PORT ANGELES — Another Cascadia Center for the Performing and Literary Arts funding request and other uses for the current conference center subsidy were debated by Lodging Tax Advisory Committee members Thursday afternoon.
But no action was taken.
The 10-person committee advises the City Council on uses for the city’s bed tax revenues, which are collected from guests staying overnight at hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and other lodging establishments.
Cascadia Vice President Brian Pettyjohn asked the committee Thursday for $88,400 to fund rewriting of Cascadia’s business plan to pursue “large dollar financing and grant programs” plus advertising and administrative costs.
The Cascadia group has proposed a $55.7 million performing arts and conference center that Pettyjohn said “will be ready” by the fall of 2006.
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