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Approval of a Professional Services Agreement with Epicenter Productions in the Amount of $114,100 for Professional Services Related to the Pop Festival Commemoration Event Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend 2019; Authorization for the City Manager to Execute the Agreement; and Approval of a Supplemental Appropriation in the Amount of $50,000 from Hotel-Motel Fund Reserves.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMMENTS:
Entertainment has been signed and production is well underway for the Texas Pop Turns 50 event set for Labor Day Weekend. The event is a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Texas International Pop Festival held in Lewisville in 1969. The 2019 edition of the event features ZZ Top and Chicago. Staff requests approval to enter a professional services agreement to produce the sound, lights, staging, and generator power needed to produce an event of this scale. Staff also is requesting a supplemental appropriation of $50,000 from the Hotel-Motel Fund Reserves to cover unanticipated event costs.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council approve the agreement and supplemental appropriate as set forth in the caption above, and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.
AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS:
James Kunke, Community Relations & Tourism Director