Seventeen local groups given Transient Occupancy Tax funding

Seventeen Fallbrook-area organizations were allocated 2017-2018 Community Enhancement funds from San Diego County’s Transient Occupancy Tax revenue.

The Community Enhancement appropriations are part of the county’s 2017-2018 budget, which was approved on a 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote June 27. Each county supervisor has discretionary control of a Community Enhancement budget of $1,079,000, not including returned funds from 2016-2017 awards. Supervisor Bill Horn had $1,079,307 to distribute to District 5 or multiple-district groups.

Although the revenue is only from Transient...