15C.3  Duties of the committee.
  1.  It shall be the duty of the Iowa world trade center selection advisory committee to accept and review proposals from private groups to organize, construct, operate, and market the Iowa world trade center. In submitting a proposal, the private group shall also submit a study outlining the feasibility of its proposal. A private group submitting a proposal must include among its investors a significant number of Iowa-based companies and individuals. The committee is empowered to contract for an independent analysis of a proposal submitted. The committee is empowered to recommend for ratification by the executive council a proposal to obligate, but not in excess of thirty million dollars, the state in the construction of the Iowa world trade center under the recommended proposal. However, a proposal shall not be recommended unless the proposal provides that the private group shall provide moneys at least equal to the amount which the committee has recommended for obligation by the state. The proposal recommended by the committee must include an agreement from the private group that construction of the Iowa world trade center will begin no later than December 15, 1985, and that a nonprofit corporation will be created by the private group pursuant to section 15C.4 to facilitate the state’s involvement in the construction, operation, and marketing of the Iowa world trade center. In approving a proposal of a private group, the committee may employ other selection criteria that are consistent with the above standards. Once the committee has recommended a contract proposal, it shall be submitted for ratification to the executive council. The committee shall present a proposal by August 1, 1985 for ratification by the executive council.
  2.  The committee shall cease to exist upon ratification of the contract submitted to the executive council.
  3.  The members of the committee, upon ratification of the contract by the executive council, shall automatically become the state’s representatives on the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation organized to facilitate the state’s involvement in the Iowa world trade center pursuant to section 15C.4.
85 Acts, ch 33, §503
CS85, §18C.3
C93, §15C.3