Danny Miller - Winner 2017 Beach Cup
ROCKINGHAM City Council has granted $118,000 to the Rotary Club of Palm Beach for the Rockingham Beach Cup. The money is on top of the previously awarded $36,000, making a total of $154,000. The council voted eight to one to give the money to what has become the city’s signature event.
PB Rotary’s president-elect Donna McDonald, who is also the beach cup committee’s secretary, told the club’s recent board meeting that the submission asked for more. That request included the cost of a professional assessment of the cup’s value to the community — an economic and social impact statement. However the council opted to give the funds less $8000 for the impact statement, which it would organise itself.
A condition of the grant was that an upmarket event launch be held on the night before the races (Saturday) for the Premier, appropriate government ministers, travel industry, media, sponsors, the horse racing industry and other movers and shakers. This would enable the council and race organisers to thank those involved and showcase the city and the Rockingham Beach Cup.
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