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?>v ll Plft 3f .ftep* ALBRIGHT* I think. here?╟╓syour authority statement? \.MK KoVBLLi 1 understand f rcmthe people running the Century 21., tShS*,.s-.-tyw; AL?½1?Θ╝SHI$ 1 wight Just, speak a wonent' on that since soitbody has seen fit to bring It up here, and that is simply this* about a year or so ago, we initiated a reservation program principally for the motels an the downtown hotels* the hotels on the strip did not care to participate With ?√ß y- End of Roll Ho. 9 ' ?╟╓ W increased room tax from three to four percent! that extra one per cent *** earmarked and agreed to be earmarked for publicity of the motel ; * industry# The reservation office, although we thought It was going to ?√ßwork, did not prove successful. How m knew that once this tax was |Jf?? it would not fee taken oif under the Bonding Convenant Ordinance. , it ceuldn t legally be removed, ho we do have approximately $100,000 in that fund ana it is administered by the Fair and recreation Board /Rfor the promotion of travel to Us particularly for motel ilCK ' There*s $100,000? '?√ß ;. wmw mwmiGHtI e?╟╓ll take it, ALiftXGHT* well, now, Just a minute. It isn?╟╓t quite as easy ' ?╜t?f'ft?╜ Aave in the r,os Angeles area, six large revolving monthly Billboards that costs us $3,375 a month* fre have under tbsty at the present time, a program to convert those to about fifty paper boards that will give us a much greater saturation than we*re getting with the 5fXf although we may not show them to any more people because of S^the choice locations that these boards have, he have divided Los *?? *?8 s,'?½yfSty ?½hd Orange County up Into about seven areas and the thinking jjthe present time and this is not convirmtd, is to go into #? .*?√ß**?.seven sections on a saturation program, as th these boards at v ?√ß same time in an effort to try to do something, and the motel people nave representatives that meet with us, s^ra?? pretty much as you people are doing here and it is not only our thinking, but theirs, and Inasmuch as this is their money they certainly have the right to reeopsend where it*a spent, whether this committee approves it or whether it doesn t. It doesn?╟╓t have anything to do with' it, actually, fir !'nf? ?e** W: have it under study, and 1% sure, Eugene,'that if we find what you say to be true, (they will not be used. Then ffj"'?║f Into %n%% . p#rfc??a Highway H??# l $ and com?? ??f ?╜ *?½av,In9 Seattle with an intelligent program of trying to sell them on the ides of returning home by way of Las Vegas. As 1 f*Ih.A;S |f under study sfio probably mil, be at least another month ***of facts and figures are in before it has been decided 41?½*:- Program will run somewhere in the neighborhood of two to thru# thousand dollars a month. , ' .