ORDINANCE NO. 980782
Authorizing
a $4,640,000.00 agreement with the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater
Kansas City, Inc. to provide services for the promotion of conventions and
tourism business in the City for Fiscal Year 1998-99; authorizing expenditure
40% of the convention and tourism tax on sleeping rooms.
BE
IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
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1. That the Director of Convention and Entertainment Centers is authorized to
execute an agreement on behalf of the City in the amount of $4,640,000.00 with
the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City, Inc. to provide
services for the promotion of conventions and tourism business in the City for
the fiscal year 1998-99, from funds appropriated in Account No. 99-236-067-2000F.
The agreement is approved in substantial form as that attached to the original
of this ordinance.
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2. That the Director of Convention and Entertainment Centers is authorized to
expend $4,640,000.00 plus any additional amount up to a total of 40% of the
proceeds of the tax imposed by section 68-551(1) in satisfaction of this
agreement, upon receipt and appropriation of that additional amount by the
Council.
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I
hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit
of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a
cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the
fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation
hereby incurred.
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Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Assistant
City Attorney