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Originally Posted by justjim
I don't have a problem with TV getting such a Grant. Several moons ago I was involved in evaluating grant proposals and sit on a State Advisory committee and we volunteered to evaluate, along with State Staff, tourism grant applications. There should be a method and criteria to evaluate the intended results of such a Grant and that would/should have been included in the RFP (request for proposal) and TV'S proposal itself. If the results were to be evaluated, it would be interesting how they proposed to do it. Every guest we have for the first time, we usually take them to the entertainment at one of the squares. A lot of the time they spend money at the stores and/or vendors----this in turn generates sales tax for the county. Consumer spending----this is the engine of our economy.
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So in this world of being overtaxed and overburdoned with regulations, your ok with taking money out of peoples pockets to give to people who can well afford to provide? Taking money from peoples pockets that would be spending that money in local businesses, at least according to this plan. These people will come to TV with or without music on the square. I would venture to say that the majority of people at the squares are folks that already live here anyways. Another example of tax cronyism......