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Shelbyville Bedford Partnership requests $100,000 from county to expand tourism, workforce and economic development
Summary
The Shelbyville Bedford Partnership presented a $100,000 funding request to the commission, outlined recent grant success and described a legal merger with the Chamber of Commerce; commissioners asked for more granular financial detail and ROI data.
Jody Lambert, chair of the Shelbyville Bedford Partnership, asked Bedford County commissioners during a work session to invest $100,000 in the nonprofit partnership to support tourism, workforce and economic development programs; commissioners did not vote on the request at the study session.
Lambert laid out the partnership's recent grant activity and economic arguments for public investment. He said the partnership secured about $138,400 in tourism-related grants and cited a Tennessee Department of Tourist Development study claiming that "for every $1 of expenditure on tourism advertising resulted in $11 of tax revenue," a figure he used to illustrate potential returns from modest county investment.
Why it matters: The partnership seeks public funding to expand programs that leaders say generate private-sector activity and sales tax revenue; commissioners pressed for more detailed, line-item financials…
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