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Groups plot new strategy for revised tourist tax.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 24-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As Yogi Berra might say, the push by a firefighters' union to restructure the most recent proposal to raise the tax the city charges visitors to stay in area hotels is "deja vu all over again."

In April, a trio of San Diego City Council members proposed raising the tax 2.5 percent to 13 percent to provide additional funding for fire and police protection in the face of the current budget crunch. The City Attorney's office has been asked to draft language to put that measure on the November ballot.

But talks between the San Diego City Firefighters Local 145 and a local hotel group could result in rounds of negotiations on the intent of the measure. Earlier this year, an initiative to raise the transient occupancy tax, or TOT as it's called, went on the March ballot. It did not pass, although it won more than...

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