The Downtown Economic Development District, which is made up of Lafayette City Council members, has greenlighted funding for a new downtown ambassador program. The program stands as a way to manage and maintain Downtown and will receive support worth $375,000 over the next three years. The funds are procured by the Downtown EDD through a 1% sales tax and a 2% hotel occupancy tax, with the current fund holding roughly $2.3 million. The state of the fund could be boosted with further downtown developments like announced hotel projects. The Downtown Development Authority’s CEO, Kevin Blanchard, posits that implementing such an ambassador program would be a more productive utilization of EDD funds than short-lived infrastructure projects. He envisions the funds being able to sustain approximately four ambassadors to begin with, with future plans to double this workforce. The process to request for proposals commences soon, with submissions closing in January.

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