State lawmakers have stripped language from a bill that would have given a newly created Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority power to issue bonds, purchase property and hire personnel without oversight from the City Council. When Gainesville officials approved a resolution last month asking the Georgia General Assembly to pass the proposed bill, they called it nothing more than a name change to the current tourism bureau. A Feb. 24 story in The Times noted a possible expansion of powers under the bill.
Powers granted to proposed CVB stripped from bill