Debts to the Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) have forced the Alachua County Fair Association to close down their campsite in the past as the county government wouldn’t approve the application to use the fairgrounds for camping until a repayment plan is set up and agreed for the GRU debt.

Fortunately, the GRU have agreed on a debt payment in which the fair association will pay a percentage of its gross income to the GRU from campsite rentals. Fourty-five percent of the first $15,000 in gate receipts, fifty percent of any income above $15,000 and up to $30,000 and thirty-five percent of the gate receipts above $35,000 will go to the GRU.

Eventually, the non-profit organization will be able to pay more $44,000 in utility bills owed and also debts owed to individuals and businesses who showed cattle at the fair held the previous year.

http://www.alachuacountyfair.org/