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City Mulls Allocation of Hotel/Motel Tax Proceeds, Won’t Adjust Budget for Requests

September 8th, 2022 by WCBC Radio

City officials are in the process of of determining how to allocate $45,000 in hotel/motel proceeds. The annual distribution of funding was a topic of discussion Tuesday during a City Council work session at City Hall. Each year, a portion of the hotel/motel accommodation tax collected by Allegany County is distributed to the city, and officials subsequently make a portion available to organizations located within city limits that help attract visitors to the area. The city received a total of 19 applications and those requests total close to $100,000.  Even with the larger than usual request total, City Administrator Jeff Silka advised against adjusting the budget…

Councilman Rock Cioni concurred…