Item 5 Passed 11-0
Approve an ordinance designating a geographic area of the City as Project Financing Zone Number One, City of Austin, Texas, allowing the City to use certain incremental hotel-associated tax revenue, including certain hotel occupancy taxes, sales taxes, and mixed beverage taxes, to finance qualified projects, requesting that the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts deposit the State’s incremental hotel-associated tax revenue from the zone into a suspense account held in trust for the City’s financing of qualified project activities in the zone, and providing a zone expiration date of 30 years from the date of designation of the zone. Funding: This item may result in increased revenue for eligible City projects from certain State hotel-associated tax revenues.
The roll call
Approved on Consent 11-0
- Kirk Watson Mayor Yes
- Natasha Harper-Madison D1 Yes
- Vanessa Fuentes D2 Yes
- José Velásquez D3 Yes
- José "Chito" Vela D4 Yes
- Ryan Alter D5 Yes
- Mackenzie Kelly D6 Yes
- Leslie Pool D7 Yes
- Paige Ellis D8 Yes
- Zohaib "Zo" Qadri D9 Yes
- Alison Alter D10 Yes