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Grand County tourism and film offices propose higher 2026 budgets, seek staff, vehicle and expanded marketing
Summary
The Moab Office of Tourism and the Moab-to‑Monument‑Valley Film Commission presented tentative 2026 budgets asking for a director salary adjustment, a part‑time administrative position, a dedicated scouting vehicle and larger marketing and familiarization budgets; the tourism advisory board recommended the requests and funding would come from Fund
Biega Metzner, the county film commissioner, and Allie Hartford, associate director of the Moab Office of Tourism, presented proposed 2026 budgets that ask the county to boost staffing, equipment and promotional spending to support film production and tourism marketing.
The requests include a proposed salary adjustment for the film‑commission director (presented as about $115,000 in the packet), a new part‑time administrative position budgeted at roughly $53,000, and a dedicated vehicle for scouting and production visits estimated at about $15,600. Metzner said those increases are intended to enable more on‑site support for incoming film crews and to avoid relying on a single usable county vehicle; she noted one existing vehicle is “not really usable” for scouting into higher‑clearance areas and that she sometimes uses personal vehicles or production rentals when meeting location scouts.
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