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House Bill No. 5506

Public Act No. 22-118 671 of 739

[(e)] (f) The authority shall have the power to negotiate, and, with the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, to enter into an agreement with any private developer, owner or lessee of any building or improvement located on land in a private development district, as defined in section 32-600, providing for payments to the authority in lieu of real property taxes. Such an agreement shall be made a condition of any private right of development within the private development district, and shall include a requirement that such private developer, owner or lessee make good-faith efforts to hire, or cause to be hired, available and qualified minority business enterprises, as defined in section 4a-60g, to provide construction services and materials for improvements to be constructed within the private development district in an effort to achieve a minority business enterprise utilization goal of ten per cent of the total costs of construction services and materials for such improvements. Such payments to the authority in lieu of real property taxes shall have the same lien and priority, and may be enforced by the authority in the same manner, as provided for municipal real property taxes. Such payments as received by the authority shall be used to carry out the purposes of the authority set forth in subsection (a) of this section. [(f)] (g) The authority and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may enter into a memorandum of understanding pursuant to which: (1) Administrative support and services, including all staff support, necessary for the operations of the authority may be provided by the Department of Economic and Community Development, (2) the Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized to administer contracts and accounts of the authority, and (3) provision is made for the coordination of management and operational activities at the convention center, sport, exhibition or coliseum facilities and the stadium facility, that may include: (A) Provision for joint procurement and contracting, (B) the sharing of services and resources, (C) the coordination of promotional