HomeMy WebLinkAboutcover memoCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO :
FROM
The Honorable
Mers of the
Or
ity Commissio
Joe •P iola, Chief Administrator
City ager
DATE :
SUBJECT:
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
July 14, 2004
FILE :
Resolution Appropriating a
Grant from Miami Dade
Cultural Affairs Dept.
Contract for Funding The
Real Miami Tours
RECOMMENDATION:
It is respectfully recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached resolution
that will establish a Special Revenue Fund entitled "The Real Miami Tours" and
accepting the corresponding grant for $5,000 from the Miami -Dade County Cultural
Affairs Department Empowerment Trust, Inc. and further authorizing the City Manager
to appropriate the grant and execute the necessary documents, in a form acceptable to the
City Attorney for said purpose. The grant will be used to fund miscellaneous marketing
costs associated with the design, printing and distribution of tourist brochures and the
dissemination of information about cultural heritage attractions in several inner-city
communities.
BACKGROUND:
The Department of Economic Development would like to establish a Special Revenue
Fund in an amount of $5,000 for The Real Miami Tours Project and appropriate the
same from a grant from the Miami -Dade Cultural Affairs Department Tourist
Development Council.
The Real Miami Tours project aims to both publicize cultural heritage attractions in the
inner-city communities, and promote the efforts of tour companies currently operating
tours in these inner-city revitalizing communities. In this way, the project hopes to
stimulate tourism in these inner-city communities and enable local arts/culture merchants
to share in the tourism dollars created in the wider Miami community.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Department of Economic Development has identified $20,000
from its existing budget as a match for this grant.
Enclosure: Miami -Dade County Cultural Affairs Department Agreement
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