File #: 10-00092    Version:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: 1/8/2010 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 2/9/2010 Final action: 2/2/2010
Title: HEARING - Consider the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.) a) Receive and file a report from staff regarding a possible vulnerability related to the Board’s 1990 two percent (2%) transient occupancy tax increase; b) Adopt a Resolution Proposing to Continue the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate at Its Current Level of Ten Percent (10%), Submitting the Proposed Language for Continuation to the Electorate for Approval, and Requesting and Ordering Consolidation with the June 8, 2010 General Election on Said Tax Rate Continuation (4/5 Vote Required); or c) Consider the introduction (first reading) of an Ordinance Amending Section 32-12 of the Santa Barbara County Code to Decrease the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate from Ten Percent (10%) to Eight Percent (8%) of the Rent Charged and Repealing Ordinance No. 3889 (the Decrease and Repeal Ordinance); i) Set hearing for February 9, 2010 to consider the adoption (second reading) of the Decrease and Repeal Ordinance; and i...
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Resolution Proposing to Continue, 3. Decrease and Repeal Ordinance, 4. Resolution Proposing to Increase, 5. Decrease Ordinance (Revised), 6. Resolution Proposing to Increase (Revised)
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HEARING - Consider the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
 
a) Receive and file a report from staff regarding a possible vulnerability related to the Board's 1990 two percent (2%) transient occupancy tax increase;
 
b) Adopt a Resolution Proposing to Continue the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate at Its Current Level of Ten Percent (10%), Submitting the Proposed Language for Continuation to the Electorate for Approval, and Requesting and Ordering Consolidation with the June 8, 2010 General Election on Said Tax Rate Continuation (4/5 Vote Required); or
 
c) Consider the introduction (first reading) of an Ordinance Amending Section 32-12 of the Santa Barbara County Code to Decrease the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate from Ten Percent (10%) to Eight Percent (8%) of the Rent Charged and Repealing Ordinance No. 3889 (the Decrease and Repeal Ordinance);
 
i) Set hearing for February 9, 2010 to consider the adoption (second reading) of the Decrease and Repeal Ordinance; and
 
ii) Set hearing for February 9, 2010 to adopt a Resolution Proposing to Increase the Transient Occupancy Tax Rate from Eight Percent (8%) to Ten Percent (10%), Submitting the Proposed Language for Increase to the Electorate for Approval, and Requesting and Ordering Consolidation with the June 8, 2010 General Election. (4/5 Vote Required)
 
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY