Marysville Sound

City Hall · Nov 10, 2025

$241,644 in 2026 tourism grants were scheduled for a council vote

The Nov. 10, 2025 City Council agenda included a recommended motion to approve $241,644 in Hotel/Motel Tax tourism grant awards selected by the city's Tourism Grant Committee 1.

What the records say

The Nov. 10, 2025 City Council agenda included a recommended motion to approve the Hotel/Motel Tourism Grant award recommendations made by the City of Marysville Tourism Grant Committee, in the amount of $241,644.00 1. The committee considered ten applications from six organizations and recommended grant awards for all proposed projects, with a staff presentation scheduled for the meeting 1. The attached funding list details $241,644 in recommended awards across ten projects and events, including the Strawberry Festival, several city-sponsored celebrations, and various tournaments and community events 1. The available records, which are the pre-meeting agenda materials, do not establish the meeting's outcome 1.

  • The recommended motion was to approve the Tourism Grant Committee's Hotel/Motel Tourism Grant award recommendations.
  • The recommended total award amount was $241,644.00 for 2026.
  • The committee considered ten applications from six organizations and recommended funding for all proposed projects, with a staff presentation planned for the council meeting.
  • The recommended funding list allocates amounts to ten recipients, led by $80,000 for the Maryfest, Inc. Strawberry Festival and $51,094 for the city's Strawberry Fields turf conversion project.

Why it matters

This vote determines which local tourism events, festivals, and visitor-promotion projects receive public lodging-tax funding for 2026, and how the city's $241,644 grant pool is distributed among them 1. Because the record reflects only a scheduled recommendation, the actual awards depend on the council's November 10, 2025 decision, which the supplied materials do not confirm 1.

What changed / what's next

  • Nothing has yet been decided; the record shows a recommended motion scheduled for consideration at the Nov. 10, 2025 meeting, not an adopted outcome 1.
  • The meeting's outcome is not established by the supplied agenda packet, so whether the council approved the full $241,644 recommendation is unconfirmed 1. The individual grant amounts listed in the recommendation are subject to the council's action 1.
  • The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.