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After executive session, Hochatown board authorizes legal action over alleged lodging-tax remittance errors
Summary
Following executive session, trustees authorized the town—s legal team to pursue remedies for alleged incorrect collection or remittance of sales, use and lodging taxes related to marketplace/booking companies; motion passed by roll call.
After meeting in executive session to discuss confidential attorney communications and possible legal claims, a trustee (S6) moved and another trustee (S1) seconded a motion authorizing the town—s legal team to "pursue all legal means and actions to remedy the incorrect collection and or remittance of sales, use and lodging tax that is due to the town," according to the transcript. The clerk then conducted a roll-call vote and the motion carried.
The transcript identifies the subject of the executive-session discussion as communications with town attorneys concerning investigations or claims involving marketplace speculators and lodging/booking companies; no company names or litigation details were provided in open session. The board did not record additional details about settlement parameters in open session.
