Tourism will introduce budget for passage

Social distancing at tourism meeting.

Marion Tourism Commission spent almost three hours at its recent meeting working through the first draft of a budget for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.

The group discussed developing a new part-time job description and some cost-cutting measures, including the elimination of its funding for Marion Main Street, Inc. The Main Street director, Susan Alexander, had also served as an office assistant to the tourism commission.

The commission’s spending plan which will be introduced for final passage at a meeting on Tuesday, June 9. For more details on the commission's proposed budget, see our full edition of The Crittenden Press.  You can subscribe online to the full version of the newspaper for only $2.95 a month. Click here to subscribe.