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A. Sales and marketing programs and activities designed to attract overnight groups. B. Communications and public relations activities and services to build greater awareness of Tri-Valley businesses and the Tri- Valley region as a tourism, meeting, and event destination. C. Administrative costs and operation. 5.36.050 Assessments: All lodging businesses with 35 or more rooms available for public occupancy within the boundaries of the District shall be subject to an assessment based upon one dollar per paid occupied room per night. 5.36.060 Exemptions: Stays by persons who are govemment employees on government business and stays of 30 days or more shall be exempt from the assessment. 5.36.070 Power to Contract: The Council may contract from time to time with a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation, the purpose of which shall be to carry out the purposes for which the assessments are levied and provided in this Chapter. In the event such agreement is made, it shall provide that the corporation shall present a budget of proposed expenditures and purposes to the City Manager for investigation and report to the Council upon the advisability and feasibility of the proposed expenditures and improvements. Upon approval of the budget requests, the Council shall allocate and direct payment of such amounts as it shall determine to the contracting agency by the City finance office. The Tri- Valley Convention & ~ Visitors Bureau shall be designated as the contracting agency. 5.36.080 Collection Of Assessments: Each City shall be responsible for collecting the assessments from the lodging businesses subject to the assessment within that City. The assessments collected shall be transmitted to the City of Pleasanton who shall administer the funds collected. In Pleasanton the assessments provided by this Chapter shall be collected at the time and in the manner and with the same penalties as is provided in this Code for the collection of Transient Occupancy Taxes. EXHIBIT 1