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Local business leader raises transparency concerns over Beer Cheese Festival sponsorships
Summary
A restaurateur and former Main Street board member told the commission the Beer Cheese Festival committee —ailed to disclose sponsorship amounts, cost downtown businesses potential revenue and violated open-records expectations; new committee leadership says procedures are being corrected.
Business owner and former Main Street volunteer Chad Walker told the commission that past Beer Cheese Festival sponsorship decisions lacked transparency and may have cost downtown stakeholders more than $10,000 in sponsorship revenue.
Walker said he and other prospective beverage sponsors proposed packages in 2022 and 2024 and that a large local brewer (West 6, per open-records documents shared in the meeting packet) was recorded as paying $12,250 as last year's beverage sponsor. Walker said MeerTwin (a prior…
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