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Clatsop County holds first public hearing on higher transient lodging tax to shore up public safety funding
Summary
County staff proposed consolidating county transient lodging rules and raising unincorporated and countywide transient lodging tax rates to generate discretionary revenue for public‑safety services; commissioners continued the hearing to Feb. 12 while pursuing parallel legislative relief.
Clatsop County held the first public hearing on an ordinance to consolidate transient lodging tax (TLT) code sections and increase local rates to help cover tourism‑driven public‑safety costs.
County staff presented a dual approach: continue pursuing legislative change to ORS 320.35 to give highly impacted coastal counties more flexibility, and in the near term amend local code to raise the unincorporated rate by $0.01 and the countywide rate by $0.02. Staff said the combined package, if unchanged, would generate roughly $4.1 million in additional TLT receipts but that only about $1.23 million of that total would be discretionary revenue available to offset general‑fund…
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