The City Council might decide Tuesday whether to invest $500,000 from the city’s Lodging and Automotive Rental Taxes (LART) to provide a sliver of support to the downtown U.S. Olympic Museum. We say “sliver,” because more than $40 million in private donations have been raised or committed to the project.

If fundraisers don’t round up another dime, which they certainly will, the LART money would represent only 1.25 percent of the museum’s cost.

The LART funding application form says the tax revenues, levied mostly on tourists, are to “attract visitors to the City and to the Pikes Peak Region, provide economic and cultural benefit, enhance the quality of life in the City, engage the community and encourage tourist activity.”

Read more at The Colorado Springs Gazette.