Subject: 9548/Choo Choo Aniversary Special
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 14:54:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9548
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION
                   OF SUM OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($35,000)
                   DOLLARS TO THE CHATTANOOGA CONVENTION AND
                   VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION, A 501(C)(4)
                   ORGANIZATION FOR FUNDING THE "CHOO CHOO
                   ANIVERSARY SPECIAL" TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO
                   WASHINGTON, D.C TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA TO
                   CHATTANOOGA IN ORDER TO PROMOTE CHATTANOOGA
                   AS A POTENTIAL SITE TO LOCATE BUSINESSES AND
                   TO PROMOTE THE LOCAL TOURIST INDUSTRY.
                  
                  
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              	   WHEREAS,  The Chattanooga Convention and Visitors
         Bureau Foundation is a non-profit civic organization organized
         for the purpose of promoting the City of Chattanooga as a
         potential site to locate businesses and to promote the City of
         Chattanooga as a local tourist attraction; and
              	   WHEREAS,  the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors
         Bureau Foundation is a non-profit civic organization qualified
         under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 
as
         amended; and
              	   WHEREAS,  it is in the interest of the common good and 

         general welfare of the citizens of the City of Chattanooga that 

         funds be made available to allow the Chattanooga Convention and 

         Visitors Bureau Foundation to carry out the purposes for which
         it was organized and to bring about civic betterments and 
social
         improvements; and
              	   WHEREAS,  it is advisable that those persons or
         entities who wish to make grants or contributions to or for the 

         benefit of the City of Chattanooga, have a mechanism under 
which
         such gifts can be made of carrying out the purposes for which
         Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation was
         organized.
                                 NOW, THEREFORE,
              	   BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
         CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, that:
              	   SECTION 1.	  The sum of $35,000 be appropriated to
         the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation for
         the funding of the "Choo Choo Aniversary Special" train trip
         beginning in New York, New York, to Washington, D.C. to 
Atlanta,
         Georgia and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the purpose of
         locating officials from companies who wish to locate businesses 

         within Chattanooga, Tennessee and to promote the local tourist
         industry in this area.  Such sums shall be payable from the
         contingency fund of the City of Chattanooga.
         	   SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Budget
         Ordinance of the City of Chattanooga for the fiscal year
         1990-1991, Ordinance No. 9423 shall also be amended to include
         the sum of $35,000 which shall be payable from the contingency
         fund as an expenditure to the Chattanooga Convention and
         Visitors Bureau Foundation for funding of the "Choo Choo
         Aniversary Special" train trip. 
         	   SECTION 3.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this Ordinance
         shall restrict any appropriation of funds to be used for the
         purpose of maintaining and increasing employment opportunities
         in the City of Chattanooga by promoting industry, trade,
         commerce, tourism and recreation and by inducing manufacturing, 

         industrial, governmental, educational, financial, service,
         commercial, recreational and agricultural enterprises to locate 

         in or remain in the City of Chattanooga or to locate nearby in
         order to provide jobs for residents of the City in accordance
         with the guidelines set forth within Chattanooga City Code,
         Section 2-326.
         	   SECTION 4.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that as a
         prerequisite of obtaining any funds from the City of
         Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau
         Foundation shall file with the Mayor and City Clerk a copy of
         its annual report of its business affairs and transactions
         including its annual audit, its program of benefit to the
         residents of the City of Chattanooga and its proposed use of
         municipal assistance which can be reviewed by the public prior
         to the expenditure of any funds.
         	   SECTION 5.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that prior to
         making  this appropriation to the Chattanooga Convention and
         Visitors Bureau Foundation notices were published in a 
newspaper
         of general circulation in the municipality of the intent to 
make
         this appropriation to a non-profit charitable organization
         specifying the amount of the appropriation the purposes, for
         which the appropriation was to be spent and the City Council
         has approved the appropriation at two (2) regularly scheduled
         meetings in accordance with Chattanooga City Code Section 
2-326.
         	   SECTION 6.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this Ordinance
         shall take effect two (2) weeks from and after its passage as
         required by law.
        
         PASSED on Third and Final
         Reading May 7, 1991.	       _/s/_______________________________
              	   	     	       	      CHAIRPERSON
        
              	   	     	       APPROVED: ______ DISAPPROVED:_____
        
              	   	     	       DATE:___________ ___, 1991.
        
              	   	     	       _/s/_______________________________
              	   	     	       	        MAYOR
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