From: JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Subject: Fwd: Museum's use of City Room Tax question Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 17:35:29 +0000 Message-id: <CO2PR0601MB727B32C09AFDD5FE975574487930@CO2PR0601MB727.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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From: tomahmuseum@charter.net
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 4:37 PM
Subject: Museum's use of City Room Tax
To: JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
Janet,
Would you please send this out to the other Historical Societies and Museum
's in the State?
How many of you are receiving funds from your city's Room Tax? (which is s
upposed to be used only by non-profits and to be used exclusively for touri
sm)
We are building a new museum and it was suggested that we should approach o
ur City Council to see if we could obtain a share of the City's Room Tax.
We we turned down, as was the local Area Community Theatre who also asked f
or funding for their building project. We we told that 51% of our expenses
had to go directly for tourism and that we did not fit that category accor
ding to State Statues and do not qualify according to our City Administrato
r, the City Council immediately voted us both down. The City Chamber of Co
mmerce Tourism and Vistor's bureau gets the entire amount each month.
Thanks for you comments.
Jim