SUBJECT:
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Request Approval of Tourist Development Council Funding Request for American Junior Golf Association, INC. for the Billy Horschel Junior Championships presented by Zurich for 2024, 2025, and 2026 (Budget Impact - Neutral; expenditure of $30,000 total, $10,000 per year as approved in the FY 2023-24 budget)
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Loretta Shaffer, Director |
Tourist Development |
DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND:
The Tourist Development Council (TDC) seeks funding approval for organizations that have festivals, events, or programs which support the TDC’s mission of growing the economy and accelerating prosperity in Marion County through effective destination sales and marketing. This funding contract is for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Billy Horschel Junior Championships presented by Zurich to be held October 9-13, 2024; October 8-12, 2025 and October 7-11, 2026 at Adena Golf and Country Club. This event was recommended for funding by the TDC at their regularly scheduled meeting on March 28,2024. The TDC recommends funding this event for 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Billy Horschel Junior Championships presented by Zurich $10,000 per year
BUDGET/IMPACT:
Neutral; expenditure of $10,000 as approved in the FY 2023-24 budget. Funding from CP155552-548101.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
Motion to approve the Tourist Development Council funding request, make findings that the event has as one of its main purposes the attraction of tourists and that the funding program promotes tourism in the State of Florida, and authorize the Chair and Clerk to execute attached funding agreement.
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