STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Growing
AGENDA DATE: March 26, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): Citywide
DEPARTMENT: Department of Convention and Event Services
EXECUTIVE: Robin Bentley
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SUBJECT
Title
An ordinance amending Chapter 44, "Taxation," of the Dallas City Code by amending Section 44-35 to provide the authorized uses of revenue from the local Hotel Occupancy Tax to the Texas tax code statutory limit - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
Body
BACKGROUND
Subsection (c), of Section 44-35," "Levy; Amount; Disposition of Revenue," of Article V, "Hotel Occupancy Tax," of Chapter 44, "Taxation," of the Dallas City Code will be amended to reflect the following disposition of revenues for five years from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2025:
(c) Disposition of revenues collected from the seven percent tax must be as follows:
1. 4.718 percent must be paid prior to any other dispositions of revenue to:
a. the acquisition of sites for and the constructing, improving, enlarging, equipping, repairing, operating, and maintaining of the convention center complex or visitor centers, or both; or
b. pledging payment of bonds as authorized by Chapter 1504 of the Texas Government Code, as amended.
2. 1.232 percent to advertising and conducting solicitations and promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates or registrants to the city;
3. 1.050 percent to:
a. the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording, and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and exhibition of these major art forms; and
b. historical restoration and preservation projects to encourage tourists and convention delegates to vi...
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