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LTAC recommends MLT Festival and disc-golf grant shares from $50,000 lodging-tax pool; council to act next meeting
Summary
The Lodging Tax Advisory Committee recommended splitting Mt. Lake Terrace’s remaining 2025 lodging tax allocation ($20,000) between MLT Cares (recommended $19,500) for a replacement festival and Force Property PNW (recommended $500) for a disc-golf tournament. Council was briefed; formal council action was deferred to a subsequent meeting.
The Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC) recommended on April 17 that Mountlake Terrace award the remaining $20,000 of its 2025 lodging-tax budget to two applicants, the city’s recreation director told council on April 24.
Jeff Betts, recreation and parks director, said the city’s budget for 2025–26 set aside $50,000 in hotel–motel (lodging) tax funds, generated by one studio-6 hotel in the Gateway neighborhood. In an earlier, first allocation this year the committee and council awarded $30,000 (Friends of the Arts, $10,000; Mountlake Terrace Chamber of Commerce, $20,000), leaving $20,000 available for a second…
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