CR 91-70 Resolution Authorizing Raspberry Festival Board
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March 13, 1991 Council Rpt 91-70
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE
RASPBERRY FESTIVAL BOARD
TO CONDUCT THE RASPBERRY FESTIVAL
Proll-osed Action
staff recommends that the Council approve the following motion: Move
that the Hopkins city council adopt Resolution #91-133 authorizing the
Raspberry Festival Board of Directors to conduct the annual Raspberry
Festival.
Approval of this motion will allow the Raspberry Festival Board to
continue to use gambling money to fund certain Raspberry Festival
activities.
overview
. The Raspberry Festival Board of Directors has requested that the City
officially authorize the Board to conduct the annual Raspberry
Festival. The state Gaming commission needs such a resolution in
order to allow the Raspberry Board to fund certain activities through
charitable gambling.
The city passed a similar resolution in 1988.
Primary Issues to Consider
0 What is the effect of approving this resolution?
This resolution serves to formalize the agreement between the
City and the Raspberry Festival Board of Directors. It does
not commit the City to any additional expense or expose it to
any additional liability.
supporting Information
0 Resolution #91-133
0 1988 Memo from City Attorney
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. James A. Genellie
Assistant City Manager
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CIlY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION NO. 91-133
AUTHORIZING THE
RASPBERRY FESTIVAL BOARD
TO CONDUCT THE RASPBERRY FESTIVAL
WHEREAS, the Raspberry Festival has been a significant civic event since 1934,
and
WHEREAS, the Raspberry Festival promotes and celebrates the City of Hopkins,
and
WHEREAS, the Raspberry Festival Board of Directors has relieved the City of
. considerable expense through its sponsorship and support of the Raspberry
Festival, and
WHEREAS, without the support and assistance of the Raspberry Festival Board of
Directors the Raspberry Festival could not continue,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Hopkins hereby authorizes the Raspberry Festival Board of Directors to
annually sponsor, conduct, and assume all responsibility for the Hopkins
Raspberry Festival.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 19th day of March, 1991.
By
Nelson W. Berg, Mayor
A TrEST:
James A. Genellie, City Clerk
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MEMO
Date: December 7, 1988
To: Jim Genellie
From: Jerre Miller
Re: Raspberry Festival
I have reviewed your Action Form on the Raspberry Festival
together with the letters attached to it requesting a
Resolution from the City to encourage approval of the
Charitable Gambling Control Board to the Festival's
. reimbursement from gambling proceeds.
The executive secretary of the Control Board suggests a
Resolution from the City of Hopkins which discloses the
cooperation of the City in conducting the annual Festival and
the likelihood of its failure should the cooperation cease.
The Festival itself is an obvious promotion of the City and
has been since its inception in 1934. The City's role during
that period has been critical to its continuance and the
increased variation of its activities during this period has
assured heavy attendance and publicized the many
opportunities the community offered both commercially and
residentially.
If the City's cooperation and assistance ceased with respect
to license issuances, staff support and making available the
public properties utilized throughout the festival period, it
would likely and rapidly diminish in importance and
ultimately fail as a civic display to the general public of
the many opportunities for living, working and shopping in
the community.
Because the Raspberry Festival is an independently organized
non-profit corporation and has sufficient insurance to cover
liability concerns of the City, I can conceive of no reason
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. why a resolution drafted along the lines of my comments
reflecting the spirit of cooperation, assistance and support
provided by the City to the Festival sponsor would not be
beneficial to the Festival as well as the City in maintaining
the opportunity to call on gaming proceeds to help pay for
the Festival in its annual operation.
JAM
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