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Committee authorizes $664,675 from occupancy-tax reserve to cover municipal awards, events and travel guide production

5807135 · August 19, 2025
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Summary

The tourism committee resolved to appropriate $664,675.36 from the occupancy-tax reserve to cover previously approved municipal projects, event awards, a travel-guide design cost and small contract carryovers; staff warned cash-on-hand is negative until late summer receipts arrive.

Warren County’s tourism committee approved appropriating $664,675.36 from the occupancy-tax reserve to cover a mix of previously approved municipal funding, event awards and one-time production costs the tourism office said were not budgeted earlier.

Tourism staff said the request aggregates multiple line items in a single resolution to simplify appropriations. Heather, tourism staff, told the committee the $664,675.36 includes $318,850 already awarded to 60 municipal projects plus $100,000 to the City of Glens Falls (for which only $50,000 had been budgeted), additional event awards and a $67,071 creative-design…

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