Vendor asks for second chance

The search for an advertising agency to promote Old Town Scottsdale will go on ... maybe.

The Scottsdale City Council voted 5-2 during its Dec. 2 meeting to reject a contract with the Scottsdale-based James Agency because of the cost.

The city has a $1.3 million budget generated from bed tax money to promote Old Town, but the contract brought to the council by city staff only allows for about $600,000 to go to advertising, with the rest going toward administrative costs.

The tactic of voting down the contract seems to have garnered the city some leverage in the situation though. James Agency owner Veronique James sent an email to Mayor Lisa Barowski and the city council members the next morning asking for the opportunity to present “a revised budget constr

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