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Forks council reviews lodging-tax funding requests and a $20,000 geolocation-data study
Summary
City Council reviewed multiple 2026 lodging-tax applications — including a $170,000 Visitor Center request and $40,000 museum and trail-extension asks — and heard a $20,000 proposal to study anonymized geolocation data; councilmembers raised questions about costs and data access.
Mayor Tim Fletcher and the City Council reviewed competing requests for 2026 lodging-tax funds at a Nov. 24 special budget workshop, including a $20,000 proposal to study anonymized, aggregated geolocation and geospatial data and several large grants for local attractions and events.
Attorney/Planner Fleck asked the council to set aside $20,000 to study how anonymized, aggregated geolocation data could be collected and used by the city. Councilmember Soha asked whether data from the proposed system would be available to others; Mayor Tim Fletcher responded, "the data would be available to…
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