Vintage old hotel bell on the table
Sonoma County supervisors are considering a plan to use new tourism tax money to fund road repairs and other essential services. City leaders said yesterday that if approved, they’d spend 20 percent – or one-million dollars – of the expected five-million dollars from a voter-approved increase on overnight hotel stays on repairing roads, parks and fire services. Additional shares would be used for affordable housing, code enforcement, event facility improvements and a new “tourism impact fund.” The board is scheduled to revisit the proposal sometime in the coming months.