· Context
City Manager memo describes the Civic Center as supported mainly by its own revenue and hotel tax
In a February 12, 2026 memorandum to the City Council framing a pre-budget workshop, City Manager Grayson Path wrote that the Civic Center Complex is not a General Fund department and is supported primarily through its own operating revenues and allocations of hotel occupancy tax, and recommended a separate, dedicated council discussion of the Civic Center rather than reopening the full debate at the workshop.[1]
What the sources say
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Grayson Path, City Manager (memorandum dated February 12, 2026): City Manager Grayson Path wrote that the Civic Center Complex "is not a General Fund department and is instead supported primarily through its own operating revenues and allocations of Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT)," and suggested that if the council wished, it schedule a dedicated discussion at which staff could present "options for reducing the HOT subsidy through operational and fee strategies, along with capital and facility-planning scenarios." [1]