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<br />TRAVEL: <br />------- <br />Municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue may not be spent for travel <br />for a person to attend an event or conduct an activity the <br />primary purpose of which is not directly related to the promotion <br />of tourism and the convention and hotel industry or the <br />performance of the person's job in a efficient and professional <br />manner. <br />Travel expenses incurred in conformance to the above use of the <br />occupancy tax will be paid or reimbursed upon submission and <br />approval of receipts. The Convention and Visitors Bureau will <br />pay approved expenses as per the following: <br />1. Sports, Vacation and Travel Show booth rental fees. <br />2. Automobile expenses of .22 per mile. <br />3. Convention registration up to two people. <br />4. Convention and/or Travel Show hotel room(s) for up to two <br /> people. <br />5. Per dium expenses for meals and out-of-pocket expenses up to <br /> $30.00. <br />6. Other travel related expenditures , not mentioned above, must <br /> be in compliance with state law and approved by the Convention <br /> and Visitors Bureau Committee. <br />ARTS PROMOTION: <br />--------------- <br />Members of the Convention and Visitors Bureau will meet during <br />the months November 1989 and January, March, May, July and <br />September of 1990 to consider approval of Arts Funding Request. <br />All applications must be submitted in accordance to the <br />specifications and required documents listed on the application <br />for Funding Request. <br />In considering grants or underwriting funding for arts projects, <br />the following policies are recommended to guide the Convention <br />and Visitors Bureau in approving fuhding for the arts. The <br />Convention and Visitors Bureau shall review and have final approval <br />of all dispersements of the budgeted funds for the promotion of the <br />arts. <br />1. Proposed arts projects mu,st meet the definition of arts as <br /> described in Section 351.101 (a)(4), of the Tax Code: the <br /> encouragement, promotion, improvement, and application of the <br /> arts, including instrumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk <br /> art, creative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, <br /> painting, sculpture, photography, graphic, and craft arts, motion <br /> picture, radio, television, tape and sound recording, and other <br /> arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and <br /> exhibition of these major art forms. <br />