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Oak Harbor Lodging-Tax Panel Recommends Funding Package; City Award Set as Multi‑Year
Summary
The Lodging Tax Advisory Committee voted unanimously Oct. 29 to recommend a package of tourism and event grants to city council, translating application scores into percentage-based awards and designating the City of Oak Harbor award as multi-year while most other grants were recommended as single-year awards.
OAK HARBOR, Wash. — The Oak Harbor Lodging Tax Advisory Committee on Oct. 29 recommended a slate of lodging‑tax-funded grants for events and tourism promotion and set the City of Oak Harbor award as a multi‑year grant while most other awards were to be single‑year, the panel said after a detailed line-by-line review.
The committee, charged with advising council on how to spend money from the city’s lodging‑tax fund, debated whether to calculate awards using straight averages or by dropping high and low scores. Chair members said the group needed a defensible, council‑ready rationale for translating scores into awards; the panel agreed to use percentage tiers tied to score bands as a starting point.
"I did figure out the math here," the chair said while presenting a tiered approach—90 points and above at 90…
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