From: Historical Society <oahsm@att.net> Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 14:10:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Museum's use of City Room Tax question Message-Id: <A7D8E17A-15FD-4BD9-A4BD-08B0A013256D@att.net>
Oconomowoc Historical Society receives no funds from the City of Oconomowoc.
Nancy Lins, Administrator
103 W. Jefferson St. PO Box 245
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
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Web: oconomowochistoricalsociety.org
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> On May 15, 2018, at 12:35 PM, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <> On May 15, 2018, at 12:35 PM, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsin
history.org> wrote:
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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>
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> Janet,
> Would you please send this out to the other Historical Societies and Museu
m's in the State?
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> 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 touris
m)
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> 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. W
e we turned down, as was the local Area Community Theatre who also asked for
funding for their building project. We we told that 51% of our expenses ha
d to go directly for tourism and that we did not fit that category according
to State Statues and do not qualify according to our City Administrator, th
e City Council immediately voted us both down. The City Chamber of Commerce
Tourism and Vistor's bureau gets the entire amount each month.
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> Thanks for you comments.
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> Jim
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