I follow the posts, but try to keep out of the discussion. While I believe the students will come here regardless of whether money is spent on mtvU or not, that decision is up to the CVB board members. As a marketing committee member, my job is to try to make sure whatever money that is allocated by the board is being spent effectively.

There has been a lot of discussion about whether PCB is getting their money worth from mtvU being here, but there hasn't been any serious discussion about other ways the $250,000 could be spent providing activities during the entire month(rather than just the 2 week mtvU is willing to be here). It seems like this group could provide a lot of assistance in providing alternative ideas to be considered for 2010.

As far as getting the real MTV here rather than mtvU, I don't think we have enough money to make that happen. PCB was promised that MTV would be here in 2008, but MTV ended up changing their mind and going to Miami instead. I don't believe any explanation was ever provided as to why MTV wanted to be there instead.