Dalton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Brett Huske will be taking on some extra duties over the next few months.
The board of the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center voted recently to hire Huske as a transition consultant. Huske will advise the board as it plans to resume management of the daily operations of the trade center when Global Spectrum’s management contract ends on Dec. 31.
“We hope by Jan. 1 to have our organizational chart completed and all the other details worked out, so that when Global Spectrum’s contract ends we are ready to step right in with our own system,” said Dan Rogers, trade center chairman.
Trade center board members unanimously voted in August to end Global Spectrum’s management contract, saying they wanted to go in a different direction. Global Spectrum, a Philadelphia-based firm that manages approximately 75 convention centers, arenas and stadiums around the nation, has managed the trade center for the past four years.
Rogers said the trade center will pay Huske a consulting fee for his work.
“We haven’t determined that fully. It will be in the $12,000 to $15,000 range for the four months,” he said.
Huske did not immediately return a telephone message left at his office Wednesday afternoon.
Built 21 years ago, the trade center is jointly owned by the city of Dalton and Whitfield County. The legislation that created it mandates both governments cover its operating deficit equally, which is projected to be some $950,000 this year.
The trade center was run as a Dalton city department until 2002, with the city covering the first $250,000 of any shortfalls, and the trade center authority was an advisory panel. In that year, the Dalton City Council and the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners gave the authority responsibility for managing the trade center, in part to help rein in its large operating deficits.
Members of the Board of Commissioners and the City Council are discussing a plan for the county to cede its share of ownership and financial responsibility for the trade center to the city as part of their negotiations on how Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) revenue will be split over the next decade.
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September 6, 2012
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