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Council creates the Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc., 5-0
The City Council voted 5-0 for Resolution No. 09-08-20-1, creating the Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc. and approving its Articles of Incorporation. The minutes say the articles establish the CVB as an independent non-profit entity with a budget approved annually by the City Council and a council-appointed board of nine voting and two ex-officio members, a smaller board than the Convention and Visitor Council it replaced.[1]
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On September 8, 2020 the council voted 5-0 (Mayor Ginger Nelson and Councilmembers Elaine Hays, Freda Powell, Eddy Sauer and Howard Smith) for Resolution No. 09-08-20-1, "creating the Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc.," on Powell's motion seconded by Smith. The item was presented by Assistant City Manager Floyd Hartman and Kashion Smith. [1]
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The minutes state the articles "would establish the CVB as an independent non-profit entity with a budget to be approved annually by the Amarillo City Council" and a council-appointed board of "nine (9) voting members and two (2) ex-officio members," with staggered initial terms ending in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and three-year terms after that. Mayor Nelson said the CVB "would be a reduction in the number of board members" compared with the Convention and Visitor Council. [1]
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At the CVB's first meetings Smith said the building was "no longer referred to as the Chamber, but now as the Bivins Mansion," and board president Angela Knapp Eggers said that "since the CVB is now separate from the Chamber," two Chamber representatives would leave the director search committee. A July 2024 board work session reviewed "the history of the ACVB beginning in 1977 as a department of the Chamber of Commerce." [2][3]
