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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 04/19/2022 - RESOLUTION 2022-052 APPOINTING ARYELL MATTERN TO T Agenda Item 23 Item # 23 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 19, 2022 Economic Health STAFF Clay Frickey, Redevelopment Program Manager John Duval, Legal SUBJECT Resolution 2022-052 Appointing Aryell Mattern to the Fort Collins Tourism Improvement Board. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appoint Aryell Mattern to the Tourism Improvement District Board of Directors. The appointment of Aryell Mattern fills a vacancy left due to the resignation of Dragan Andrejic. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION On August 4, 2021, Council adopted Ordinance No. 097, 2021 establishing the Fort Collins Tourism Improvement District. The District’s purpose is , “…to operate as a [tourism improvement district] cha rging fees to the lodging businesses included within the District to fund and provide specific tourism services and improvements for the benefit of the feepayers’ lodging businesses. These services and improvements will be primarily used to increase room night sales for those lodging businesses.” Council adopted the District’s Initial Plan as part of establishing the District. The District’s Initial Term in the Initial Plan is for 10 years, 4 months beginning on September 1, 2021, and ending December 31, 2031. As part of adopting the Initial Plan, Council appointed the initial five members of the Tourism Improvement Board of Directors. Since establishing the District, one of the members of the Board of Directors resigned. The member that resigned, Dragan Andrejic, represented a full-service lodging business. Considering the resignation, the Board of Directors sought other qualified applicants to serve on the Board of Directors from a full -service lodging business. On March 24, 2022, the Tourism Improvement D istrict Board of Directors adopted and approved a resolution nominating Aryell Mattern to fill the vacancy on the Board. Aryell Mattern has indicated a willingness to serve on the Board of Directors and represents a full -service lodging business in accordance with the Initial Plan. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION The Tourism Improvement District Board adopted and approved a resolution on March 24, 2022 , nominating Aryell Mattern to fill the vacancy on the Board of Directors. ATTACHMENTS 1. Nominating Resolution (PDF) FORT COLLINS TOURISM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NOMINATING RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Tourism Improvement District (the "District") was created by the City of Fort Collins (the “City”) Ordinance (No. 097) dated August 4, 2021 (the “Establishing Ordinance”) to fund and provide certain tourism services and improvements for the benefit of lodging businesses within the District; and WHEREAS, in the Establishing Ordinance, the City appointed five (5) individuals to serve as the Board of Directors of the District, with the requirement that three (3) directors be affiliated with a large full-service Lodging Business; one (1) director be affiliated with a small limited service Lodging Business; and one (1) director affiliated with a boutique/specialty Lodging Business; and WHEREAS, since the appointment of the five (5) Board members, one (1) such member (Dragan Andrejic—appointed to a two-year term as affiliated with a large full-service Lodging Business) has resigned his Board position; and WHEREAS, the District wishes to have the vacancy on the Board filled by a qualified elector of the District; and WHEREAS, the District has identified an elector who is qualified and interested in serving on the District Board. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the Fort Collins Tourism Improvement District, within the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, as follows: 1. As a result of the resignation of one of the originally appointed Board members, the Board of the District has a vacancy which it desires to have filled for the remainder of the term of the resigning director with a qualified elector of the District. 2. The filling of the vacancy on the Board is in the best interest of the public and the District. 3. The following individual is a qualified elector of the District, who has indicated a willingness to serve on the District Board: a. Aryell Mattern (Vice President of Operations, Sales and Marketing, Spirit Hospitality—owner of Fairfield Inn and Candlewood Suites, Fort Collins, CO). 4. The above identified individual is affiliated with a large full-service Lodging Business and thus is fully qualified to replace the resigning Board member. 5. The Board therefore desires and does hereby nominate for appointment by the City, Aryell Mattern to fill the term of resigning Board member Dragan Andrejic. ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 24th day of March, 2022. ATTACHMENT 1 -1- RESOLUTION 2022-052 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPOINTING ARYELL MATTERN TO THE FORT COLLINS TOURISM IMPROVEMENT BOARD WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Tourism Improvement District (the “District”) was established by City Council’s adoption of Ordinance No. 097, 2021, on August 4, 2021, as subsequently amended by Council’s adoption of Ordinance No. 161, 2021, on December 7, 2021 (jointly, the “Establishing Ordinance”) to fund and provide certain tourism services and improvements for the benefit of lodging businesses within the District; and WHEREAS, as provided in City Code Section 22-163(b)(5), the City Council appointed in Section 7 of the Establishing Ordinance (“Section 7”) the District’s initial five directors of the District’s Board of Directors (the “Board”); and WHEREAS, Code Section 22-164(a) requires the District’s directors to be “electors” of the District; and WHEREAS, Code Section 22-153 defines “elector” to mean a natural person who is a resident of the State of Colorado, is eighteen (18) years of age or older and registered to vote in general elections in the State of Colorado, and who maintains a lodging tax license with City and is obligated to pay the lodging tax by virtue of ownership and operation of a lodging business in the District or is a natural person designated to vote for an entity that is not a natural person and maintains a lodging tax license with the City and is obligated to pay the lodging tax by virtue of ownership of a lodging business in the District; and WHEREAS, Section 7 requires that three of the directors must be affiliated with a large full-service lodging business in the District, one director must be affiliated with a small limited- service lodging business in the District, and one director must be affiliated with a boutique or specialty lodging business in the District; and WHEREAS, Dragan Andrejic was appointed in Section 7 to a two-year term beginning September 1, 2021, as one of the directors of a large full-service lodging business in the District (“Director Andrejic”); and WHEREAS, Director Andrejic has recently resigned from the Board before the expiration of his two-year term that will expire on September 1, 2023; and WHEREAS, Section 7 provides that when a director resigns from the Board before the expiration of their term, the City Council shall appoint by resolution an elector of the District to replace them to finish the remainder of their term; and WHEREAS, on March 24, 2022, the Board adopted a resolution nominating Aryell Mattern to be appointed by the City Council as director of the Board to replace Director Andrejic and to complete his term; and -2- WHEREAS, Aryell Mattern is the Vice President of Operations, Sales and Marketing of Spirit Hospitality, which is the owner of Fairfield Inn and Candlewood Suites in Fort Collins, both of which are full-service lodging businesses in the District that have lodging tax licenses with the City, and she has been designated by Spirit Hospitality to vote for it in District elections; and WHEREAS, Aryell Mattern is also a resident of the State of Colorado, at least 18 years of age, and registered to vote in general elections in the State of Colorado; and WHEREAS, Aryell Mattern is a qualified elector of the District and, therefore, qualified to serve as a director on the Board; and WHEREAS, City Council has determined that the appointment of Aryell Mattern to serve as director on the Board is in the best interests of the City and the District. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes any and all determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That the City Council hereby appoints Aryell Mattern to serve as director on the Board to finish the term of Director Andrejic ending September 1, 2023. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 19th day of April, A.D. 2022. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _____________________________ City Clerk