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McCall council directs staff to draft ballot measure raising lodging tax, keeps 1% sales tax unchanged
Summary
At a McCall City Council work session, members signaled consensus to keep the existing 1% local-option sales tax unchanged and to pursue placing a lodging-tax increase on the ballot — targeting a 4% rate for 10 years — with staff to prepare ordinance language and public outreach ahead of a January first-touch review.
McCall City Council members spent the bulk of a work session discussing options for the city’s local-option taxes, focusing on the existing 1% local-option sales tax and the 3% lodging (heads-and-beds) tax. Councilors directed staff to prepare a ballot measure for voters that would keep the 1% sales-tax rate unchanged and increase the lodging tax to 4% for a 10-year term, and asked staff to return a draft ordinance for a first review in January.
Why it matters: The local-option-tax (LOT) revenues pay for the city’s transportation capital and maintenance program. Councilors and staff framed the possible lodging-tax increase as a way to offset rising construction costs, maintain grant-match capacity and preserve the city’s ability to deliver street, sidewalk and multimodal projects.
The council’s discussion emphasized three constraints: political acceptability, revenue…
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