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i U L 17 1590 BOOK The Board reviewed the following memo dated 7/10/90: `9 TO: The Board of County Commi•.ssloners FROM:,,ot William G. Collins II - Assistant County Attorney DATE: July 10, 1990 SUBJECT: Tourist Development Council Proposal to Revise Section 22-253 of the Code of Laws and Ordinances of Indian River County At the June 6, 1990 meeting of the Tourist Development Council, the Council proposed an ordinance revision which would expand the authorized uses of tourist tax revenue to be consistent with those authorized uses under state law. Currently the County ordinance is more restrictive than state law. The following is an abbreviated summary of the authorized uses of the revenue under existing County ordinance. 1. Convention center or sports stadium. 2. To promote and advertise tourism. 3. To fund tourist bureaus. 4. To finance beach improvements. The proposed ordinance revision would add to Item 4 above the enhancement of inland lakes and rivers to which there is public access. It would also add a fifth category allowing counties of less than 500,000 population to use tourist tax revenues for museums, zoos, fishing piers 'or nature centers which are publicly owned and operated or owned and operated by not-for-profit organizations and opened to the public. On June 19, 1990 the Board authorized advertising for public hearing. RECOMMENDATION Recommend approval of the attached ordinance. Commissioner Scurlock was concerned about the impact of tourism on the rest of the community that has to live here year around, travel our streets, and try to function during peak tourist season. His suggestion would be that a certain portion of those monies be reserved to mitigate the impact of tourism, i.e. to make the roads wider, the community nicer and better able to handle the tourists when they are are. If expanding this helps accomplish that, he would support it, but if it just 10 M