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Commissioners signal short-term continuity for municipal rec grants while reviewing long-term TRCC priorities

Utah County Board of Commissioners · June 10, 2020
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Summary

Staff told commissioners COVID-19 has reduced TRT/TRCC revenues and left the TRCC exposed by convention-center bond payments; commissioners instructed staff to proceed with the same rec-grant amount this year but to notify cities the program's long-term structure and eligibility will be reevaluated.

Ezra Nair of the Utah County Commission Office told commissioners the Tourism Tax Advisory Board recommended a modest reduction in municipal recreation grant funding and that COVID-19 has significantly reduced TRT and TRCC revenue. Nair said convention-center bond payments are being paid with a portion of TRT and noted state law currently limits using more than one-third of that fund for the bond payment, creating roughly…

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