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Response 1: The project event underway is to open the doors to an Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Project/Event Fame Museum. The quest of ERHOF is to have a building to display the many Description * historical artifacts accrued since its inception in 1997. This space has finally been secured at 414 N. Pearl St., formerly the Downtown Pharmacy with a 15 -year lease agreement With the Clymer Museum. The ERHOF Board of Directors has raised funds over the last eight years and has now begun work on remodeling the 2,200 square foot space preparing it for a 2020 opening. The plan is to open to the public early in the coming year. The flooring, lighting, display furniture and plan to open a doorway that connects it to the Clymer Museum is underway. The current front door will become a fire eat so as to minimize staffing needs. We have completed structural and architectural plans to date. The tourism market audience is extensive. All who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame over the last 22 years numbering #123 are invested in seeing this museum become public. Our Induction Banquet and Art Auction held annually includes national and local contestants, participants like clowns, judges and announcers, trick riders, stock contractors, volunteer organizers, pioneer rodeo families and famous livestock. There is a large national audience from the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). The Ellensburg Rodeo will be celebrating it's 100 -year anniversary in 2023 and we have begun a collaboration with RFD TV and the Cowboy Channel to reach a very large audience. Many of our over 100 members and contributors include large groups of people like the Past Royalty, the Top Hands, the Yakama Indian Nation, and the many sponsors of our events. Grant funds will be used for branding and venue promotions, brochures, print marketing, posters and banners plus on line marketing and ticket sales, radio, T.V., newspaper and magazine ads. We also do a quarterly newsletter and have video production of all our inductees. We will be consulting others about strategizing the best avenues to reach a large audience. 2500 character linit List of Intended Use of Funds* Printed Marketing Materials -Brochures Advertising-RAdio, TV, Magazines, Newpaper Promotions -Video Production Signage- WA State Department of Transportation 21 Projections of Increased Tourism Please provide the following estimates of how any money received will result in increases in the number of people traveling for business or pleasure on a trip: 1. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accommodations; 2. To a place fifty miles or more avvay from their place of residence or business for the day or staying overnight; 3. or from another country or state outside of their place of residence or business. You must provide the evidence utilized in determining your projections. Response 2.1: 1. Away fromtheir place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accom>odations; Projection * Projection of increased tourism comes from the experience of high interest in our many displays at the Western Culture and Art Center (formerly the Clymer) at the Kittitas County Chamber, Ellensburg Rodeo Office, and the Western Village at the rodeo grounds. During the rodeo and the many other events that we hold through out the year attendance has steadily increased. 2500 character linit Response 2.1. Pendleton Roundup Hall of Fame has shared their numbers with us with a steady Evidence* increase in audience since they opened in 2006. They have had over 4000 visitors with 70% being from out of state in the past year. 2500 character lirrit