The Riverside City Council was scheduled to consider $54,500 in hotel-motel tax revenue to five organizations at its meeting Tuesday night.

The council’s regular Monday meeting was moved until Tuesday due to the Presidents’ Day holiday.

The Riverside Area Community Club applied for a $19,000 for Trekfest and an additional $4,000 for summer events. The Riverside History Center asked for $19,000. The Washington County YMCA requested $10,000 and Paws & More sought $2,500.

The amount requested by organizations is a small part of the $183,880 collected from visitors who stay overnight at the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort.

An additional $91,940 is slated to go to city parks.

According to its grant application, Trekfest last year attracted approximately 7,000 visitors the last weekend in June.

The grant will help pay for parade awards, advertising, the costume contest, security, the Bill Reilly Talent Search and rentals such as tables, tents, inflatables and portable toilets.

RACC requested an additional $4,000 for summer movies and bands in the park.  Plans call for an event each month during the summer. Last year, similar events drew about 200 people, half of them children.

The Riverside History Center asked for $19,000 to support the city museum and the Voyage Home Museum, which chronicles the history of the Star Trek television and movie enterprise, a major draw of visitors to the city who come to see the future birthplace of the fictional Capt. James T. Kirk.

“We attract visitors from all over the world,” the History Center’s grant application reads.

Last year, the museum attracted 5,000 visitors “from all seven continents and 49 countries.” The Highland High School wood shop class built a captain’s chair for the museum.

Camp Highland, operated by the Washington County YMCA, requested $10,000. The camp has been offered in Riverside every summer since 2016 at Highland Elementary School in Riverside.

Last year, 35 students attended, 30 of them were Highland Community School District students. The program collaborates with the school district, the YMCA-operated pool in Kalona and the Kalona Public Library.

Camp Highland “creates a place where the children can have supervised fun activities within their community and also gives them field trip opportunities to create lasting memories,” according to the grant application.

The grant reduces costs for Highlands students who pay $142 per week to attend the camp. Children from other communities pay $157 per week.

Paws & More requested a grant for $2,500 to support the pet adoption services offered by the organization.