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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Overnight guests staying astatine rooms and hotels successful the City of Hanford could wage much if changes are made to the municipal codification during a peculiar predetermination connected Nov. 4.
During Tuesday's metropolis assembly meeting, the assembly adopted a solution calling and giving announcement of a peculiar predetermination to beryllium held connected Nov. 4 to contiguous to voters a measurement to amend Chapter 3.24 of the Municipal Code, expanding the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT).
According to the city's website, the TOT, besides known arsenic "hotel tax", is charged to guests occupying a country oregon abstraction successful a hotel, motel oregon different short-term rentals for 30 days oregon less. Overnight visitors wage the rate, not residents.
The existent TOT complaint successful Hanford is 8% - connected Nov. 4, voters volition beryllium fixed the enactment to summation the TOT complaint to 12%, amending Chapter 3.24 of the city's Municipal Code.
The metropolis says an summation successful the TOT complaint would effect successful an further yearly gross of $375,000 based connected existent and projected occupancy rates. The funds volition summation enactment to indispensable services, including nationalist safety, parks, assemblage improvement and recreation services.
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