The local travel and tourism development agency known as Experience B/CS may still get future hotel occupancy tax (HOT) funds from the cities of Bryan and College Station.
That’s if the two cities and the organization formerly known as the convention and visitors bureau (CVB) and agree on new bylaws before the end of July.
College Station city councilman Jerome Rektorik calls the CVB’s current bylaws “dysfunctional”, that allows the board to do virtually anything it wants.
Rektorik, who is a city representative on the CVB board, wants to eliminate the agency’s executive board and reorganize the general board to a seven member body that includes two members representing the College Station council and one from Bryan.
Bryan city councilman Ben Hardeman told WTAW News changing bylaws was one of the two requirements he had for the city to continue giving money to the agency.
CVB board chairman Jim Ross wants to continue the relationship with the cities. Ross also said they need to show the cities that they are willing to change and to overcome what he believes has been a strained relationship for some time.
The deadline by the end of July is in order to give the city councils time to decide how much hotel occupancy tax money will be given to the agency in their next fiscal year.
Click below to hear comments from Jerome Rektorik and Jim Ross from the June 30, 2017 Experience B/CS (CVB) board meeting.