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Commissioner proposes nonprofit take over town events, funnel tourism revenue back to general fund
Summary
Commissioner Tufano proposed shifting staging and payment for Matthews events to a nonprofit (possible use of Matthews Live) that would receive tourism funds and invoice the town for services; legal staff flagged legal and governance risks and commissioners asked for follow-up with Matthews Live and budget timing.
Commissioner Tufano proposed that a nonprofit be made permanently responsible for staging Matthews’ public events — from food‑truck Fridays to Matthews Live — and that tourism revenue be paid to that nonprofit, which would in turn pay for police, clean‑up, park rentals and other costs and return proceeds to the town’s general fund.
The plan, Tufano said, “would be to have a party event organization take over everything completely, remove the town from any and everything that has to do with events and then turn around and receive the money back into the general fund for rental.” He estimated the arrangement could return “somewhere in the neighborhood of a 100 to a $150,000 a year” to the town, while leaving invoicing for services (police, park rental, utilities) to the town.
Town legal counsel said the idea is novel and carries risk. “It is neither explicitly legal nor…
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