Center City Commission boosting marketing budget by 37% in FY2010 - Memphis Business Journal:

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million. The budget is $9,173 less than 2009, freezing most expenses but focusing more onmarketing Downtown. The CCC froze stafc salaries at $1.3 million for the year, but allowed for possible 3 percent raisees in December atthe board’s Any raises would depend on how revenue projectionsz fared throughout the rest of the year. A large portionn of the funding, $2.7 million, comes from assessed value of commercial properties in the Centraol BusinessImprovement District. The CCC gets most of these revenues bylate fall, after property owner challenges have been The CCC’s advertising budget for the 2010 fisca l year, which starts in July is $232,000, which is up 37.
2 percent comparef to $169,000 last fiscal This is due to the CCC’s plan to launch its larges marketing campaign to date in order to support Downtownn retailers and other stakeholders. The CCC budget stil l has to be approved by the andthe . The CCC boarr also approved a resolutiob which would recommend change a state Senatw bill to alter state government representation onthe Currently, the state Senatse and House of Representatives have two representatives each on the CCC The proposed Senate bill would reduce that representation to one