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MARCH 27, 2007
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PURPOSE:
AMEND ROOM TAX/SET ALLOCATION AMOUNTS
INITIATED BY:
CITY ADMINISTRATION - Upon Recommendation by the
OSHKOSH CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OSHKOSH DO ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 8-1.1 (B) of the Oshkosh Municipal Code pertaining to
HOELlMOTEL ROOM TAX is repealed and recreated to read as follows:
(B) Pursuant to Section 66.0615 of the Wisconsin Statutes, a tax is hereby imposed
on the privilege and service of furnishing, at retail, of rooms or lodging to
transients by hotel keepers, motel operators and other persons furnishing
accommodations that are available to the public, irrespective of whether
membership is required for the use of the accommodations. Such tax shall be at
the rate of ten percent (10%) of the gross receipts from such retail furnishing of
rooms or lodging. Such tax shall not be subject to the selective sales tax imposed
by Section 77.52(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes. The proceeds of such tax shall
be remitted monthly to the City Treasurer.
(1) Subject to any superior obligation for debt service and operations related to
the Oshkosh Centre not otherwise met by the following allocations, the
treasurer shall distribute the receipts on a monthly basis, as follows:
a. the City shall retain the first two percent (2%), and the full amount of all
receipts attributable to 1 N. Main S1.
b. the Oshkosh Convention and Visitors Bureau, hereby designated as a
tourism entity as that term is defined in Sec. 66.0615, Wis. Stats., shall
receive the next one percent (1 %), except that portion of this one percent
(1 %) attributable to 1 N. Main S1.
c. the remaining seven percent (7%) exclusive of receipts attributable to 1 N.
Main S1. which the City shall retain, shall be divided as follows:
i. 19% to the Grand Opera House Foundation
ii. 80% to the Convention and Visitors Bureau
iii. 1 % to the City of Oshkosh for Centre Operations
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d. Provisions related to City retention of the receipts attributable to 1 N. Main
S1. shall automatically be repealed upon City repayment of the current
indebtedness on the Centre.
SECTION 2. Provisions within any agreements between the City of Oshkosh
and the Oshkosh Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Grand Opera Foundation,
which have a different allocation formula or payment schedule, are terminated.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be effective upon passage and publication as
provided by law, for all receipts on or after 12:01 a.m. on May 1,2007.