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Board reallocates $70,000 in tourism marketing funds after public appeals to save visitor center
Summary
After hours of public comment and debate, Trinity County supervisors reallocated $70,000 in marketing/transient-occupancy-tax funds among local groups, set aside $30,000 for a tourism-investment-district planning effort, and approved $6,000 for the Weaverville/Trinity County Visitor Center. The vote was unanimous.
Trinity County supervisors voted Dec. 3 to reallocate $70,000 budgeted for tourism and marketing to local organizations and a tourism-investment-district (TBID) planning effort after an extended public-comment period that focused on the future of the county visitor center and the potential for cannabis-related tourism.
After a review process that used out-of-county panelists to score proposals, multiple rounds of board discussion and several amendments, the board's final allocation placed $30,000 toward TBID planning and distributed the remaining $40,000 among local organizations as follows: Weaverville Chamber of…
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