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Fairgrounds staff outline budget squeeze, grant work and infrastructure progress
Summary
Fairgrounds managers told commissioners they are pursuing grants, sponsorship revenue and cost reductions to reduce a large operating shortfall and described infrastructure work to complete pump-house hookups and consolidate meters.
Fairgrounds managers told Okanogan County commissioners they are pursuing a mix of grant funding, sponsor revenue and operational adjustments to reduce a substantial operating deficit. "We're just trying to make it not as, without a better word for it, as big a black hole," one fairgrounds speaker said when asked about cutting a roughly $122,000 shortfall.
Staff described ongoing infrastructure work: the pump house has been installed and connected to domestic lines except for the annex; county…
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