By Chris OrletRecord Managing EditorFireworks will be returning to Warrenton this Fourth of July.The Warrenton Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $10,000 for a fireworks display.The city did not hold a fireworks display in 2013, due to conflicts between the city and the Warren County Fair Board, former co-sponsors of the event. The two entities had been splitting the cost of the display, which had been held at the fairgrounds.Tourism board spokesman Mike Shilharvey said the relationship had been tense as the fair board faced financial difficulties.“It was no longer a 50-50 thing,” he said. Previously the fair board spent $5,000 and the tourism board spent $5,000.This year all of the cost will come from the tourism board’s budget. Funding for the tourism budget comes from a hotel and bed and breakfast tax. Alderman Gary Auch stressed that the money for the city’s tourism programs was not money taken from sewer or water improvements, but is completely funded by the hotel tax. “Hopefully the tourism dollars benefit the hotels and bed and breakfasts too,” he said. The tourism tax has raised roughly $1 million since it was passed in the mid-90s, officials said.Shilharvey said that the fireworks display brings in people from outside of the Warrenton area. “The fireworks could help out the fair board too,” he said.The city and fair board still have to work out liability insurance issues.According to Shilharvey, the tourism board is looking for ways to enhance the programs it funds, such as concerts in the park. Shilharvey said it might be possible to attract some relatively big-name acts to perform on the fairground stage. Such concerts, he said, could be free, or low-cost.“There were plans to build a tourism center, but I think before we do that we need something to attract people.”Alderman John Clark asked Fair Board spokesman Dave Mikus if the fireworks display could be a free event.Mikus said it was not practical due to the large number of season ticket holders as well as the people who would be attending the demolition derby. “How would you make them leave after the fireworks?” he said.Fireworks returning to Warrenton on July 4