WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A draft contract got its first step of approval on Wednesday afternoon.
Wausau’s Room Tax Commission met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss a new proposed contract between the City and the Wausau/Central Wisconsin Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB). The two parties came to a Memorandum of Understanding in late March shortly after former CVB Executive Director Richard Barrett retired from the position.
After a review of the MOU, a draft contract with the CVB was put together by City Attorney Anne Jacobson and Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg. Jacobson said she looked at Rib Mountain’s contract with the CVB to put together Wausau’s new contract. “We changed the term from 2 to 1 year.
“And I also put in a termination without cause of 30 days written notice. So we don’t have to allege a breach or a material breach of the contract to get out of it in the future. So there’s enough protections built in that we should be okay,”.
The Room Tax Commission had few questions about the new contract. Commission member and Alder Lisa Rasmussen mentioned that everything the Commission wanted to see in the contract was there. “It appears that almost everything that we had asked for, the terms of transparency and the seats at the table for important discussions surrounding the relationship with the CVB, they’ve been agreeable to,”.
Wausau won’t be the only municipality approving a new contract with the CVB in the near future. Rosenberg says the City has also been having discussions with Weston and Rib Mountain about their new contracts. She expects the other municipalities to have similar agreements with CVB as well.
The draft contract was approved unanimously by the Room Tax Commission. The draft now goes onto the Finance Committee for approval at their meeting next week. More information about CVB’s side of the contract is expected at that meeting as the group also met on Wednesday to discuss their ongoing Executive Director search.
