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Millenium Centre has best quarter ever

By Special Contribution
Published: November 15, 2007
Updated: November 15, 2007

As a follow-up to its best fiscal year ever, the Millennium Centre kicked off FY08 with its best-ever quarter. With an operating deficit of $100,174, the Centre came in more than $57,000 below the budgeted deficit of $157,330 for the period of July to September.

“This is really attributable to the professional staff here,” said Todd Smith, business management analyst for the City of Johnson City. “The sales staff is doing a great job of garnering business that really reduces our deficit. And the operational staff has worked hard to reduce unnecessary costs.”

Smith said major events held by East Tennessee State University, King College, R.H. Donnelly and Blue Cross/Blue Shield have played significant roles in bringing in revenue.

“The new signs on our building have helped, I believe,” Smith added. “They have increased our visibility and given us more name recognition.”

Millennium Centre also is on track to best its second-quarter budgeted deficit of $127,769.

The Millennium Centre opened eight years ago, and is owned by the Johnson City Public Building Authority and operated by Sodexho Conferencing.