AGENDA BLOUNT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ...

RESOLUTION NO.12-06-13
Sponsored by: Commissioners Holden Lail and Mike Lewis
RESOLUTION TO TRANSFER REAL PROPERTY FROM BLOUNT COUNTY,
TENNESSEE, TO SMOKY MOUNTAIN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
WHEREAS, the Smoky Mountain Visitor’s Bureau has operated as an instrumentality of Blount
County for the purpose of promoting the tourism industry in Blount County; and,
WHEREAS, in the past Blount County has bought and obtained three (3) tracts of real property for
the use and benefit of the Smoky Mountain Visitor’s Bureau; and,
WHEREAS, Blount County has previously approved and obtained a loan through capital outlay notes
for the purposes of land which land has been used by the Smoky Mountain Visitor’s Bureau to
operate the Visitor’s Center in Townsend, Tennessee; and,
WHEREAS, the Blount County Legislative Body has recently by Resolution No: 12-05-008 passed a
Resolution to approve a private act relating to hotel-motel taxes and a tourism board and approved the
creation of a Tourism Development Authority to replace the Smoky Mountain Visitor’s Bureau; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to the acts of the Commission there has now been created an entity known as
“The Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Authority”; and,
WHEREAS, Blount County desires to transfer and deed to The Smoky Mountain Tourism
Development Authority the three (3) tracts of real property previously used by the Smoky Mountain
Visitor’s Bureau in Townsend, Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, the Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Authority agreed to pay to Blount County,
Tennessee, the sum of approximately $928,000.00 to pay off the capital outlay note obtained by the
County for purchase of said real property; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the passage of Resolution No. 12-05-008 authorizing the creation of a
Tourism Development Authority was to set authority to operate as a legal entity without encumbering
the local governmental legislative bodies and allow Blount County to receive a portion of the hotelmotel
tax without being responsible for the day-to-day operation of a tourism bureau; and,
WHEREAS, grant of the three (3) tracts of real property described above was contemplated upon
approval of Resolution No. 12-05-008.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Blount County,
Tennessee, that said Board hereby approves the transfer by deed from Blount County, Tennessee, to
Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Authority, the three (3) tracts of property previously used
and managed by the Smoky Mountain Visitor’s Bureau, being more specifically described as a tract of
approximately 2.62 acres, being identified as Parcel No. 198.02 on Tax Control Map 096; a tract of