Resolutions-2007-58

CITY OF TIFFIN IOWA RESOLUTION NO. 2007-58 A RESOLUTION TO SET A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR CONSIDERATION OF A HOTEL-MOTEL TAX UNDER IOWA CODE CHAPTER 423A. WHEREAS, the City Council wants to encourage economic development and the revenues necessary to fund economic development; and WHEREAS, Iowa Code Chapter 423A provides a method of raising revenue advantageous to residents and equitable to visitors; and WHEREAS, Iowa Code Chapter 423A allows a voter consideration of a motel-hotel tax at the next available election; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council Tiffin, Iowa, that issue of a hotel-motel tax under Iowa Code §423A be placed on the ballot at the general election set for November 6, 2007 in the following question: Should the following measure be adopted? Summary: Should Tiffin impose a 7% hotel-motel tax beginning July 1, 2008? Should the City of Tiffin impose a hotel-motel tax under the provisions of Iowa Code Chapter 423A at the rate of 7% upon the gross receipts from the renting of any and all rooms in any hotel, motel, inn or public lodging house and on all lodgings covered by Chapter 423A, beginning July 1, 2008 with revenues of the tax payable to the City general fund for community betterment and economic development projects? ON THE 19thth day of September 2007, at a regular meeting of the Tiffin City Council, Tiffin, Iowa, Councilperson Dils introduced A RESOLUTION TO SET A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR CONSIDERATION OF A HOTEL-MOTEL TAX UNDER IOWA CODE CHAPTER 423A, and made a motion for approval. The motion was seconded by Councilperson Petersen. Ayes: Dils, Petersen, Bartels and Demuth Nays: None Absent: Wright Motion carried.