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Hotel-occupancy-tax cultural fund collections: March totals $1.96 million; FY25 cultural fund at $7.17 million to date
Summary
City staff reported March hotel-occupancy-tax (HOT) collections and discussed tracking event-driven spikes as the convention center closes and new festivals emerge.
Matthew Schmidt, acting cultural arts division manager, told the Arts Commission that the city collected $1,964,718 in hotel-occupancy tax (HOT) in March 2025, producing $169,486 for the HOT cultural arts fund that month. "The total hotel occupancy tax collection in March was $1,964,718," Schmidt said. He reported that HOT cultural-arts fund actuals for fiscal year 2025 total $7,171,105 to date.
Schmidt and commissioners noted timing lags in reporting: the April presentation covered funds collected in…
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