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Future Plans*Thanks to public support at the State,County and City levels,we expect the covered arena structure to be completed in 2020.This keystone addition will allow us to host larger events,extend the season into at least March and November as well as attract many activities and groups that require a covered competition space. Already there are a lot of inquiries about the arena,but organizers of large shows will wait to inspect the new facility before they will commit to holding a show there. We expect that in five years the calendar and revenue generating impacts of the covered arena will be largely realized,especially if we are able to add more stabling and parking to accommodate the expected demand. We have an annual business sponsorship campaign and ongoing donor solicitation.The Park will hold its forth major auction dinner gala on November 9th at the the Sahalee Country Club to raise awareness and funding for operations and capital projects.We continue to have significant volunteer support from many individuals and groups. Communication about what we are doing is absolutely critical to building broader interest and support.The Lodging Taxíunds continue to be a major help to us in promoting the Park,the events we're offering and communicating the broader messages about how to help sustain the Park. 2500 character lirrit Application Questions:Part 4 6|Additional Information Provide any additional information which will assist the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee in evaluating your project and its benefit to tourism. Additional Information We use social media as a way to cost-effectively reach our far-flung and diverse audiences.Year-to-date we have achieved 197,064 Facebook "Reaches",an indicator of how many times a post was viewed by an individual at least once. We have been working to address some major obstacles with our current systems. Our Customer Relationship Management (CRM)system makes it difficult to store, sort and communicate appropriately with various contacts.This system was initially selected and utilized as a donor database,but we have much more robust operating needs in the online,digital age.For e×ample we have many people who want to reserve and pay for facilities online.We are in the middle of a complex project to evaluate options and implement improvements. In addition,our website is not easy to read or navigate with a mobile device and must be overhauled to meet today's online,"on our way"audiences.We also are unable to satisfy visitor needs with online registrations,ticket sales and debit/credit card payment options since we currently can only accept cash or check for most transactions,which creates many delays and turns some business away. Also,as the Park's 112 acre campus expands we need more informative,accurate and interactive mapping of facilities to help people understand what we have available and navigate once they are on the property. 2500 character lirrit Supporting Documents You rmy upload any supporting docuents such as graphs,images,diagrarna,rrerketing sterials,etc. 2019MetricsTable-Lodge Tax.pdf 88.18KB 2019 ZipCodeMap.pdf 391.34KB 2019 Event Calendar.pdf 216.56KB You are allowed to subtrit up to 3 single page (tJS Letter)docuents in J¾FDF or flFFformt 7|Previous Lodging Tax Grant Information