ORDINANCE NO. 230622

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Sponsor: Councilmember Lee Barnes, Jr.

Appropriating $40,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the Neighborhood Tourist Development Account and approving a contract in the amount of $90,000.00 with the Negro League Baseball Museum for the Play Ball 2023: The Soul of Baseball Celebration.

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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 Development Fund ("NTDF"), to be used for the purpose of promoting such neighborhood through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreation 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 the Code of Ordinances of Kansas City, Missouri in Chapter 2, Art. VI, Div. 9; and

WHEREAS, Council approved the NTDF Committee's Recommendations for FY 2023-2024 projects in Ordinance No. 230306, passed on April 13, 2023; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 230306 authorized the Director of the Neighborhood Services Department to execute a contract with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the amount of $50,000.00 for the Play Ball 2023: The Soul of Baseball Celebration event series; and

WHEREAS, Council wishes to increase the funding amount for the Play Ball 2023: The Soul of Baseball Celebration event series by $40,000.00, and the next event in the series, the Heart of America Hot Dog Festival, is scheduled for August 5, 2023; and NOW, THEREFORE

WHEREAS, the Play Ball 2023: The Soul of Baseball Celebration event series provides a significant benefit to the City and the Historic 18th and Vine District, with the Heart of America Hot Dog Festival alone previously drawing more than 10,000 people to the district for the celebration; and NOW, THEREFORE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF...

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