Task force named to help pageant finances
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002 | 9:21 a.m.
ATLANTIC CITY -- A 20-member task force was announced that will "explore additional marketing and funding opportunities" for the Miss America Organization, which is threatening to leave town because of high production costs at Boardwalk Hall.
The panel, which includes community leaders and politicians, was formed as part of a Dec. 27 compromise under which Miss America CEO Robert Renneisen Jr. agreed to keep the pageant in Atlantic City for at least one more year while city officials search for ways of easing a fiscal crunch.
Miss America organizers, which had asked for $1 million in funding from the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority, said at least one of the offers it's received to host the pageant -- Orlando, Fla., Anaheim, Calif., and the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut -- is more attractive. Pageant organizers also talked with Las Vegas interests about moving the pageant to Nevada.
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