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Source: CUPE, Apr 30, 2010 11:31 AM

One of the consultant's reports released today on the proposed Halifax convention centre confirms the P3 option would be the more expensive one for taxpayers.

CUPE Nova Scotia President Danny Cavanagh says, "This confirms what we have been saying about this project.  The consultant has agreed with us that the public option is cheaper."

Criterion Communications report

Source: By John Woolfok,  Mercury News (CA), 11/17/2009 08:48:49 PM PST

Two years ago, a civil grand jury rapped San Jose officials for failing to hold the agency that runs the city's convention center responsible for missing its performance goals and costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year. On Tuesday, the City Council unanimously took action: It lowered those goals.

City management has been negotiating the revised performance measures since the council in January granted Team San Jose a renewed five-year contract. Chief Development Officer Paul Krutko, who oversees the city's new contract with the nonprofit to run the convention center and downtown theaters, said even the lower measures will be a challenge.

Source: By Christine Stapleton and Deana Poole, Palm Beach Post (FL), Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Convention and Visitors Bureau doesn't provide adequate management and operational oversight of the convention center and shouldn't oversee the $84 million county-owned facility, an audit released today concluded.

....... The audit report stopped short of calling for the county to take over management at the center. But the audit's release comes just days before county commissioners are scheduled to debate the matter.

Source: W. Scott Bailey, San Antonio Business Journal, 7:00 p.m. ET Feb. 19, 2006

San Antonio's municipally operated Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) has been without a permanent director since Melvin Tennant abruptly resigned nearly nine months ago. Some members of the hospitality industry are now using that fact to help convince top-level city leaders that the time has come to outsource CVB responsibilities to a new public-private organization. ..... In January 2001, long before the events of 9/11 changed everything in the tourism industry, officials here were flirting with the notion of privatizing San Antonio's CVB. ..... There are a couple of ways City Hall can look to outsource CVB operations. One option being discussed is the formation of a convention authority that would offer better long-term funding security and still provide management plenty of autonomy. Another possibility is the creation of a tax-exempt corporation. Some local leaders say that model may prove to be the most practical approach.