Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 12:24:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Ripon Historical Society <riponhistsoc@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1532056635.2258023.1526559842096@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: Museum's use of City Room Tax question
Ripon Historical Society receives no funding from the City of Ripon.
Carol SachenBoard Member
The Ripon Historical Society (http://riponhistory.com) is a 501(c)(3) not-f
or-profit organization operated entirely by volunteers. We are unable to ch
arge for service but gratefully accept donations, which are tax deductible.
Send to: Treasurer, Ripon Historical Society, 508 Watson Street, Ripon, WI
54971
On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 12:55:04 PM CDT, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR <janet.s
eymour@wisconsinhistory.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>
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 supposed to be used only by non-profits and to be used exclusively for
tourism)
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 for 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 ca
tegory according to State Statues and do not qualify according to our City
Administrator, the City Council immediately voted us both down. The C
ity Chamber of Commerce Tourism and Vistor's bureau gets the entire amount
each month.
Thanks for you comments.
Jim