Who Wants Financial Support?

The Common Council Finance Committee meets at a special time this is afternoon at 5:30 p.m. The principal business of the meeting will be deciding how to divvy up the $20,000 from the Tourism Board's budget among the organizations seeking financial support for events from the City. The following ten groups have submitted applications for some part of the $20,000:

• Friends of Hudson Youth
• Flag Day
• Bindlestiff Cirkus After School Program
• Halloween Parade
• Open Studio Hudson 2019
• Friends of Oakdale Lake--Salsa in the Sand
• Basilica Hudson--Triptych
• The Hudson Eye
• Bangladeshi-American Community Festival
• Hudson Hall--Winter Walk

During the Tourism Board's many discussions about giving back $20,000 of the lodging tax revenue earmarked for supporting tourism to continue the traditional of having $20,000 in City funds available to community events, it was always questioned if the events that typically received support from the City brought visitors to Hudson. It will be interesting to see if a program or event's potential to bring visitors to the city will factor into the Finance Committee's decision making.
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