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Austin live music fund collections down 18% year-to-date; city narrows noncompliance on FY23 grants
Summary
City staff reported an 18% year‑to‑date decline in hotel-occupancy-tax receipts supporting the Live Music Fund and described progress closing out legacy FY2023 grant reporting issues; 34 awardees remained noncompliant, staff said.
City staff told the Austin Music Commission on Sept. 8 that hotel-occupancy-tax (HOT) receipts designated for the Live Music Fund are down about 18% year to date compared with 2024, and that staff are continuing efforts to close out outstanding reporting from the first Live Music Fund cohort.
Kim McCarson, program manager for the Music and Entertainment Division in Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME), told the commission that July HOT collections for the Live Music Fund were $21,687 compared with $716,095 in July 2024 and that year-to-date encumbrances were reported as $3,254,590. “So the year to date encumbrances number is 3,254,590 but that represents … an 18% less year to date,” McCarson said, adding that she did not yet have an explanation for the difference.
Why it matters: HOT receipts feed the Live Music Fund and other arts and cultural programs; a sustained shortfall can reduce grant dollars available…
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