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Town council approves 2025 accommodations-tax grants after long debate; some awards adjusted
Summary
After extended deliberation on Jan. 14, Hilton Head Island's Town Council approved the accommodations-tax advisory committee's recommended grants with several council-directed adjustments and individual roll-call votes.
After extended deliberations on Jan. 14, Town Council approved a set of accommodations-tax (ATAX) awards recommended by the town's advisory committee, with several adjustments that followed council amendments and roll-call votes.
Steven Arnold, chair of the ATAX advisory committee, presented the panel's recommendations and said the committee had to work without final fourth-quarter receipts: "we were kinda shooting in the dark," he said, explaining the committee's conservative approach to matching requests against projected revenues.
Councilmembers debated two policy questions at length: whether the committee should fully fund most…
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