PETITION TO SUPPORT MUSIC, ARTS 8r CULTURAL TOURISM FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL OF AUSTIN We, the undersigned registered voters of the City of Austin. petition the adoption of the following cition-initiated ordinance: The caption of the petitioned ordinance, which shall be used verbatim as the ballot language, reads as follows: A PETITIONED ORDINANCE PRIORITIZING THE USE OF HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUE FOR THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF LOCAL CULTURAL, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIRING VOTER APPROVAL AND PUBLIC OVERSIGHT FOR SIGNIFICANT EXPANSIONS OF THE AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: AND ESTABLISHING OTHER LOCAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE USE OF HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUE PART 1. Findings and Purpose: (A) The City of Austin bene?ts signi?cantly from cultural, heritage and environmental tourism, which collectively generate the bulk of the revenue the City receives from the assessment of the Hon-J Occupancy Tax; however, with too little support from the City of Austin, many of our local artists, musicians, performers and local business owners upon which Austin?s cultural fabric is based are struggling to survive with Austin's growing costs of living and doing business. (B) in contrast, the Austin Convention Center's corporate meetings, conventions and events account for less than four percent of Austin's overnight visitors, yet Convention Center-related operations, management, construction and reserves consume over seventy percent of Austin's annual Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue. (C) The purpose of this ordinance is to re-prioritize Austin?s investment of Hotel Occupancy 'be revenue to promote and support tourism that emphasizes and enhances Austin's diverse culttue, heritage, environment and locally owned businesses. PART 2. Section 11-2-7 of the Austin City Code is hereby repealed and replaced with the following provisions: 5 11-2-7 ALLOCATION AND USE OF HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUE (A) This section applies to all revenue, including interest and appreciation, derived from the Hotel Occupancy Tax and collected by the City of Austin, as authorized under state law. (B) The revenue derived from the Hotel Occupancy Tax shall be prioritized for activities and expenditures that will directly promote, support and enhance tourism that is focused on Austin?s unique and diverse culture, arts and music, historic preservation, parks, environmental resources, and locally owned businesses (collectively, the "Cultural Tourism Industry")- In furtherance of such objective. for each fiscal year, allocations of Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue shall be subject to the following constraints: (1) MW. Not less than fifteen percent of the total annual Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue collected for each ?scal year shall be prioritized and allocated to the Cultural Arts Fund (or a similar fund established by the City Council), which may be used for purposes described under Section of the Texas Ihx Code. (2) MW. Not less than ?fteen percent of the total annual Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue co may be used for proposes described under Section of the Texas Tax Code. (3) W. The total annual allocation of Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue used for Convention Center Expenditures shall be limited to the greater of an amount equal to five (5) times the Convention Center's Earned HOT Revenue or (ii) thirty-four percent of the total annual Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue collected for each ?scal year. For purposes of this ordinance, the "Convention Center's Earned HOT Revenue" shall be deemed to be the total local Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue generated solely from documented hotel room rentals by convention delegates and regimens of events held at the Convention Center during the prior fiscal year: and ?Convention Center Expenditures" shall include but are not limited to the {allowing (1) the construction, itnprovement, enlarging, equipping, repairing, operation, and maintenance of Convention Center facilities within the Central Business District; (2) the city?s provision of facilities, personnel, and materials for the registration of convention delegates at registrants; and (3) the marketing, selling, and servicing of convention services. Funds related to Convention Center Expenditures shall be allocated to the Convention Center Capital improvement Project Fund (or a similar fund established by the City Council). . The remainder of the total annual Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue collected for each ?scal year shall be allocated to support and enhance Austin's Cultural Tourism Industry through methods consistent with state law, including but not limited to, advertising and conducting solicitations and promotional programs to attract culnrral tourists to diverse, geographically dispersed parts of the City; constructing, operating and maintaining a u-ansponation system that could help connect cultural tourists from hotels in and near the City to downtown and other commercial centers with high concentrations of locally owned businesses and tourist ate-actions, as authorized under Section 351.110 of the Texas Tax Code; and constructing, maintaining and operating cultural tourist venues, such as multipurpose, performing arts, and live music venues, as authorized under Chapter 334 of the Texas Local Government Code or other applicable law. (C) Without limitation to the above, a tax authorized under Chapter 334 (Sports and Community Viennes), Subchapter (Hotel Occupancy Taxes) of the Texas Local Goverrunent Code shall be subject to the limitations of subsection above. (D) Notwithstanding anything in this section, any remaining amounts from past collections of Hotel Occupancy Revenue that have accumulated in the Convention Center Capital improvement Project Fund andior its reserves prior to May 1, 2019, may be spent retiring previously issued, voter-approved debt for the convention center as it existed on May 1, 2019. in the event that such funds are used to pay down previously issued convention center debt earlier than otherwise required, the payments of such debt may exceed the limits prescribed under Section above. PART 3. Title 11 of the Austin City Code is amended to add a new Section 11-2-8 to read as follows: 11-2-0 CONVENTION CENTER IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION 1_ (A) For purposes of this ordinance, the term ?Convention Center? shall refer to any facility built, operated or managed using Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue that is used primarily to host conventions or other corporate events or meetings, and such term expressly excludes facilities used mlmarliy for purposes related to cultural arts, education, and historic preservation. (B) Except as provided in this section, any construction, expansion, redesign, recon?guration or remodel of a Convention Center which costs in excess of twenty million dollars whether via direct expendiutre or an obligation incurred through debt ?nancing, shall require voter approval by ballot measure at the next required uniform election date. The aforementioned twenty-million dollar cap shall include all total aggregate costs of improvements made to a Convention Center over any given forty-eight (48) month period of time. Such amount shall be modi?ed each year with the adoption of the budget with an appropriate index to adjust for in?ation. (C) No Convention Center may, without voter approval, be amended, expanded, redesigned, recon?gured or remodeled in any manner District or other applicable school district. (D) Not less than ninety (90) days prior to an election required under subsections (B) or (C) above, the City shall publish and disuibute to the public an objecdve analysis of the total estimated 30-year costs of such expansion, redesign, recon?guration or remodel, which analysis shall include, among other appropriate information, the potential lost property tax revenue over such period to all relevant taxing jurisdictions resulting from the property's removal from the tax rolls, all historic expenditures of City revenues for the construction, operation, maintenance and debt service for the convention center over the prior twenty (20) year period; and the total projections for construction, operation, maintenance and debt service for the convention center facility to be improved for the full period of any contemplated bonded indebtedness that would be authorized by such election. PART 4. Title 11 of the Austin City Code is amended to add a new Section 11-2-9 to read as follows: 11-2-9 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR USE OF HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUE (A) The City shall be prohibited from connecting with an entity to manage or supervise programs and activities funded by Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue, as authorized under Section 351.101(c) of the Texas Tax Code, tutless such entity agrees to be bound to the provisions of this ordinance. For purposes of this ordinance, such contracted entity shall be referred to as a ?Convention and Visitors Bureau?. (B) Any Convention and Visitors Bureau that uses Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue shall comply with all open govertunent and public information laws that are applicable to a City of Austin department, as if they are operating as a City of Austin department. All public information requests submitted to a Convention and Visitors Bureau shall be processed and administered through the City?s Public lnfonnation Of?ce. (C) Under no circumstance shall Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue be used to lobby directly or indirectly any governmental entity or of?cial, whether state or local, nor be used to support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure. llected for each fiscal year shall be prioritized and allocated to the Historic Preservation Fund (or a similar fund established by the City Council), which (4) that would remove real property from the tax rolls of the City of Austin or another taxing jurisdiction, such as the Austin Independent School Political Advertisement paid for by Unconvendonai Austin SPAC. For more information, visit W. When completed, deliver to 1307 Oxford Ave, Austin, TX 70704. (condoned on back of page) PETITION TO SUPPORT MUSIC, ARTS 8r CULTURAL TOURISM FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL OF AUSTIN (D) Prior to each year?s allocation of Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue, any Convention and Visitors Bureau that uses Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue shall be required to prepare a report using the City's Equity Assessment Tool to ensure that budget and planning decisions are being made in ways that are reducing racial and geographic disparities, promoting service level equity, and increasing accessibility. (B) Any construction project using Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue shall comply with all then-current environmental regulations of the Austin City Code, without variance or waiver; (ii) achieve susrainable-building best practices superior to those required for certification, and incorporate elements of green infrastructure (such as green roofs and vertical gardens), on-site (building-scale) alternative water use features (such as methods that harvest rainwater. stormwater, blacltwater and air conditioning (AC) coodensatehge ed construction materials, facilities for diversion of recyclables and organics in building operations, and amenities that support active transportation (such as showers, tree shading and bike cages). 3 ?g PART 5. Effectiveness and Severability: CL (A) The effective date of this ordinance shall be the earlier of ten (ID) days after the date of its final passage by the Austin City Council, as prescribed under Article IV, Section 4(a) of the Austin City Charter or (ii) the date upon which the results of an election required un$ aide I IV, Section 4(b) are canvassed. This ordinance shall apply to all uses of the Hotel Occupancy Tax, regardless of the effective date of any City contract or action. (B) If any section, paragraph, clause, or provision of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of that section, paragraph, clause, or provision shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of this ordinance, and nd, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. This ordinance shall supersede the Austin City Code to the extent there are any conflicts. .51 Please fill in ALL blanks that are 0T optional. 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