Tourist Development Council Meeting

Tourist Development Council

The Council shall have the following powers and duties:

a.    Conduct public hearings to receive information from the public with respect to the effectiveness of the existing tourist development efforts by both public and private agencies, organizations, and businesses and the need for additional or different tourist development efforts.

b.    Recommend a method of coordination of existing tourist development efforts by both public and private agencies, organizations, and businesses and of new or additional tourist development efforts to obtain maximum economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the tourist development efforts in and for Martin County.

c.    Identify and recommend methods of eliminating unnecessary duplications in existing tourist development efforts by both public and private agencies, organizations, and businesses and preventing or minimizing such duplications of new or proposed tourist development efforts.

d.    Identify and develop new tourist development efforts by both public and private agencies, organizations, and businesses.

e.    Create, prepare, and submit to the Board a Tourist Development Plan in the manner meeting the requirements of F.S. 125.0104, and, from time to time thereafter, make recommendations to the Board for changes to the Tourist Development Plan.

f.    From time to time, to make recommendations to the Board for the effective operation of the special projects or uses provided for in the Tourist Development Plan.

g.    Review the expenditures of revenues authorized in the Tourist Development Plan and report to the Board and to the State Department of Revenue as required by F.S. 125.0104.

h.    Adopt, amend, and repeal rules and to implement the provisions of any ordinance for which it is responsible.

i.    Submit an annual report to the Board of its activities and of the issues and progress of the tourist development efforts in and for the County.