The Hollywood Park Economic Development Corporation voted to create internal committees and directed the strategy and operations committee to refine the draft committee charter before the next meeting.

The board approved formation of at least two committees — a strategy and operations committee and an intergovernmental/outreach committee — after members debated language in the draft charter and requested edits to several objectives.

Why it matters: Committees are intended to give board members a smaller working group to research opportunities, prepare recommendations and manage recurrent tasks such as grant and contract-policy review, outreach and promotional efforts. The board’s edits seek to align committee duties with state statutory terminology and the EDC’s broader revenue goals.

Key edits requested: Members asked that the strategy and operations committee broaden an objective that originally read “maximize revenue from sales and use taxes” to language that would “research and recommend ways to increase and/or mitigate decreases for Hollywood Park tax revenue,” explicitly widening the scope beyond sales and use tax to include property and other tax revenue sources. Members also asked that “branding and marketing” language be replaced with “promotional efforts” to match phrasing in the Texas code.

Outcome and follow-up: The resolution to form committees was adopted by voice vote. The board charged the strategy and operations committee with rewriting the committee charter to reflect the agreed edits and returning the revised text at a future meeting. The intergovernmental/outreach committee’s tasks were discussed to include festival and event coordination (examples cited include trunk-or-treat and Fourth of July events).

Speakers (selected): Brian (EDC member) led discussion of the draft; Martha Sanchez and other members offered editorial changes. Austin Mills (city attorney) participated on procedural and legal phrasing. Jeanette (city staff) will support committee follow up.

Ending: The board approved the committee structure and directed staff and the strategy and operations committee to prepare a clean revised charter for adoption at a subsequent meeting.