LCSD revenue expected to increase by about $1M next fiscal year
Lowndes County School District is expecting to bring in $1 million more in revenue over the upcoming year, from $59 million in FY 2019 to $60 million in FY 2020, according to projections LCSD business manager Kenneth Hughes presented at a school board meeting Monday.
Restaurant tax: CVB funding in limbo as Legislature argues over tax
The fate of Lowndes County’s 2-percent restaurant sales tax hangs in the balance after a conference committee failed to agree Sunday evening on whether the new legislation should extend to all businesses that sell prepared meals, as was requested by both the City of Columbus and Lowndes County.
Restaurant tax: Joint restaurant tax resolution now unanimous
The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors have made it unanimous.
Restaurant tax: City OKs inter-local agreement with CVB
It took the Columbus City Council a matter of minutes to resolve the last apparent issue in a bid to extend the county wide 2-percent restaurant sales tax Wednesday.
Restaurant tax: Inter-local agreement clears CVB board on 5-4 vote
The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau board on Tuesday did its part to save a 2-percent county wide restaurant sales tax.
Restaurant tax: CVB again delays restaurant tax deal with city
Another last-minute wrinkle has delayed for at least another week the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau and the city reaching an inter-local agreement on dividing restaurant sales tax revenues.
Restaurant tax: CVB poised to accept city terms on restaurant tax
It appears The Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau board is prepared to accept the city’s terms for an inter-local agreement on how to distribute 2-percent restaurant sales tax funds.
Restaurant tax: CVB backs off most recent requests on restaurant tax
Following fierce pushback from city officials, a few Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau leaders appear to be backing off their proposed revisions to an inter-local agreement involving 2-percent restaurant sales tax funds.
Restaurant tax: City, CVB’s last minute requests stall tax talks
Last-minute requests from both the city and the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau board have again placed the future of a county-wide 2-percent restaurant sales tax in peril.
Restaurant tax: City works with CVB on restaurant tax solution
Columbus city councilmen are making a last-ditch effort to negotiate with the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau to renew a countywide restaurant tax set to expire in June.
Restaurant taxes a boon for area cities
The 2-percent restaurant tax collected in Lowndes County may change next year, following the Columbus City Council’s passing of an entirely new tax which would collect revenue only from city restaurants.
Supes deliver possible fatal blow to restaurant tax
Negotiations to renew Lowndes County’s 2-percent restaurant tax took a potentially fatal step backward Friday when the board of supervisors redoubled their efforts to keep any of the tax from being directly distributed for recreation.
Restaurant tax: Chism open to removing tax floor
District 37 Rep. Gary Chism offered mixed reviews to The Dispatch Thursday on suggestions that came out of a joint meeting of Columbus and Lowndes County leaders at Trotter Convention Center to discuss renewing the 2-percent restaurant tax.
Restaurant tax: Contentious city-county meeting yields few results
A frustrated Leroy Brooks stood up, put on his jacket and started gathering his belongings from the table in the Trotter Convention Center meeting room at which he had been seated for about two hours Thursday morning.
Restaurant tax: CVB offers compromise on 2-percent tax
The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau offered its own compromise Monday to the debate between Columbus and Lowndes County on how to divide future 2-percent restaurant tax revenue.
Restaurant tax: CVB board make-up remains sticking point
Although no motions were made and no votes were taken, the Lowndes County board of supervisors agreed during Wednesday’s meeting to accept most of the proposed changes for a joint resolution with the city asking an extension of the county’s 2-percent restaurant sales tax.
Restaurant tax: Mayor rejects LINK proposal dividing revenue
Columbus Mayor Robert Smith is rejecting a proposal to save a 2-percent restaurant sales tax, but he said he is open to continuing negotiations on how the tax revenue should be divided.
Competing tax resolutions put CVB in jeopardy
There are officially two competing resolutions seeking to renew the 2-percent food and beverage tax in Lowndes County.
CVB funding on the line as supes stay the course
The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors voted by a 3-2 margin Monday to pass the existing resolution for the extension of the 2-percent restaurant tax, which will divide the proceeds only between the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Golden Triangle Development LINK.
CVB expects to spend almost all its revenue in FY 2018
The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau is projected to spend all but $3.62 of its allotted revenue in Fiscal Year 2018, according to a budget document the organization provided The Dispatch.