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Re: Performing Arts Center Public Meeting


Myrtle Beach City Council

Performing Arts Center Public Meeting

6:00 p.m., Monday, July 11, 2011

Rooms 206-208, Myrtle Beach Convention Center

How do you feel about adding a performing arts center to the Myrtle Beach Convention

Center? That’s the subject of a public meeting at 6:00 p.m., Monday, July 11, in Rooms 206-

208 at the Convention Center. City Council is hosting the meeting to hear from the public, prior

to any decision about a winter referendum on possible funding for such a project.

Plans are in place – but not the financing – for the performing arts center at the Convention

Center. As proposed, the facility would include an 800-plus seat theatre, a “black box”

performance space, a rehearsal hall, lobby art gallery, dual dressing rooms, back-of-house

scenery and construction space, restrooms, concessions area and box office. The public is

invited to comment at 6:00 p.m., Monday.

City Council recently has considered the possibility of a winter referendum on funding for

such a performing arts center. If Council ultimately schedules a referendum, voters likely would

be asked whether they favor raising property tax rates by approximately three mills to repay up

to $10 million in bonds to build a performing arts center. For an owner-occupied home with an

assessed value of $200,000, a three mill increase would be an additional $24 per year.