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The county spent $6,000 last year for tourism, roughly three percent of a penny on the real estate tax. By contrast, other counties spent as much as two cents of their real estate tax revenue. If Rappahannock made a similar contribution, it would mean more than $300,000 annually toward tourism.
Much of the money goes to fund a matching grant from the Virginia Tourism Council. The Washington Hospitality and Visitors Association and the Rappahannock Association of Arts and the Community would also contribute small donations toward the grant.
If all goes as planned, the move would link Rappahannock to the state’s tourism Web site, made famous by the catchphrase, “Virginia is for lovers.”
“Rappahannock doesn’t have a presence there,” McCarthy said. “This will •rive us one.”
The funds would also contract with Laura Overstreet, a tourism professional originally from the City of Alexandria, who would work the Web site. McCarthy said Overstreet, who has a home in Rappahannock, would receive a formal title, “once I figure one out.”
At a meeting last week, the increases attracted little controversy from supervisors, some of whom said they had overcome their misgivings.
See TOURISM, Page A4
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