4985720 Public Oversight Roundtable on "Review of the Activities, Projected Revenue and Expenditures of the DC Office of Motion Picture and Television Development"

Council of the District of Columbia

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Notice of Public Oversight Roundtable

 

John A. Wilson Building   1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite G-6    Washington, DC 20004                                           

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr., Chairperson

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Announces a Public Oversight Roundtable

 

Review of the Activities, Projected Revenue and Expenditures of the

DC Office of Motion Picture and Television Development

 

Thursday, July 10, 2014, 2:30 P.M.

JOHN A. WILSON BUILDING, ROOM 120

1350 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr. announces the scheduling of a public oversight roundtable by the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs to review the District of Columbia’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development activities and expenditures in Fiscal Year 2014. The public oversight roundtable is scheduled for Thursday, July 10, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. in Room 120 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20004. 

 

The purpose of the public oversight roundtable is to review the agency’s current activities, including its progress to date in attracting out-of-state production to film in the District of Columbia and the recent announcement of Pigmental Studios’ intention to relocate from Los Angeles, CA to the District of Columbia.  The Committee is interested in learning what incentives were provided to make the relocation of Pigmental Studios possible.  According to one source, the District government is giving a $250,000 grant to Pigmental, which will be used support the studio’s relocation.

 

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify at the public oversight roundtable are asked to contact Ms. Faye Caldwell, Special Assistant to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, at [phone], or via e-mail at [e-mail] and furnish their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and organizational affiliation, if any, by the close of business Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Each witness is requested to bring 20 copies of his/her written testimony. Representatives of organizations and government agencies will be limited to 5 minutes in order to permit each witness an opportunity to be heard. Individual witnesses will be limited to 3 minutes.

 

If you are unable to testify at the hearing, written statements are encouraged and will be made a part of the official record.  The official record will remain open until close of business Monday, July 21, 2014.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee on Small and Local Business Development, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite G-6 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.