HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Another delay has come up in the effort to land a outside contractor to operate the Holland Civic Center.
Deputy City Manager Matt Van Dyken told City Council members 11 days ago the urgency of securing such a firm, citing factors such as booking events that makes its schedules up to a year in advance, as the renovation of the facility still has a timeline of completion by this fall. While council agreed in principle to retain VenuWorks as such an operator on February 7th, the panel decided to hold off on a proposed 5-year agreement with the Iowa-based firm while matters such as establishing a business plan for operations were finalized.
At the time, it was felt that the details of the agreement would be before council by its next scheduled business meeting of February 21st, but that timeline may have to be altered, as this afternoon’s slated Civic Center Place Board meeting, in which a vote on a contract with VenuWorks and a discussion of such a business plan with a representative of that firm was on the agenda, has been canceled “due to a lack of a quorum,” according to city officials. No new date for the board’s next meeting has yet been published on the city’s Civic Web site.
