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Local vendor warns outsourcing venue management could hurt nonprofits and vendors
Summary
A Wichita Falls business owner told the council that outsourcing management of the Kay Yeager Coliseum and the Impact complex risks higher costs for nonprofits and could harm local vendors, citing experiences from a previous Spectra contract and naming firms under consideration.
Bob Mayfield, president of Marcom Products, told the Wichita Falls City Council on Aug. 19 that outsourcing management of the Kay Yeager Coliseum and the Impact complex could increase costs for local nonprofits and vendors and risk losing existing business relationships. "My company is an advertiser in the Kay Yeager Coliseum and a vendor for other advertisers in the Impact," Mayfield said. He told the council more than half his business supports local nonprofits and warned organizations that operate on tight budgets "cannot afford significant price…
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