ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Phoenix, Arizona
appropriation; titan
ballistic missile museum
Appropriates
$500,000 from the state general fund in FY 2001-2002 to the Department of Commerce
(DOC) for an education and visitor’s center and archival storage at the
National Historic Landmark Titan Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Museum
(Museum).
Background
The
Museum, located south of Tucson in Sahaurita, is the only intact Titan II Missile
site remaining following the missile program’s phase-out in the 1980s. Pima County currently owns the site and
leases Museum operations to the Arizona Aerospace Foundation (Foundation).
The Museum attracts
approximately 50,000 visitors each year.
To increase visitation and attract additional tourists to the area, the
Museum is seeking to replace the existing temporary structures that comprise
its visitor’s center with a permanent 8,281 square foot visitor’s and education
center. The proposal also includes an
exhibit gallery, archival storage, a library and parking.
The
total projected cost to build the new center is approximately $1.1
million. The Foundation has raised over
$600,000 in the form of cash and future pledges. S.B. 1052 appropriates $500,000 in FY 2001-2002 from the state
general fund to DOC to match monies the Foundation has raised for an education
and visitor’s center and archival storage at the Museum.
1. Makes a nonlapsing appropriation of $500,000 from the state general fund in FY 2001-2002 to DOC to match monies the Foundation has raised for an education and visitor’s center and archival storage at the Museum.
2. Provides for a general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Staff
January 15, 2001