More U review

Last week, Mammoth’s Measure U Steering/Application Committee met to review the pilot awards process, but also to discuss opportunities for applications that weren’t fully funded during the initial recommendations in light of additional money that will be accrued through the end of June. The Committee had $653,215 in Measure U funding to spread around, nowhere near enough to meet the $1.16 million in total requests submitted by the eight applicants. Particularly interested in the second chance: Mammoth Lakes’ Events Coalition, a consortium of new and veteran events, which asked for $88,600 and got $59,215 of that. MLEC argues that many of their events are proven generators of tax and other revenue, which the Town can tap into sooner rather than later. Town Council previously sent back the recommendations list for more work. The Committee opted to wait until the current Measure R funding cycle is complete, and plans to meet again on June 13 regarding additional Measure U funding.