{"id":16016,"date":"2015-04-20T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krtnradio.com\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:53:40","slug":"council-denies-tourism-marketing-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/20\/council-denies-tourism-marketing-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Council denies tourism marketing contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WJ-250x55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15376 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" alt=\"WJ  250x55\" src=\"http:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WJ-250x55.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a>by Kimberly Adams<\/p>\n<p>TRINIDAD \u2014 The Trinidad City Council last week voted unanimously to deny the marketing contract recommendation by the Trinidad Tourism Board after discussing the issue at length March 10 during a work session.<br \/> Tourism board members Fred Vaugeois and Pat Patrick appeared before the city council last month to recommend marketing firm ZIV, LLC of Kansas who also has an office located in Boulder. \u00a0The firm came out ahead of a business from Texas with local ties, and Square One, Inc. of Trinidad. \u00a0Cy Michaels is the chairman of the tourism board<br \/> Mayor Pro Tem Carol Bolton asked Vaugeois and Patrick why the local firm was not picked during the March work session. \u00a0The two tourism board members explained all three applicants were considered equally. \u00a0A score sheet for the three applicants was utilized and each company was given a one-on-one interview, where all were asked the same questions. \u00a0Vaugeois and Patrick also noted the tourism board adhered to the city&#8217;s RFP (Request for Proposals) process.<br \/> The one-year tourism marketing contract, a $150,000 expenditure item, is funded by the city lodging tax. \u00a0HessArts of Trinidad previously held the marketing contract, but ended it with the city and the tourism board towards the end of 2014.\u00a0<br \/> City council member Anthony Mattie was curious to know why ZIV, LLC was picked over the other two marketing contract applicants. \u00a0Vaugeois cited professionalism and field of knowledge as their basis.<br \/> In review of the contract, it mentions branding and festivals as responsibilities of the contract holder. \u00a0Bolton questioned if those duties conflict with other local boards and non-profits such as the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce. \u00a0\u201cEveryone wants to do branding for Trinidad,\u201d Vaugeois said in response.<br \/> Council member Pat Fletcher said at the work session she had a hard time finding the ZIV, LLC business on the internet. \u00a0The company was formerly known as Boxspring Design until December 2014 according to the company&#8217;s Twitter account. \u00a0The company&#8217;s website is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/letsziv.com\/\">letsziv.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kimberly Adams TRINIDAD \u2014 The Trinidad City Council last week voted unanimously to deny the marketing contract recommendation by the Trinidad Tourism Board after discussing the issue at length March 10 during a work session. Tourism board members Fred Vaugeois and Pat Patrick appeared before the city council last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}