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: Ff> At§OLUTION NO. 7'7iM 7 4 0
gOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION
OF $10,000 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY
AND TOURISM BUDGET TO COVER THE COST
OF DOWNTOWN STREET DECORATIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
�jIA�`•�1I FLORIDA:
Section 1. The sum of $10,000 is hereby allocated
from the Department of Publicity and Tourism budget to Cover
the cost of Downtown Street Decorations.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 23 day of SEPTEMBER
MAURICE A. FERRE
MAYO R
ATTEST:
PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
JR., CITY( T'IpRNEY
CITY COMMISSION
MEETING OF
SEP2 3 1977
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City Manager
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Charles Crumpton
Assistant City Manager,
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Holiday Dedof`atit h§
The Downtown Businessmen's Association, wishing to assist the
City of Miami at putting its best foot forward during the Christmas
holiday season, has asked the City to join with the association
in decorating Flagler Street during the Christmas holiday (Orange
Bowl Festival) season.
A committee of businessmen, headed by Chairman Ken Clifford and
Emilio Calleja, met with us recently to ask the City to contribute
$10,000 to co-sponsor the project.
Mr. Clifford has stated the total cost of purchasing the decorations,
which are expected to last for several years, will total approxi-
mately S40,O0O. The major portion of funds will come from the
merchants in the downtown area and from the Orange Bowl Committee.
Plans call for decorating Flagler Street from Biscayne Boulevard
to the Courthouse, NE First Street and SE First Street in the
same manner.
The City of Miami has assisted generously the merchants with this
type of project in the past. IIowever, because of the Flagler Street
innovations, particularly with the newly installed modern street
identification signs, it has become necessary to create decorations
that would be more tailored to the street improvements.
Since our Tourism Director, Lew Price, believes this holiday project
would lend itself to additional promotional purposes, I recommend
that the request be granted.
Funding will come from the current Department of Publicity and Tourism
budget.