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City administrator reports surge in Halloween visitors and staff retirements; council praises volunteers and urges voter turnout
Summary
City Administrator Adam Emmerich reported about 456,900 downtown visitors in October and announced that Chief Lee Hendrick will retire at year'end; Captain Tammy Carter also announced her retirement during the meeting and councilmembers thanked staff and urged residents to vote in the city election.
City Administrator Adam Emmerich told Cowley City Council on Nov. 3 that October's downtown events produced unusually large visitation numbers and that the city will see economic effects in coming weeks when hospitality fee data arrive.
"We had 456,900 people in downtown to visit downtown Halloween," Emmerich said, adding that the city's peak day was Oct. 18 with about 37,500 visitors and that the month represented nearly a 50% increase over the prior year. He said…
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