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• • % t • + a <br /> ORDINANCE NO. g ' .'1 $-c(o. <br /> AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF <br /> SOUTH BEND, INDIANA TO AMEND THE <br /> "AMENDED AGREEMENT OF OPERATIONS <br /> BETWEEN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY HOTEL- <br /> MOTEL TAX BOARD OF MANAGERS AND <br /> SOUTH BEND CIVIC CENTER BOARD OF <br /> MANAGERS AND CITY OF SOUTH BEND" <br /> STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT: , <br /> The City of South Bend, Indiana (the "City") is party to an <br /> "Amended Agreement of Operations between St. Joseph County Hotel- <br /> Motel Tax Board of Managers and South Bend Civic Center Board of <br /> Managers and City of South Bend" , dated February 14 , 1983 (the <br /> "Agreement") . A copy of the Agreement is attached as Exhibit A. <br /> This Common Council and the Mayor of the City deem it <br /> advisable and in the best interests of the City and its citizens to <br /> improve South Bend Century Center and Studebaker National Museum, <br /> both in the City, or to assist in providing an :alternate site for <br /> Studebaker National Museum, which facilities are used for meetings, <br /> conventions, entertainment spectaculars, displays of industrial or <br /> cultural value, and/or other cultural, governmental, educational, <br /> recreational, exhibition, or civic purposes. <br /> IC 6-9-1 mandates the levy of a countywide tax in St. Joseph <br /> County, Indiana on every person engaged in the business of renting <br /> or furnishing, for periods of less than thirty days, any room or <br /> rooms, lodgings or accommodations in any commercial hotel, motel, <br /> inn, tourist camp, or tourist cabin (the "Hotel-Motel Tax") . The <br /> Hotel-Motel Tax is collected by the St. Joseph County Treasurer, <br /> and deposited in the County' s convention and exhibition center fund <br /> (the "Fund") . <br /> The special funds board of managers created by IC §6-9-1-2 <br /> (the "Hotel-Motel Tax Board of Managers") has the authority to <br /> expend funds generated from said Hotel-Motel Tax levy for purposes <br /> which include financing, constructing, improving and promoting any <br /> capital improvement in the nature of a convention and exhibition <br /> center, and renovating, equipping, operating and maintaining any <br />