STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Economic Development
AGENDA DATE: May 11, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 11, 12, 13, 14
DEPARTMENT: Office of Economic Development
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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Authorize (1) a public hearing to be held on June 8 , 2022, to receive comments concerning the Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District (the District) expansion in accordance with Senate Bill 804, allowing the City to include property in a hotel-public improvement district (hotel-PID) with the property owner's consent if such property could have been included in the District, when created, without violating the petition thresholds, to provide supplemental public services funded by assessments on Dallas hotels with 100 or more rooms (Qualifying hotels); and at the close of the hearing, (2) a resolution approving District boundary expansion to include an estimated 6 additional Qualifying hotels in the District not described in the resolution or petition re-establishing the District in 2016 or 2020 boundary expansion (District expansion) - Financing: This action has no cost consideration to the City (see Fiscal Information)
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BACKGROUND
The Public Improvement District Act, of the Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 372 (the Act), allows a city to create a hotel-public improvement district (hotel-PID) and to collect assessments from Qualifying hotel property owners. On June 13, 2012, the Dallas City Council established a hotel-PID named the Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District (the District). The District's boundaries are non-contiguous and include designated Qualifying hotel properties, as approved by City Council when the District was renewed on August 10, 2016 via Resolution No. 16-1250 and expanded on March 25, 2020 via Resolution No. 20-0520. Qualifying hotel property owners recover the District assessment from hotel guests at a rate of two percent (2%) of the price of th...
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