File #: 071520    Version: 1 Name: Creates a Mayor's Office of Special Events to attract, create and promote special events
Type: Ordinance Status: Killed
Introduced: 11/6/2007 In control: Budget and Finance Committee
On agenda: Final action: 1/16/2008
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Ordinance creating a Mayor's Office of Special Events with responsibility for organizing major special events, like Halloween, that have no private sponsor, facilitating privately-sponsored special events by coordinating permitting and other City support for such events, maintaining a master calendar of special events, creating a web site for special events, providing guidelines to other City departments on appropriate special event policies, working with the Entertainment Commission, Grants for the Arts, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Mayor’s Office of Protocol to support existing special events and attract new special events, and issue a report to the Board of Supervisors on the effectiveness of this Ordinance within a year of its effective date, and removing from the Entertainment Commission responsibility for organizing major special events like Halloween, helping event organizers obtain permits from other City departments, and mediating disputes between organizers of special event and people affected by those events.
Sponsors: Bevan Dufty, Michela Alioto-Pier
Attachments: 1. Legislation_Ver1
Legislation Details
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