By Benjamin Cox on April 29, 2021 at 8:49am The Village of South Jacksonville is planning to possibly re-up a tourism grant with one of Jacksonville’s biggest attractions. Jacksonville Speedway operator Ken Dobson came to the Village Trustees proposing to re-up a tourism grant totaling $15,000 to help offset costs for advertisement and publicity for the racetrack. The Speedway previously received the amount in 2019. Dobson said last year held a lot of uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic, and he didn’t feel comfortable asking sponsors for money: “Honestly, in 2020 with COVID and everything, I didn’t reach out here. I knew that tourism was certainly struggling, and I didn’t reach out to a lot of our sponsors and advertisers. We just kind of limped through 2020 at the Speedway. We didn’t even get started until after July. We limited our capacity and followed the rules, limited ourselves to 500 people, and held 5 events that we could sort of make work under the circumstances. They worked out really well, as far as people being able to get out and participate safely in things outdoors. Last year, we kind of took a year off.”