Funding source for museum project

A committee of the Seneca City Council recommends a funding source for the project to build the city’s African-American history museum. At a meeting this morning, the finance committee recommended the use of up to $600 thousand of Light and Water funds to build the Bertha Strickland Museum on the block between S. 1st and 2nd streets behind the city’s other museum—the Lunney Museum. The recommendation that is to reach the desks of the full city council next week calls for Seneca to borrow the money from Light and Water’s peak-shaving account and re-pay it through the collection of hospitality and accommodations tax monies. Joel Seavey, city financial director, says he projects the money can be re-paid in five years.