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After debate over HOT funds and fund balance, Cleburne approves $100,000 for Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum

5567022 · August 12, 2025
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Summary

Following lengthy discussion about hotel-occupancy-tax revenue and the city's fund balance, the council approved $100,000 for the Johnson County Heritage Foundation's Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum, less than the $130,000 the museum requested.

The Cleburne City Council voted 4-1 to approve a Chapter 380 economic development agreement providing $100,000 to the Johnson County Heritage Foundation for operations of the Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum.

Museum representatives asked the council for $130,000 (and earlier materials showed an original $150,000 request). In a presentation, a museum representative said staff had tracked 37,477 visitors through midyear and reported that the site had used 231 hotel room…

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