City of Phoenix v. Phoenix Civic Auditorium & Convention Center Ass'n

McFarland, Justice:

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment wherein the trial court held that an agreement entered into between the City of Phoenix, hereinafter called the City, and the Phoenix Civic Auditorium & Convention Center Association, Inc., a nonprofit organization, hereinafter called the Association, was violative of the Arizona budget laws as provided for in A.R.S. § 42-301 to 42-312, as amended, and was therefore an invalid and void agreement.

In December 1963 the City and the Association entered into an agreement whereby the Association or others would finance the…