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The Port of Brookings Harbor is researching the possibility arthur rutenberg homes virtual tour of adding a transient occupancy tax to the May ballot after Commissioner Jim Relaford mentioned the idea to his fellow commissioners during Tuesday night s meeting.
The city s been doing it, and has had it for some time, Relaford said in an interview. It certainly is a tax that wouldn t hurt us. Basically it s for transients who stay in hotel rooms, motel rooms and RV parks. They come down and use the services of the port without having to pay for it. This is one way we can fund the port so (tourists) have a place to come.
Well I think that the transient room tax has been pretty specifically designed by the legislature (to) go toward tourism, so if the port was to go in that direction I would want to definitely focus at least the vast majority of the money if not all of it on promotions, Fitzgerald said. I think that it could benefit the port and the community. More so the community than the port. I think the port would just be the best entity arthur rutenberg homes virtual tour to direct those promotional dollars. ... I think it would pay off in big dividends.
For us it is very important, Milliman arthur rutenberg homes virtual tour said. We use 75 percent of the proceeds of the tax for general city operations, and we use 25 percent of it for tourism promotion. We receive about $138,000 a year from the transient arthur rutenberg homes virtual tour occupancy tax.
There needs to be some review as to how that would work, he said. What we would need to avoid is having lodging facilities in Brookings paying a transient tax to the city and another transient tax to the port district. We need to see how to deal with that.