4538744 Public Oversight Roundtable Notice on "A Review of the Office of Motion Picture and Television Development’s Plans For Incentivizing Film and Television Production for Fiscal Year 2014"

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., Chair

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Announces a Public Oversight Roundtable

 

on

 

A Review of the Office of Motion Picture and Television Development’s Plans

For Incentivizing Film and Television Production for Fiscal Year 2014

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013, 10 A.M.

JOHN A. WILSON BUILDING, ROOM 500

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 Office of Motion Picture and Television Development’s (OMPTD’s) fiscal year 2014 plans for incentivizing film and television production in the District of Columbia.

 

The public oversight roundtable is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.  The purpose of the public oversight roundtable is to receive an update from the OMPTD on studies commissioned in FY 2013 to examine the feasibility of providing a workable competitive film incentive program and of the economic benefits of establishing state-of-the-art soundstage in the District of Columbia.  The Committee is also interested in learning how the agency will manage the Film DC Economic Incentive Fund, which was provided with $4 million under the FY 2014 Budget Support Act, and increase revenues for the District’s treasury, and the recent decision of the Metropolitan Police Department to deny permits for a recent shooting of the Netflix production of  “House of Cards,” in which the MPD would be portrayed providing a fictional presidential motorcade. 

 

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify at the public oversight roundtable are asked to contact Ms. Faye Caldwell, Administrative Assistant to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, at [phone], or via e-mail at [e-mail] or Gene Fisher, Committee Director, at [e-mail] and furnish their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and organizational affiliation, if any, by the close of business Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Each witness is requested to bring 20 copies of his/her written testimony. Representatives of government agencies, corporate industry, and industry organizations 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 public oversight roundtable, written statements are encouraged and will be made a part of the official record.  The official record will remain open until close of business Wednesday, October 16, 2013.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite G-6 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.