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Beaumont council moves to allocate $100,000 to annual charity festival; additional funding to be revisited
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Beaumont City Council members moved to approve $100,000 in city funding for the annual charity festival and directed council liaisons to meet with festival partners and the Parks District before returning additional funding requests to the next meeting.
Beaumont City Council members moved to approve $100,000 in city funding for the city's annual charity festival and directed council liaisons to meet with festival partners and the Parks District before bringing any additional funding requests back at the next meeting.
Festival organizers told the council they are pursuing a formal nonprofit structure and want the event to serve as a year-round community catalyst rather than solely an annual celebration. A representative for the event described proposals for expanded ticket-subsidy programs and said organizers have discussed seeking roughly $150,000 to $200,000 to cover entertainment and resident ticket subsidies.
The organizer said, “we are actually looking to, revision and rebrand ourselves as a…
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