HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 1976-48 MICROFILMED 4-10-80
RESOLUTION NO. 76=i48
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE BREVARD ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL'S FORMAL BUDGET REQUEST
FOR 1976-1977; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Brevard Economic Development Council (BEDC) is
charged with attracting new industry into Brevard County, and including
the City of Cape Canaveral; and
WHEREAS, the BEDC engages in a nation-wide promotion and
marketing campaign concerning Brevard County, and including the City of
Cape Canaveral; and
• WHEREAS, the unemployment rate in Brevard County has recently
reached as high as 17%, and is currently approximately 14. 5%; and
WHEREAS, the BEDC's Industrial Development (ID) activities
emphasize non-polluting manufacturing primarily employing technical,skilled
or professional persons; and
WHEREAS, the Brevard Council, Inc. /Brevard County Overall
Economic Development Committee (BCl/OEDC) has, within the Brevard Oiunty
Overall Economic Development Plan (OEDP) and all subsequent annual updates,
identified the above described industries as the primary "target" for all
Brevard County ID efforts; and
WHEREAS, the new jobs created by BEDC efforts will help alleviate
not only the high local unemployment rate, but also assist in ensuring that the
•local tax burden is more equitably shared, and prevent or remove potential
employees from the clients' rolls of local health, social service, welfare and
rehabilitative agencies; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cape Canaveral contains many unutilized or
underutilized buildings and/or sites particularly suitable for utilization by the
above described type industries; and
WHEREAS, the BEDC's advertising and.marketing promotion campaign
emphasizes such buildings and sites; and
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WHEREAS, BEDC is actively cooperating with BCI, the Florida Solar
Energy Center (FSEC) at Port Canaveral, and the Governor's Task Force on
Solar Energy/Florida Solar Energy Task Force, Inc. (Task Force) in their
1 efforts to successfully acquire or "capture" the U.S. National Solar Energy
Research Institute (SERI), and that the proposed site is within the City of
0 Cape Canaveral; and
WHEREAS, BEDC is actively cooperating with the Canaveral Port
Authority, the Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, and BCI in their
efforts both to have repealed the so called "Jones Act" limiting the stay of
foreign flag passenger vessels at the Port, and in their efforts to acquire a
railroad "spur" line at the Port; and
WHEREAS, BEDC and the Cape Canaveral Commercial Development
Board have established and do maintain a cooperative and effective working
relationship;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
--- City of Cape Canaveral, Florida, as follows:.
SECTION 1. That the City Council concurs in the recommendation of
the Cape Canaveral Commercial Development Board and supports and
endorses the BEDC's 1976-1977 Formal Budget Request for additional funds
for an increased and expanded advertising and marketing campaign.
SECTION 2. This Resolution shall become effective immediately
upon its adoption.
0 ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
this 20 day`of August , 1976.
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