Ficke (FIK-ee) gave his collection of over 300 works of art to the City of Davenport.
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.