City of Philadelphia - File #: 010420

• File #: 010420
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 5/31/2001
• In control: Committee of the Whole
• Final action: 6/14/2001
• Title: Authorizing the City of Philadelphia, acting through its Department of Commerce, to amend that certain agreement by and between the City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Convention and Tourist Bureau (currently known as the "Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau"), authorized pursuant to an Ordinance approved by the Mayor on June 25, 1965, designating the Bureau as the agency authorized to receive grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Commerce for tourism under the Act of April 28, 1961, P.L. 111, known as the Tourist Promotion Law.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember DiCicco

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
8/31/2001	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/14/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
6/14/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	17:0
6/7/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
6/7/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL	Pass
6/7/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
6/6/2001	0	Committee of the Whole	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/6/2001	0	Committee of the Whole	HEARING HELD
6/6/2001	0	Committee of the Whole	REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
5/31/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
5/31/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing the City of Philadelphia, acting through its Department of Commerce, to amend that certain agreement by and between the City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Convention and Tourist Bureau (currently known as the "Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau"), authorized pursuant to an Ordinance approved by the Mayor on June 25, 1965, designating the Bureau as the agency authorized to receive grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Commerce for tourism under the Act of April 28, 1961, P.L. 111, known as the Tourist Promotion Law.
Body

WHEREAS, pursuant to an Ordinance approved by the Mayor on June 25, 1965, the Director of Commerce was authorized to enter into an agreement (the "Agreement"), on behalf of the City of Philadelphia (the "City"), with the Philadelphia Convention and Tourist Bureau (currently known as the "Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau") designating the Bureau as the agency authorized to receive grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Commerce for tourism under the Act of April 28, 1961, P.L. 111, known as the Tourist Promotion Law;

WHEREAS, the City desires to re-confirm that the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau (the "Bureau") is designated by the City as the agency authorized to receive grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Commerce for tourism under the Tourist Promotion Law;

WHEREAS, the Agreement approved by Council requires, among other things, that the Bureau continue to operate and maintain the Visitor's Hospitality Center at Fifteenth Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Philadelphia;

WHEREAS, a new Independence Visitors Center is being constructed at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia, and the Bureau plans to partially fund the Independence Visitors Center using Bureau funds;

WHEREAS, the City no longer desires that the Bureau continue to operate and maintain the Visitor's Hospitality...