Costs of this year's EnLIVEn music festival and the Canowindra Balloon Challenge have been made public.
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"We are trying to be a whole lot more transparent," Challenge vice president Adam Barrow said.
A budget of $325,000 has been set for EnLIVEn and $130,000 for the balloon festival with enough tickets already sold to make EnLIVEn profitable.
EnLIVEn will be a cashless event with the issuing of RFID tags to all ticket holders enabling organisers to track spending.
"This to us seems like a scary concept but lots of people are using it, you use it at the F1, lots of different music events in the city, even casinos use tap and go wristbands, it's not new, just to us," Challenge treasurer Kim McKenzie said.
"We're just bring city technology to Canowindra," Ms McKenzie said.
The tags will only be used for EnLIVEn but ticket holders will be encouraged to use them at Canowindra businesses.
Headlining EnLIVEn are Jon Stevens and Eskimo Jo with support acts James Johnston plus Orange artists Robbie Mortimer and Clancy Pye.
Those attending this week's meeting heard the $130,000 cost of the balloon challenge consisted of $30,406 for administration, $55,100 for operations, $28,500 for production, $15,030 for balloonists and an estimated $5,000 in GST.
The cost of EnLIVEn is $325,000 broken down to administration costs of $16,688, operation costs of $58,750, production costs of $209,780, security costs of $13,100, $7,200 in marketing and GST of $20,000.