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LTAC recommends $10,000 to Friends of the Arts and $20,000 to Chamber dog festival; council to reopen short application window
Summary
The Mountlake Terrace Lodging Tax Advisory Committee recommended awarding $10,000 to Friends of the Arts for Arts the Terrace and $20,000 to the Chamber’s proposed Dog Festival; staff proposed a two-week reopening of the application window to let qualifying summer events apply for remaining funds.
Recreation and parks director Jeff Betts and events coordinator Andrew Applewick presented the lodging-tax advisory committee (LTAC) recommendation for 2025 hotel–motel tax allocations.
Betts said the city’s Studio 6 hotel on Gateway collects the city’s hotel–motel tax. The 2025 budget set aside $50,000 for lodging-tax awards; the available ending fund balance in the lodging-tax fund was roughly $250,000 before the 2025 allocation. LTAC reviewed two complete applications received by the December 19 deadline: Friends of the Arts…
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