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Commissioners press for itemized breakdown of $24.47M 2025 lodging-tax budget; ask for clarity on community investments and leases
Summary
Hamilton County commissioners reviewed the county's 2025 lodging-tax budget (listed at $24,470,000) on Jan. 23 and requested an itemized breakdown of community investments, ground lease rent payments, distributions to other jurisdictions, and other line items.
Hamilton County commissioners scrutinized the county's 2025 lodging-tax budget during the Jan. 23 meeting and requested staff provide a clearer, itemized breakdown of several line items.
County staff presented the lodging-tax budget for 2025 as $24,470,000 and summarized the consent agenda, which included that budget (item 3) along with other routine finance and personnel actions. Commissioner Alicia Reese pressed staff for details on specific line items that she said were unclear on the budget worksheet: the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame (a community investment funded from restricted lodging-tax receipts), a $130,000 rent line described as the ground lease on the Millennium site, a $132,900 entry listed as payments to "other jurisdictions," $15,000…
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