Knox County Fair Successful Despite Weather Conditions, Budget Impasse

2015-Knox-Co-Fair cmpThe Knox County Fair had several visitors, despite weather conditions that prevented some of the grandstand shows.Knox County Fair Board President Tom Collopy says they had a lot of people on the first day and the last day of the fair.

Collopy says the fair may not get some of it’s funding because of the state budget impasse, but that the fair doesn’t rely heavily on state funds for it’s budget.

Collopy tells WGIL that the fair was “proactive” a few years ago and have a surplus saved up so future fairs won’t be impacted by state funding.

“We strive to make the fair bigger and better than ever, and we’re not relying on state funding, that’s a small portion of our budget,” says Collopy. “If we don’t get funding, we were proactive about two or three years ago, we did some adjustments with various things at the fairgrounds too in case we didn’t get the level of funding we were receiving back then or the funding was suspended that, you know, would have a drastic impact  on the fair.”

Collopy says they are always looking for ways to improve the fair, and next year will be bigger and better than ever.

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