Marion County Contract for Services Normally Provided for a Profit Apparently Not Allowed Under 501(c)(6) Business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and boards of trade.




COUNTY CHAMBER AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS INCUBA TOR SERVICES
FOR THE PERIOD BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2015 TO SEPTEMBER 30,2016 

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501(c)(6)-1 Business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and boards of trade.

A short list of the $245,000 Contract for Not Allowed Chamber services normally provided for a profit by for-profit businesses.  Consultants, Real Estate, Incubator Developers take a second look at county business going to a 501 c 6.


  1. Employer recruitment marketing products and services - The CEP shall design and produce a series ofmarketing brochures, fliers, mailers, electronic media and other means of direct and indirect marketing initiatives for employer recruitment. All CEP printed or electronic marketing, shall have the COUNTY logo prominently included within the design indicating the COUNTY as a major stakeholder. A copy of the approved COUNTY logo design is available from the COUNTY'S Manager ofPublic Information. 


    2.  New employer recruitment services - The CEP shall provide a proactive business recruitment program designed to identify and target potential employers for the relocation or expansion of business operations to Marion County. 



    3.  Real estate support services - The CEP shall develop and maintain an interactive electronic web-based business real estate inventory program featuring existing countywide facilities and available building sites suitable to meet the needs ofnew and existing employers, site selection consultants and other business professionals seeking potential locations for new business activities. 
      

    4.  Existing employer assistance services - The CEP shall provide individualized assistance to existing employers and entrepreneurs seeking to expand business operations within Marion County. These services shall include, at a minimum, coordination between the employer and local governments, real estate assistance, demographic and economic marketing research, international trade support, and government procurement services. 

    5.  Small business incubator facility services - The CEP shall provide a minimum of 5,000 square feet of facility space to accommodate emerging entrepreneurial opportunities at one or more facilities throughout Marion County. 

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​§ 1.501(c)(6)-1 Business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and boards of trade.
A business league is an association of persons having some common business interest, the purpose of which is to promote such common interest and not to engage in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit. It is an organization of the same general class as a chamber of commerce or board of trade. Thus, its activities should be directed to the improvement of business conditions of one or more lines of business as distinguished from the performance of particular services for individual persons. An organization whose purpose is to engage in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit, even though the business is conducted on a cooperative basis or produces only sufficient income to be self-sustaining, is not a business league. An association engaged in furnishing information to prospective investors, to enable them to make sound investments, is not a business league, since its activities do not further any common business interest, even though all of its income is devoted to the purpose stated. A stock or commodity exchange is not a business league, a chamber of commerce, or a board of trade within the meaning of section 501(c)(6) and is not exempt from tax. Organizations otherwise exempt from tax under this section are taxable upon their unrelated business taxable income. See part II (section 511 and following), subchapter F, chapter 1 of the Code, and the regulations thereunder.
Click Here for the Actual Marion County Contract.  It appears that the Contract for Services normally provided for a Profit must be open to normal for-profit persons.

Marion County is pledged to operate as closely as possible within legal codes and laws and within the spirit of promoting all businesses and persons in Marion County that provide business services for a profit in the normal course of business operation.  Promotion, Art, Electronic Marketing, Promotion, News, Magazine Publishing, Promotional Education and Consulting, Business Plan and Development, Office Rental, and many more business services normally sought and paid for in the course of business.

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Recent Marion County Utilities Purchase facility showing Real Estate, Rentals, Investment, Out of State jobs recruitment, Video, business retention and other services that normally are provided by for-profit businesses and persons.

EDC/CEP/TDC Marion County for Profit.  Discover Marion County.

An example of a private for-profit business in real estate, rentals, promotion, development, out of state recruitment of jobs, and many more examples of services provided normally for profit.  

This property was sold for profit to Marion County Utilities to manage Utility customers in the area of service.

Normal for profit services.

Services provided by Marion County CC and Discover Marion County for profit.
proactive business recruitment program designed to identify and target potential employers for the relocation or expansion of business operations to Marion County. 

Real Estate Services Normally for Profit.

Multiple Real Estate Persons normally render these services for a Profit.
 Real estate support services - The Company  shall develop and maintain an interactive electronic web-based business real estate inventory program featuring existing countywide facilities and available building sites suitable to meet the needs ofnew and existing employers, site selection consultants and other business professionals seeking potential locations for new business activities. 

CEP Florida normally provides these services for profit.  That is what we do!

Existing employer assistance services - The contractor shall provide individualized assistance to existing employers and entrepreneurs seeking to expand business operations within Marion County. These services shall include, at a minimum, coordination between the employer and local governments, real estate assistance, demographic and economic marketing research, international trade support, and government procurement services. 

CEP Marion normally provides for a profit art, brochures, electronic flyers, mailers,and every required Service for a profit. See Discover Marion County, or Browning Communications.


Employer recruitment marketing products and services - The Marketing Company shall design and produce a series ofmarketing brochures, fliers, mailers, electronic media and other means of direct and indirect marketing initiatives for employer recruitment. All CEP printed or electronic marketing, shall have the COUNTY logo prominently included within the design indicating the COUNTY as a major stakeholder. A copy of the approved COUNTY logo design is available from the COUNTY'S Manager ofPublic Information. 
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