SUBJECT:
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Request Approval of Tourist Development Council Funding Request for Hooked on Wild Waters LLC for the Ocalapalooza Kayak Fishing Tournament for 2025 (Budget Impact - Neutral; expenditure of $17,000 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 2025 Ocalapalooza Kayak Fishing Tournament hosted by Hooked on Wild Waters LLC to be held February 20, 2025 - February 22, 2025. 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.
Ocalapalooza Kayak Fishing Tournament $17,000
BUDGET/IMPACT:
Neutral; expenditure of $17,000 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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