Jazz Museum Trumpets Its Budget Achievement

It's an accomplishment that the head of the American Jazz Museum enjoys talking about.

On July 1, Gregory Carroll, executive director of the museum, will have been on the job for exactly one year. At a recent meeting of the museum's board, Carroll provided a bit of positive news.

For the fiscal year that just wrapped up, the museum, which receives a subsidy from the city, actually made a small profit. And that's amazing, considering the economy.

Shortly after Carroll took the job, the museum was forced to trim $250,000 from its budget, a process that was handled without laying off employees. In his formal report to the board, Carroll praised his staff for making it happen.

“We made budget and a small profit," Carroll wrote. “Achieving this monumental outcome would not have been possible without the efforts of all the (jazz museum) staff. I'm grateful to this team for keeping the spending down and being creative in generating revenue even with all the odds stacked up against us. Bravo!"

When everything was said and done, the museum operation, which includes the gift shop and the Blue Room, made a profit of about $6,300.