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Spokane Valley council approves 2025 lodging-tax awards, transfers $500,000 toward sports course fund

2086810 · January 7, 2025
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Summary

City council voted to allocate 2025 lodging-tax funds to a slate of tourism events and to transfer $500,000 from the 2% fund to the 1.3% capital fund, and separately approved a $2.5 million award to build Phase 1 of the Spokane Sports Cross Country Course.

The Spokane Valley City Council on Jan. 7 approved two lodging-tax funding motions that together allocate tourism promotion awards from the city—s 2% hotel-motel tax (Fund 105) and direct $2.5 million from the 1.3% lodging tax (Fund 104) to the Spokane Sports Cross Country Course project.

City Finance staff and the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee recommended a series of awards from Fund 105 that the council read into the record and approved. Accounting and Finance Program Manager Sarah Farr told the council the city expects roughly $920,000 in 2025 revenues for the 2% tax and $790,000 for the 1.3% tax. She said Fund 105 awards total about $893,000 in grants plus a $500,000 transfer to Fund 104; the LTAC—s recommendation to the council…

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