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File #: 15-20018    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Business Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/21/2023 In control: City Council Business Meeting
On agenda: 4/10/2023 Final action:
Title: Sullenberger Aviation Museum Support
Attachments: 1. Sullenberger Budget Ordinance

Title

Sullenberger Aviation Museum Support

 

Action

Action                     

A.                     Authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to negotiate and execute agreements with the Sullenberger Aviation Museum, formally known as the Carolinas Aviation Museum, to support the re-opening of the museum in amounts not to exceed $2,000,000 in total from the city’s Tourism Fund.

 

B.                     Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $2,000,000 from the Tourism Fund for support for the Sullenberger Aviation Museum.

 

Body

Staff Resource(s):

Tracy Dodson, City Manager’s Office

Teresa Smith, Finance

 

Background

§                     The Carolinas Aviation Museum (CAM) has operated at Charlotte Douglas International Airport for more than 30 years.

§                     The museum’s Lift Off Capital Campaign is working to raise $31.0 million to support the redesign of a new state-of-the-art facility to house the new Sullenberger Aviation Museum (SAM), formerly the CAM.

§                     The SAM is named after Captain C. B. “Sully” Sullenberger who landed US Airways Flight 1549, en route to Charlotte, safely in New York’s Hudson River.

§                     Public commitments to the SAM include:

-                     $10.0 million from the State of North Carolina

-                     $5.0 million from the Airport Cannon Fund

-                     $3.0 million from Mecklenburg County

§                     Upon completion, the SAM plans to serve more than 100,000 visitors annually and connect more than 15,000 students to STEM programming and career development labs.

§                     Workforce development efforts include:

-                     Aligning with HIRE Charlotte to provide pathways to employment in transportation through aviation and aerospace opportunities

-                     Accelerating aviation and STEM workforce pipeline by providing direct programming and serving as a convener for aviation workforce partners

-                     Supporting local high schools through work-based learning and career readiness programs using hands-on job experience

-                     Convening area aviation partners to align efforts and grow aviation workforce pipeline

§                     The SAM is expected to open in late 2023.

 

City Council Discussion

§                     At the April 3, 2023 Jobs and Economic Develop (J&ED) Council Committee meeting the committee received a presentation and discussed this funding request.

§                     The committee voted unanimously to support moving the request forward for consideration by Council action.

§                     City Council was briefed on the request from the J&ED chair at the April 3, 2023 Council Committee Discussions meeting.

 

Fiscal Note

Funding:  Tourism Fund

 

Attachments

Attachment(s)

Budget Ordinance