TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF JUNE 15, 2017
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. David St. Pierre, Executive Director
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Authority to issue a one (1) day permit for Mesquite Productions, Inc. to access the District’s Calumet Water Reclamation Plant grounds for filming related to an Amazon Sony series “Electric Dreams”. Consideration shall be $15,000.00
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Dear Sir:
Mesquite Productions, Inc. ("Mesquite") has requested a one (1) day permit to access the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant (“CWRP”) grounds for filming scenes of an Amazon Sony series “Electric Dreams”. Mesquite intends to film the scenes in two areas of CWRP, the B Battery Room and the Pump and Blower Building. Filming inside the Pump and Blower Building will be in the elevator and on Floor S2. Mesquite expects to use a crew of approximately 120 people. Given the size of the production, additional areas inside CWRP grounds will be needed for parking, staging tents, installing portable sanitary facilities, and storing other equipment. The requested duration of the permit is one (1) day.
Because the filming relates to a television series of which the District has no control over content, the District’s signs, logo, or identification of the property with the District is not permitted in the movie. However, this does not preclude acknowledgment of the District’s cooperation in the film’s closing credits.
The District's technical departments have reviewed Mesquite’s request to film at CWRP and have no objections thereto. It is recommended that the permit fee be $15,000.00 due to the expedited nature of the request.
It is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a one (1) day permit for Mesquite Productions, Inc. to access the District’s Calumet Water Reclamation Plant grounds for filming related to an Amazon Sony series “Electric Dreams”. Consideration shall be $15,000.00.
It is also requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and direct the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk to execute the permit agreement after it is approved by the Acting General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Susan T. Morakalis, Acting General Counsel, STM:CMM:MM
Recommended, David St. Pierre, Executive Director
Respectfully Submitted, David J. Walsh, Chairman Committee on Real Estate Development
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for June 15, 2017
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