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Arlington council questions LTAC recommendations, seeks revised lodging-tax plan
Summary
City council members debated changes to the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee(LTAC) recommendations for 2026 distributions, disagreed on whether to reduce funding for long-established events, and directed staff to return with a revised process and a 45-day comment period for LTAC.
Arlington city council members spent more than an hour debating proposed 2026 lodging-tax distributions and whether to alter the LTAC (Lodging Tax Advisory Committee) recommendations. Council discussion focused on whether long-running events that already generate substantial revenue should have funding reduced and whether the LTAC scoring system should be updated.
The dispute began after a public commenter who identified themselves as an LTAC committee participant described the committee—s review process as objective and data-driven and said the panel scored applications using criteria established by a previous council. "Each committee member independently scored the applications prior to our meeting," the commenter said,…
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