2016 Northampton County Hotel Tax Grant Program Funding Recommendations

Criteria: Eligible Projects will further promote tourism facilities and community development initiatives, within Northampton County,
that enhance regional tourism. Projects that most effectively addressed each of the following criteria received preference:
The project will increase the number of visitors to the County;
The project has a clear budget that leverages other funding;
The project has an economic or culturally significant impact on the County; and,
The project demonstrates need for funding.
Applicant Name/Project

2015
Award

Project Title

2016
Request

2016
Recommendation

(The) Bach Choir of Bethlehem

109th Bethlehem Bach Festival

10,000.00 $

Atlas Cement Company Memorial

Museum

Purchase Digital Voice Recorder

3,000.00 $

Bath Farmers' Market

Bath Farmers' Market

4,400.00

Blue Valley Farm Show

Blue Valley Farm Show

Borough of Bath

Saving Siegfried Log Cabin

Borough of Hellertown

Hellertown Town Center Digital Kiosk

Celtic Cultural Alliance

2016 Celtic Classic Highland Games &

Festival
$

Downtown Bethlehem Association

Christmas City Village

Downtown Bethlehem Association

Website Redevelopment

Governor Wolf Historical Society

Monocacy Schoolhouse Heat & Air

Conditioning

30,000.00 $

16,238.00 $

11,000.00

Greater Easton Development

Partnership

Easton: Destination for Food, Arts,

Retail

6,500.00 $

24,000.00 $

24,000.00

Greater Easton Development

Partnership

Easton Ambassadors

20,000.00 $

20,000.00 $

20,000.00

Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of

Commerce

Visitor's Website for the City of

Bethlehem

800.00

6,850.00 $

5,000.00

3,500.00 $

13,000.00 $

6,000.00

36,500.00 $

17,800.00

12,450.00 $

6,500.00

15,000.00 $

30,000.00 $

22,000.00

15,000.00 $

46,200.00 $

14,000.00

800.00

13,000.00

25,000.00

15,000.00

45,820.00 $

40,000.00

23,270.00 $

15,000.00

3,500.00 $

11,000.00 $

5,600.00

65,000.00

Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites Docent on Main Program

1750-1761 Blacksmith Shop
Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites Demonstrations

20,000.00 $

Lehigh Township Historical Society

Lehigh Township Historical Society

Development 15

Lehigh Valley Arts Council, Inc.

Arts & Economic Prosperity Study

4,000.00 $

4,000.00

Miracle League of Northampton

County

Dugout Extension Project

7,000.00 $

7,000.00

Moravian Historical Society

Public Programming & Operational

Support

14,000.00 $

19,950.00 $

19,950.00

National Canal Museum

Tourism Development, National Canal

Museum

12,000.00 $

55,370.00 $

29,500.00

National Museum of Industrial History National Museum of Industrial History

50,000.00 $

25,000.00

Nazareth Cultural & Arts Commission,

LTD (Nazareth Center for the Arts)
Operational Management

8,000.00 $

10,000.00 $

8,400.00

Northampton Area Historical Society

Restoration of Siegfried Railroad

Station

25,000.00 $

50,600.00 $

25,000.00

Northampton County Historical &

Genealogical Society

Northampton County Historical

Collections & Museums

47,900.00 $

62,500.00 $

52,500.00

Nurture Nature Center

Building the Local Food Economy

15,000.00 $

23,240.00 $

23,240.00

Pennsylvania Jazz Collective

The Christmas City Summer Jazz

Festival

12,500.00 $

3,000.00

Plainfield Farmers' Fair

Supplement Support of Advertising for

Fair
$

2,300.00

2,000.00 $

2,000.00

Saucon Valley Farmers Market

Increasing Visitors to County & SV

Farmers Market

3,000.00 $

14,500.00 $

5,000.00

Slate Belt Heritage Center

Relaunching Homefront

2,580.00 $

2,580.00

SouthSide Film Institute

SouthSide Film Institute Programming

Expansion

9,000.00

Applicant Name/Project

2015
Award

Project Title

Restoration Repairs & Ballroom

State Theatre Center for the Arts, Inc. Carpet

Steelworkers' Archive, Inc.

Steeples & Steel

Totts Gap Arts Institute

Mobile Stage Lighting

Touchtone Theatre

Christmas City Follies

VIA Events, Inc.

Transportation & Marketing Plan for

Via Marathon

Totals

2016
Request

50,000.00 $

2016
Recommendation

46,546.00 $

46,546.00

5,120.00 $

5,120.00

9,664.75 $

4,000.00

2,500.00 $

2,500.00

5,000.00 $

20,000.00 $

15,000.00

5,000.00

363,100.00

753,198.75

481,036.00