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Visitor bureau reports $1.577 million budget, warns lodging-tax changes would alter local split
Summary
Janice Longway, executive director of the Coos Bay–North Bend–Charleston Visitor and Convention Bureau, presented a semiannual report saying the bureau has a $1,577,000 budget, is tracking ahead on revenue, and warned of state-level lodging-tax proposals that could change longstanding local revenue splits.
Janice Longway, executive director of the Coos Bay–North Bend–Charleston Visitor and Convention Bureau, told the Coos Bay City Council that the bureau’s adopted budget for the fiscal year is $1,577,000 and that the organization is at roughly 63% of expected income and has spent about 45% of the budget midway through the year.
Longway said the bureau has received first-quarter transient lodging tax (TLT) receipts from the City of Coos Bay and Coos County and expects other portions of expected lodging-tax receipts to arrive on a different cadence. "Our budget this year is $1,577,000," she said.
The nut graf: The bureau argued its marketing and event work returns community economic activity and cautioned that pending changes at the state level to lodging-tax rules could affect how much…
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