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First CVB board meeting names an interim director and accepts the City agreements
At its first meeting the CVB board elected officers, voted 7-2 to name Kashion Smith interim executive director, and unanimously accepted a lease for space in the Bivins Mansion, an agreement for City accounting, legal, investment and management services on the City's financial system, and the agreement authorizing the CVB to administer hotel-motel occupancy tax money. Reviewing the 2020/21 budget, Smith said deep cuts had been made and that previous deferments on payments for Hodgetown had depleted the bureau's reserves. In January 2021 the board named Smith executive director.[1][2]
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On October 1, 2020 the board voted to name Kashion Smith interim executive director, with seven members in favor and two against. The minutes say it "was also thought best to wait to name an Executive Director until after the civic center expansion vote." On January 27, 2021 the board voted unanimously, on the hiring committee's motion, to name Smith executive director. [1][2]
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The board unanimously accepted three agreements with the City: the Bivins Mansion lease; an agreement "for the provision of accounting, investment and management information services utilizing the City's financial accounting and reporting system and following the City's fiscal year"; and an agreement that "authorizes the CVB to act as administrator of the hotel-motel room occupancy tax money collected." [1]
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Kashion Smith, CVB interim executive director: Reviewing the 2020/21 budget, which the previous Convention and Visitor Council board had approved, Smith said "deep cuts have had to be made," that "next year's projected budget of $880,000 may go up," and that "previous deferments on payments for Hodgetown have depleted our reserves." The minutes do not give the deferred amounts. [1]
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Later minutes refer to the bureau's annual debt payment without always naming it: in August 2022 Smith said "our Hodgetown payment has been made"; in October 2022 the finance director said reserves would be slightly over $1 million "after our bond payment"; in January 2024 a line "for the bond payment" was added to the hotel tax collections report; and in April 2024 the bureau's hotel tax disbursements were described as "our portion of the HOT collections minus the debt service." [3][4][5][6]
