ORDINANCE NO. 220645

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Appropriating $50,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the Neighborhood Tourist Development Account; approving a contract in the amount of $86,400.00 with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball's Game Changers; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, ?92.336, RSMo, provides that ten percent of the proceeds of the City's convention and tourism tax be committed to the Neighborhood Tourism and Development Fund ("NTDF"), to be used for the purpose of promoting such neighborhood through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreations events; and

WHEREAS, Council has provided a process for the NTDF Committee to make recommendations to the City Council for the expenditure of NTDF Funds in code Chapter 2, Art. VI, Div. 9; and

WHEREAS, Council approved the NTDF Committee's Recommendations for FY 2022-2023 projects in Ordinance No. 220342, passed on April 21, 2022; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 220342 authorized the Director of the Neighborhood and Housing Service Department to execute a contract with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the amount of $36,400.00 for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball's Game Changers event series; and

WHEREAS, Council wishes to increase the funding amount for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball's Game Changers event series by $50,000, and the next event in the series, the Hot Dog Festival, is scheduled for July 30, 2022; and

WHEREAS, the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball's Game Changers event series provide a significant benefit to the City and the Historic 18th & Vine District, with the Hot Dog Festival alone previously drawing more than 10,000 people to the district for the celebration, which this year coincides with baseball legend John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil's Induction in...

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