E. SPORTS COMMISSION

1. Update - George Linley

Linley

April is a big month for our Sports Commission. We are hosting 27 events, 14 different sports. We are not yet halfway through it, but we should have 26,000 plus room nights We have some very special marquee events. One of them is the Billy Jean King Cup, USA versus Austria. Sports Commission is partnering with the City of Delray Beach.

This is the fourth time we have hosted it and it was once called Federation Cup. It is the largest international event for the sport of tennis. There are 135 countries. This is the first time we are hosting it under the rebranded name.

Billy Jean King is with us in Palm Beach County now. She is one of the most iconic athletes in the history of American sports. It will be televised on the tennis channel. The matches begin Friday at 5:30 PM and Saturday in the afternoon.

Towards the end of this month, April 21st and 22nd, I believe is Spartan Race. A special thanks to Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation, Paul, I think this is the fourth year we are hosting this event. It is one of the most predominant brands in endurance sports. It is an obstacle course race with 3.2 miles. The last time we hosted this event, we had over 10,000 participants, from local and across the country.

This weekend will be the Conference USA Women's Golf Championship at PGA National. We will have the top teams in the conference including Florida Atlantic University. They are partnering with us to host the event.

Starting this weekend through next weekend Equestrian Sport Productions. We have opted to sponsor their spring series, which used to be more local riders, but now they are giving out prize money.

We have an international soccer team and training camps. We have all types of youth sports, even an ice youth, ice hockey. This is shaping and strengthening us as we are getting closer to summer with a lot of the youth travel sports that will come here.

Florida Atlantic University made it to the final four in the NCAA basketball. They were 0.6 seconds away from being in the national championship by one basket.

We are working on County recognition and trying to get the FAU team to the Board of County Commissioners' meeting. Hopefully, we will have all 14 members, but we will have most of the team there, and the head coach. If you want to come out and support FAU, come out to the BCC meeting.

We did some research and there were close to a thousand national stories in publications from USA Today and various publications that connected Florida Atlantic University and Palm Beach County in the same article. It is publicity that you could not buy by being in the final four. They earned it.

F. CULTURAL COUNCIL

1. Update – Dave Lawrence

Lawrence

At your place, you will find the calendar for Mosaic, which is our drive-time promotion. That happens in the month of May. Mosaic is an acronym for Month of Shows Arts Ideas and Culture.

A number of our cultural organizations are participating with offers. We have hotel partners. There are all sorts of deals. This is just for shoulder season travel and activation of our cultural institutions. You can even get a deal for tickets to see Legally Blonde at the Kravis Center.

The art is by a Boca Raton artist, Tiffany Beasi. We like to hire local artists to help us with the promotion and celebration of this. This goes on throughout the length of May. We are starting a new event this year on Saturday, May 20th called Palm Beach County Open Studios.

This is a pilot program for us to see. I've mentioned before that we did a cultural needs assessment last year, and one of the things we heard from professional artists that are based here in Palm Beach County is the need to connect with visitors and residents more to demystify the art process.

We started this idea to open artists’ studios and allow them to come in and look through their work and see them in their studios. We thought it would be great if we got 20 artists, we have more than 75 artists that are going to participate in this first year.

We are keeping it to one day this year, but we already have plans to expand it. You can meet the artists and learn more about their work. We feel they are important ambassadors for the cultural sector in Palm Beach County.

The Biennial exhibition is coming up at the Cultural Council. Opens on the 20th . We do this every two years. This year it is juried by Joanna Williams, who is the Associate Curator of African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. We have a national jury coming in. These are the very finest of Palm Beach County artists. There are 34 in this show, it is a way we are supporting artists.

We just closed an exhibition called Visualizing Climate Disruption. And we are expanding this and taking this exhibition on the road. It opens on the 24th You are invited to join us there.

The grant adjudications are coming up. May 16th will be our category CII grants and May 18th will be category B. Taking place at the Cultural Council in Lake Worth Beach. I want to thank Commissioner Lambert, Davicka Thompson, and Emmanuel for serving on our grant panels this year. If any of the board members have not seen the adjudication and process, please feel free to stop by over those two days to watch the deliberations, and to see the organizations and how this process happens. It is open and free from conflicts.

1. Update – Michelle Hillery

Hillery

I wanted to congratulate The Breakers and Jim Mostad for being on the Fortune 100 Best Workplace.

As far as Film and TV Production overall, we are up 14% in over a month. We've been extremely busy production-wise. We have a few new shows that are landing on Palm Beach's TV Channel. One, What's Poppin PBC hosted by Kitty London.

We also have Wild Palm Beaches We also have Travels and Traditions with Burt Wolf. What's Cooking show will be landing on The Palm Beach's TV Channel as well.

And we have On The Town in the Palm Beaches with Frank Licari. With a new show called Help and Wellness, we are doing a premiere of that show at the Arts Warehouse next Wednesday at six o'clock.

We have just wrapped up our production history for film and TV production. This is a 30-page historical document that showcases, that identifies production that has taken place here in The Palm Beaches since 1991.

We have now recorded over $308B in revenue here in Palm Beach County as a result of Film and Television production and over 330,000 production days. As I'd reported before we had $38M just in 2022, and production is going strong.

The 28th Annual Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films is coming up next Friday the 21st at the Maltz Jupiter Theater.

We hosted the largest statewide film competition, an award show right here in Palm Beach County. We are expecting 600 students and their families from around the State of Florida. Many of our winners and finalists are from right here in Palm Beach County.

H. CONVENTION CENTER

1. OVG Venue Management a. Update- Dave Anderson

Anderson

We finished March with our third art show from each contemporary amazing show with great attendance. The owner of The Boat Show owned The Art Show, there was a shuttle service going back and forth between those two shows, and the traffic was pretty heavy, it was fantastic

We are entering our perfect month of conferences coming up. We have Cabinets and Closets Conference in-house right now. And then we go to some of the Americas, which is the World Conference for Duty-Free Stores. These are the people that run duty-free stores all over the world. It is an interesting group and it's amazing to learn what kind of revenue these stores have around the world.

We have Cabinets and Closets right now. We then go into Duty-Free and then we go into Vertical Flight. Which is coming back to us. Last time we went into the helicopter in the parking lot. NASA is exhibiting. They are starting to come back out and exhibit at shows. And then we go right into the Governor's Hurricane Conference for the eighth year in a row. They were in North Florida for 30 years and they've been with us ever since.

And they signed through 2026. An amazing group Short-term business and short-term groups continue to book in between these events. Again, it is just the perfect storm that we have at the building.

Our company has an interest in talking with FAU about their arena. We've already had a call with George, and we are looking at opportunities because our company builds arenas around the world. We are in some initial conversations I think we are hopeful for even a site visit. Our corporate team is going to be coming into town and we are going to take a look at that opportunity.

Last but not least, I had a chance to run across the street to the Kravis, Diane's team hosting the street dedication for Alex Dreyfus. I just want to say they did a phenomenal job honoring him.

And now the street in between the Kravis and Dreyfus school and the arts is Dreyfus Way.

2. OVG Hospitality

a. Update – Kathy Griffin Griffin

On April 4th, we hosted our second SBE expo. What this does is it provides minority and black businesses that would like to do business with us, an opportunity to come in, present their businesses if they're food-based to give a tasting to us. It was very successful.

We had seven businesses scheduled, five showed up and all five businesses are going to go forth. Aly Fernandez joined us and she made some relationships for doing business to do business with these people at different Discover events. We have our third one scheduled for August 9th. If anybody would like to attend, let me not.

No board comments.

8. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Hutchinson

Between May 7th and 13th will be Travel and Tourism Week, and Commissioner Sachs has graciously agreed to make a proclamation that will be read on May 2nd at the BCC meeting. Anybody who can attend, please come out and support Travel and Tourism Week.

Pesquera

May 12th will be Travel Rally Day. It is happening at the Loggerhead Marine Life Center as an opportunity to celebrate Travel First. It is a national event that is put out by the US Travel Association,

At our board meeting on Tuesday, Emmanuel mentioned that the issuing of an RFP for a second headquarters hotel had overcome another hurdle.

Perry

We are in the process of drafting an RFP for a second headquarters hotel.

9. ADJOURNMENT

The meeting adjourned at 11:49 A.M.

The next Meeting will be on May 11, 2023.

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