File #: 2019-6549   
Type: Council Referral
Body: City Council
On agenda: 4/16/2019
Title: Consider Raising the Rate of the Hotel Tax (Transient Occupancy Tax). (Councilmember Daysog) [Continued from March 19, 2019 to April 16, 2019]
Attachments: 1. Presentation

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Consider Raising the Rate of the Hotel Tax (Transient Occupancy Tax).  (Councilmember Daysog)  [Continued from March 19, 2019 to April 16, 2019]

 

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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM

 

The Council can take any of the following actions:

1) Take no action.

2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.

3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.

 

Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Tony Daysog

 

Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): December 18, 2018

 

Council Meeting date: March 19, 2019

 

Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:

 

. . . On raising the hotel tax rate (“transient occupancy tax”) (which is almost entirely paid by non-Alamedan visitors) from the current 10% to ___%, to fund visitor-serving activities.

 

Priority Ranking:

 

 ↑ Urgent

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1

4

 

Important →

 

____ 1 = Not urgent, not important

____ 2 = Urgent, not important

____ 3 = Urgent and important

__X_ 4 = Not urgent, important