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Target Field Twins Balcony License Agreement with Twins Ballpark, LLC, including indemnification provisions.
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Recommended Action:
Recommended Action
Approval and execution by the Department Director of the License Agreement with Twins Ballpark, LLC (Ballpark) for a Meetings and Conferences business development event, including indemnification provisions.
• At this event, the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) had an opportunity to develop business with meeting planners from the corporate, association and incentive segments of the meetings industry.
• The CVB anticipates bringing an estimated 2,725 room nights to the County as a result of this sales mission.
• Ballpark would not agree to remove indemnification provisions.
• County Attorney has reviewed to ensure contract meets the indemnification waiver criteria set forth in paragraph three of Resolution No. 06-70.
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Strategic Plan:
Foster Continual Economic Growth and Vitality
4.6 Support a vibrant community with recreation, arts and culture to attract residents and visitors
Summary:
The License Agreement with the Ballpark allowed the CVB to host a business development event on June 19, 2024, with meeting planners from the corporate, association and incentive segments of the meetings industry. This event was part of the CVB’s overall sales mission to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Background/Explanation:
This event meets the indemnification waiver criteria set forth in paragraph three of Resolution 06-70.
This will be the 13th year the CVB hosted this event at Target Field, and it has become one of the CVB’s signature events for meeting planners in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In addition to the event at Target Field, this sales mission included hosting planners at a luncheon where the CVB presented information on the destination, as well as eight individual sales calls.
The CVB anticipates receiving an estimated 2,725 room nights and $1,995,000 in direct economic impact to the County as a result of this sales mission. To date, the 2023 sales mission has produced 2,237 room nights and $1,447,000 in direct economic impact.
Three Pinellas County hoteliers attended alongside the CVB and shared in the cost of the sales mission.
Fiscal Impact:
Estimated Cost: $8,250.00
Funding to support this License Agreement in the amount of $8,250.00 is provided through the CVB’s Annual Operating Budget. The source of funding is the Tourist Development Tax Fund.
Delegated Authority:
Authority for the Department Director to sign this License Agreement was granted by the County Administrator under Resolution No. 06-70.
Staff Member Responsible:
Brian Lowack, Director, Convention and Visitors Bureau
Partners:
Tourist Development Tax Fund
Attachments:
License Agreement
Supporting Documentation
Resolution No. 06-70