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City attorney outlines decades-long history of Lake Havasu's bed tax and the Go Lake Havasu contract
Summary
City attorney presented a timeline of the transient-occupancy and restaurant/food taxes used for tourism funding, noted multiple funding-mechanism changes since the 1980s and said the current fixed-payment contract runs through June 30, 2029.
At the start of the March 10 Lake Havasu City work session, city attorney Miss Gary gave a historical overview of the local transient-occupancy ("bed") tax and related restaurant/food taxes and how the city's tourism funding agreements evolved.
Miss Gary traced the funding model from a 1981 ordinance that created a 3% transient-occupancy tax to support tourism promotion and community projects, through a series of contracts with the chamber of commerce and a visitor-and-convention bureau. In the mid-1990s the council…
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