Amador County – The Amador County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved $12,500 to the Amador Council of Tourism to finance the building and maintenance of the Amador County fair booth for this year’s California State Fair.

Executive Director Maureen Funk said the exhibit designer and builder will be Richard Bey, who built the fair exhibit last year. After the board’s approval, she showed a mock-up of the fair booth idea, which will have a railroad “speeder” car, without a top, at the center of the design.

At the center will be a map with signage and a video, and other aspects of Amador County will be reflected, including with a display of county wines, a mine head frame and mining car, scale models of the Kennedy Mine head frame and tailing wheel, and snow-covered mountains in the distance. The drawing also showed a camping tent, and a girl on a horse.

Funk was excited about the fact that Amador County will have a corner booth space at this year’s fair. The funding included $10,000 for building the exhibit, and $620 for fair passes and parking passes for volunteers, for the 150 volunteers needed to man the booth through the fair.

It also included $250 for four meetings, and $400 for booth set-up and maintenance.

Funk said part of the approval included the request to show supervisors a “return on investment,” and she planned to do that with a coupon booklet to be handed out at the fair. She said another way to do that would be the incorporation of an Amador Tourism “Smart Phone App.”

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