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02-13-1998 08:20AM FR31 TO 16124902292 P.03 COMAOMTY LOIDGING TAYLQIRJECIJ AND OBSERVATIONS I, TbV purpose of the leg tsx is to prov:Je a pennanent firtancing mechnimn for touram d ev elopmen t n om ty-Wide hi Roseville throu; h the Convention and Visitors Buroiu CVB)G 2. Tha:etahlishmmi ofa p==ent Io4ng ax proms will enable the concemed civic Onta#ics(City of RQWUIcjl City Council aid Roseville 0 nvention and i sitors Sucau)as WCH as the toudsm-related businesses and general retail bmun st -1 to plan,project and cmdinate at a hire] never before possible. The proposed statutes and or i tio--a1 accomtability stiucture establish a p d able and assured wiry-grin sit on- The prepo zed ordhume Vices a public/private rsWp to develop and promeft tourisn. As tourism( evelopmwt and promotion rases, so Will itself wuriam wrest result in addit3c-1 lod&g tax revenues. The 1 iplier tbfbd of the tou6sra dollars spent ire lkowville wiH undou)tecily to the ge=&I prosperity off'the cn*6 City- OBSERVATFONS: I. Ros6vi]Ws pTuposed ordinance comes at time when it is wady 111noal" to add such t to a tourer or busims traveler's lodging bill. 2. The:authors of the ordinance have hei r�d from the expexiences of communities who lave previously la6omd throve the proms of esta'-fishing sinYilar�ivi��utiti . 3. whOe l hav.not conducted an exhaustM survey,I know of to comity which has re esubliahmen Mien.t of ' ` ar Nov ilhel$ss,I wi l note that thm have been h' with ordinances which art cornperahle wb t�pr for �lZe+ p i��y: (a) Early al`s at establishing 8 Ic ling t8x meted those revenues in a general fund with the eventual conmquence that touarism devolor uent efforts were no longer f in&d,