ORDINANCE NO. 230703

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Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson

Approving a contract in the amount of $17,500.00 from previously appropriated funds in the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund with Troost Market Collective as part of the FY 2023-2024 annual application cycle for the purpose of promoting neighborhoods and tourism through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreational activities.

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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 ("Code") 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 Creative City KC Inc. in the amount of $17,500.00 for the 18th and Vine Arts Festival; and

WHEREAS, Creative City KC Inc. is no longer able to serve as the fiscal agent for the 18th and Vine Arts Festival, and Troost Market Collective desires to replace Creative City KC Inc. as the fiscal agent for the 18th and Vine Arts Festival; and

WHEREAS, Section 2-931(2)(e) of the Code provides that no proposal for NTDF funding will be considered by the Council for approval, modification or disapproval without first being reviewed and reported to the Council by the committee, and

WHEREAS, the proposal for funding the 18th and Vine Arts Festival has been modified ...

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