Council to consider requests
Organizers of various Permian Basin events will make their annual pitch for funding from the city’s hotel/motel tax fund at Tuesday’s Odessa City Council meeting.
Twenty-two organizers are requesting funding from the fund. Including $16,439 in administrative fees, a total of $2,274,718 is being sought from the 2010-2011 budget, which is more than $120,000 less than was sought last year.
In 2009, the council awarded a total of $2,233,400.
The Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau’s sports event recruiting is seeking the largest amount, $865,232, the same amount it’s been awarded the last two years. The Odessa Council for the Arts & Humanities is asking for $330,791, which is less than the $419,919 it got last year.
The next biggest check is being requested by the Odessa Jackalopes hockey team, which wants $144,206, a jump from the $50,000 it got last year.
Meanwhile, Odessa Crime Stoppers and Odessa Teen Court will seek their share of money from the city’s general fund, while Keep Odessa Beautiful is asking for $134,229 from the solid waste fund.
Council members will also consider:
>> An agreement with the Permian Basin Bicycling Association for the use of 95 acres near Eastridge and Billy Hext roads for mountain biking purposes.
>> Second and final approval of a zoning change that will allow Green Eagles Development to build duplexes on 27 lots on Laredo Drive between Fitch and Barrett avenues.
>> An interlocal agreement with Odessa College for the use of $16,080 from a federal grant for OC’s Green Technologies Program.
>> Accepting a $6,000 grant for the Odessa Police Department from the Statewide Tobacco Education and Prevention Program.
>> The 2010-2011 budget for the Emergency Communication District of Ector County.
>> Second and final approval of making the city’s two remaining one-way streets into two-way streets.
>> Second and final approval abandoning a portion of alley right-of-way in the 300 block of South Texas Avenue.
>> An amendment on the definition of "dependant" on the Family Health Project 2010 plan document.
>> Amendments to city code reflecting changes in state law, correcting typographical errors and duplications and updating definitions, names and lists.
>> A proclamation for Houston & Lisa Copeland Insurance Week.
>> Appointments to boards and committees.
IF YOU GO
>> What: Odessa City Council meeting.
>> When: 6 p.m. Tuesday.
>> Where: City Hall, fifth floor council chamber, 411 W. Eighth St.
>> Call: 335-3276.
