{"id":95554,"date":"2016-02-22T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95554"},"modified":"2016-02-23T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:06:56","slug":"tourism-looking-at-tax-funding-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95554","title":{"rendered":"Tourism looking at tax funding process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Swedlund.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10234\" alt=\"Swedlund\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Swedlund-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Swedlund-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Swedlund-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Swedlund.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism wants to talk over with City of Jamestown officials the process by which funds are used from the 1 percent local restaurant tax in regards to local tourism sites.<\/p>\n<p>In his report to the Jamestown Tourism full board Monday, Tourism Executive Director, Searle Swedlund said a city ordinance directs 20 percent of that restaurant tax revenue toward capital construction projects for tourism sites in the city. A committee currently decides on where to allocate that funding, he said to the board, and Jamestown Tourism is approaching the city with the idea of partnering to develop a more appropriate process.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism propose a different approach or process that is more accessible&#8230;.an application process with criteria that would show how it would influence the visitor experience.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a completed draft printing of the Talking Trails project. It contains the language that will be used in a smartphone audio self-tour to 70 area historical and cultural sites around Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Swedlund noted that he initiated informal dialogue with a video producer to look at creating a brief video on the National Buffalo Museum. The company had done similar videos for other North Dakota tourism sites.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Lisa Barnick, encouraged Swedlund to reach out to local video media companies to compare with other proposals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism wants to talk over with City of Jamestown officials the process by which funds are used from the 1 percent local restaurant tax in regards to local tourism sites. In his report to the Jamestown Tourism full board Monday, Tourism Executive Director, Searle Swedlund said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95599,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95554\/revisions\/95599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}