Req.#12372
"SOLUTIONNO. 37886
1 A RESOLUTION relating to economic development; authorizing the execution of
2 an interlocal agreement with Pierce County and the cities of DuPont, Fife,
Gig Harbor, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner for the establishment of the
3 Pierce County Tourism Promotion Area.
4 WHEREAS chapter 35.1 01 RCW authorizes counties to establish
5 tourism promotion areas to permit the levy of special assessments to be
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expended exclusively for tourism promotion, and
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8 WHEREAS, in March 2009, the operators of lodging businesses located
9 within Pierce County ("County") presented an initiation petition to the Pierce
lo County Council ("County Council") seeking to have the County Council
1 1 establish a Pierce County Tourism Promotion Area, and
1 2 WHEREAS, on May 19, 2009, the County Council adopted a resolution
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entitled "A Resolution of the Pierce County Council Providing Notice of the
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Intent to Establish a Tourism Promotion Area," and
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16 WHEREAS the cities of DuPont, Fife, Gig Harbor, Lakewood, Puyallup,
17 and Sumner have, by appropriate legislative action, authorized or are
i8 scheduled to consider authorization of the execution of an interlocal agreement
19 with the County establishing a Pierce County Tourism Promotion Area to
20 include the collection of special assessments from lodging businesses within
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their respective jurisdictions, and
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23 WHEREAS the proposed special assessments to be imposed on the
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