Senate Bill sb0892

    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                       SR 892

    By Senator Joyner





    18-748-07

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing the 20th Anniversary

  3         of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in

  4         Tampa, Florida.

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  6         WHEREAS, in 1987 the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center

  7  (TBPAC) opened its doors to provide touring Broadway

  8  performances, grand opera, comedy, concerts, cabaret, drama,

  9  and dance to patrons throughout the extended Tampa Bay area,

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11         WHEREAS, over the last 20 years TBPAC has entertained

12  almost 10 million residents and visitors and has become the

13  largest performing arts center in the southeastern U.S. and

14  the largest south of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.,

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16         WHEREAS, TBPAC expanded its educational efforts in 2004

17  when it opened the Dr. Pallavi Patel Performing Arts

18  Conservatory, teaching music, theater, dance, and digital arts

19  to all ages and interest groups, and

20         WHEREAS, more than 860,000 children have attended

21  performances at TBPAC, many of them visiting a theater for the

22  first time, through the On-School-Time program, and

23         WHEREAS, approximately 80 percent of TBPAC's budget

24  comes from ticket sales, rentals, and other income, with the

25  remaining funds coming from governments, corporations,

26  foundations, and 5,700 individual donors, and

27         WHEREAS, TBPAC has a $94-million annual economic impact

28  on the State of Florida, according to the formula used by the

29  U.S. Council of Mayors and the Americans for the Arts, with

30  its bottom line boosted by some 650 volunteers donating more

31  than 75,000 hours of support annually, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida Senate - 2007        (NP)                       SR 892
    18-748-07




 1  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 3         That the Florida Senate proudly recognizes and

 4  celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Tampa Bay Performing

 5  Arts Center and urges the residents of the State of Florida to

 6  support the performing arts throughout the state and

 7  particularly at the TBPAC and at the Patel Performing Arts

 8  Conservatory in Tampa, Florida.

 9         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

10  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the Tampa

11  Bay Performing Arts Center as a tangible token of the

12  sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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