This Monday I attended my first meeting as a member of the Tourism Development Authority. Since this is my first meeting I went with the flow listening to others comments mostly taking cues from precedence, hopefully in a few meetings I’ll be able to step up and get the hard questions answered. During the meeting I voted aye on $19,500 worth of tourism dollars to be presented to the county commissioners for a vote, $16,000 t0 the Cooperative Extension for the Franklin County Farm and Craft tour and 3500 to Louisburg College for the MLK concert. For the $16,000 it’s a no brainer that the event will only get bigger and better. The Farm and Craft tour has been going on for 4 years and they have grown it from 100 attendees to 1000, with a good majority of the visitors coming from outside the county. The funds for Lousiburg College were a slightly harder pill to swallow but a good one. We do have a precedent of awarding funds for concerts at LC. The College has a 1200 seat auditorium I see any and all events there as good for bringing visibility to one of the county’s biggest assets. Yes the math on this particular grant means they’ll have to bring in 750 people to break even, hopefully they can do more than that so that next time they might ask for less $$.
If anyone wants them here are the agenda, LC Grant application, and previous meeting’s minutes.
January 7, 2008 TDA board meeting agenda
Louisburg College TDA Application January 2008
November 2007 TDA Board Minutes
And since I’m new to this any and all comments are greatly appreciated.
Tags: Franklin County, TDA