Hotel Room Rental Tax Grants | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Request | 2009 Actual |
Agricultural Fairs | $3,000 | $3,200 | $3,200 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
ArtsQuest (Musikfest) | $21,000 | $46,000 | $0 | $23,000 | $0 |
Atlas Cement Memorial Museum | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $0 | $0 |
Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $20,000 | $20,000 | $20,000 | $20,000 | $10,000 |
Bachmann Publick House | $17,500 | $10,000 | $10,000 | $0 | $0 |
Bath Borough Log Cabin | $17,500 | $17,500 | $17,500 | $0 | $0 |
Bethlehem Marketing | $2,500 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Celtic Fest | $4,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
Delaware Shad Tournament | $7,000 | $8,000 | $8,000 | $8,000 | $4,000 |
Easton City (Ambassador Program) | $0 | $10,000 | $35,000 | $35,000 | $20,000 |
Easton Farmers Market | $10,500 | $10,500 | $10,500 | $24,000 | $12,000 |
Easton Marketing | $2,500 | $0 | $0 | $25,000 | $0 |
Gov. Wolf Historical Society | $9,600 | $10,100 | $10,100 | $17,610 | $3,500 |
Historic Bethlehem Partnership | $0 | $16,800 | $16,800 | $17,640 | $16,800 |
Historical Society | $25,200 | $30,000 | $30,000 | $100,000 | $30,000 |
Jacobsburg Historical Society | $10,000 | $10,500 | $10,500 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
Kreidersville Covered bridge | $0 | $13,400 | $13,400 | $82,137 | $13,400 |
Lehigh & Keystone RR Club | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $0 | $0 |
Lehigh Tp. Historical Society | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $0 | $0 |
LV Arts Council | $0 | $2,500 | $2,500 | $12,750 | $3,800 |
LV Convention and Visitors Bureau | $640,340 | $744,093 | $746,000 | $0 | $746,000 |
Lower Saucon Tp Historical Society | $2,500 | $2,700 | $2,700 | $0 | $0 |
Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary | $0 | $0 | $4,000 | $0 | $0 |
Miss Pennsylvania | $0 | $0 | $0 | $10,000 | $2,500 |
Moravian Historical Society | $6,300 | $6,600 | $6,600 | $17,910 | $6,600 |
Nat'l Canal Museum | $16,000 | $16,000 | $16,000 | $17,375 | $5,200 |
North'mptn Area Historical Society | $16,900 | $17,800 | $18,900 | $198,000 | $7,200 |
North'mptn Community College | $75,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Northern Lehigh Future Focus | $0 | $2,500 | $2,500 | $0 | $0 |
Slate Belt Heritage Center | $2,200 | $2,300 | $2,300 | $2,400 | $2,400 |
State Theatre | $0 | $0 | $50,000 | $55,000 | $25,000 |
SteelStax performing Arts Center | $0 | $0 | $86,128 | $0 | $87,800 |
SteelStax Public Broadcasting center | $0 | $0 | $86,127 | $0 | $87,800 |
Sun Inn Preservation Ass'n | $0 | $0 | $0 | $8,000 | $0 |
Walnutport Canal Ass'n | $5,000 | $5,500 | $5,500 | $28,750 | $5,500 |
Zoellner Arts Center | $0 | $0 | $0 | $33,125 | $0 |
Future Grants | $0 | $0 | $5,997 | $0 | $19,000 |
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Northampton County's 2009 Quality of Life Grants
Northampton County currently imposes a 4% hotel room rental tax. This revenue must be used to promote tourism and community development. For reasons that elude me, these are called "quality of life" grants in Northampton County's 2009 proposed budget. They are detailed below.
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The funny, yet tragic thing about all of this QUALITY OF LIFE GRANT MONEY is that nothing trickled down to improve the lives in A-town. Bethlehem and Easton received money for very specific items, meanwhile we have to depend on the citizens of Allentown to create events and art shows that are open for ALL the public to see. I said it before and I'll say it again, it's not WHAT you know, but WHO you know...
ReplyDeleteAlfonso Todd
Alfonso, A few weeks ago, I had a post about "quality of life" grants in Allentown, which even included Pip the Mouse.
ReplyDeleteWhy should Northampton tax dollars be directed to Allentown?
ReplyDelete::sheesh::
Alfonso, Mr. Stoffa already gave half the proposed Casino revenues away to Allentown and Lehigh County.
ReplyDeleteThat is money not available to Northampton County or the muncipalities. I think that is more than enough help.