City of Gainesville - File #: 150152.

• File #: 150152.
• Version: 1
• Type: Staff Recommendation
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/8/2015
• In control: City Manager
• On agenda: 8/20/2015
• Final action: 8/20/2015
• Title: Second Amendment to the Tourism Product Development Interlocal Agreement with Alachua County (B) This is a request for the City Commission to approve and authorize the Mayor or designee to execute a second amendment to the Tourism Product Development Interlocal Agreement with Alachua County, amending and extending the current agreement for two years, through September 30, 2017.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/20/2015	1	City Commission	Approved as Recommended

Title
Second Amendment to the Tourism Product Development Interlocal Agreement with Alachua County (B)

This is a request for the City Commission to approve and authorize the Mayor or designee to execute a second amendment to the Tourism Product Development Interlocal Agreement with Alachua County, amending and extending the current agreement for two years, through September 30, 2017.

Explanation
Since the fall of 1996, the City's Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs has administered County-funded programs for the expenditure of tourist tax funds to arts and eco-heritage non-profit agencies. Since late 2001, the City has also created new programs under terms of tourist tax funded agreements with Alachua County. The most recent Interlocal Agreement was approved on September 6, 2012 for a period of three years, from October 2012 through September 30, 2015.

Staff has been working with the Alachua County Visitors and Convention Bureau to develop terms for an amendment to the Interlocal Agreement, extending it and also addressing some programmatic needs identified by staff during the current Agreement’s term. The Second Amendment includes five revisions to the current Interlocal Agreement: the first revision extends the term of the agreement two more years beyond its current end date; the second revision relieves the City of liability for a grantee action not in accordance with its contract, as outlined in the current Interlocal Agreement; the third revision allows unallocated Tourist Development Tax monies remaining in the Tourism Product Development Grant Program (Programming and Events category) to be re-designated to the City administered New Programs (tourism marketing) category with the written consent of the Visitors & Convention Bureau (Visit Gainesville) Director; the fourth revision changes the name of the County Manager, and the fifth revision permits either party (City or County) to terminate the agreement with written notice, whereas th...