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Resort Cities Coalition Meeting | Friday, January 20, 2023 | Notes
• Attendees: Neil Bradshaw, Courtney Hamilton & Jade Riley (Ketchum),
Kathryn Goldman (Bellevue), Jeremy Besbris (Victor)
August Christensen & Doug Self (Driggs), Steve Geiger (Ponderay)
George Eskridge & Michele (Dover), Shelby Rognstad & Jennifer Stapleton (Sandpoint),
Anette Spickard, Michelle Groenevelt & Bob Giles (McCall)
• Staff: Aly Swindley & Wendy Jaquet
• Lobbyists: Emily McClure, Blake Youde & Hailie Johnson-Waskow (McClure Policy, LLC)
AGENDA:
• Prioritizing political capital – don’t advocate against each other. Voice is louder as one.
• RCC priorities reminder & updates to
o LOT
Property tax bills in the works – one would not impact LOT. The other,
however, is a Monks/Moyle bill – high likelihood of including LOT edits
but McClure has not seen it yet.
RCC gathering is on their calendars
o Short-term rentals not coming up in discussions. Try to solve locally.
o Workforce housing money:
They’ve spent $24M of ARPA funds (set-up as gap financing), $24M
remains
Rental assistance is a hot-button issue usually.
McCall – change eligibility to apply for grant money?
• Tell Blake why you’re not eligible and he’ll ask the committee.
Jade/Cory – there will be a winter call for proposals
2nd round IS open – deadline is March 10th (Doug). Max is $50K/unit
o Liquor licensing
FARE – complicated, no sponsor on it, yet, will send to RCC members
McClure met with Chairman Crane; he liked the FARE approach…but was
feeling out the McClure team. Wants to protect the current license
holders.
• RCC Thursday is on Crane’s calendar, too
Pisca’s bill – they’re open to changes to it from the RCC
• Maybe by percentage growth
• Doug’s Self suggests consumer expenditure surveys/utility
hookups
o Bellevue Historical Building bill
Pessimism that it will go anywhere.
o ITD
Blake has a call into Molly McCarty & a meeting today with Senator
Den Hartog, Transportation committee
August – broaden discussion with ITD beyond ‘roundabouts’ – re:
downtown, ped-friendly improvements
Central idea is that each city would like more local control
• Legislature is off to a slow start due to all the new people.
• 10, 000 population cap
o Sandpoint and Hailey will be impacted, sooner or later, also dependent on the
current AG’s take on it. (Hailey’s current LOT goes to 2050)
o Change the population number OR put a grandfather clause in
o Recommendation is to have a ‘vehicle’ vs. a stand-alone. If nothing comes up this
session, really work hard on it over the off-season.
o Gut is that they would worry about NEW cities taking advantage rather than
letting those that already collect would continue
• Infrastructure local match – nothing yet
• Childcare funding
o Looks like it’s going – there is a lot of energy behind it (left, right and the gov’s
office)
• Areas of impact
o Lakey working on a bill to address the conflict between cities/counties in areas of
impact. Still lots of unknowns about it.
o August to share the draft. AIC is taking a supportive stance.
• Remote sales
o CO, LA and AK – only state’s allowing cities to charge local tax on remote sellers
o Emily – state tax commission is collecting state taxes from Amazon
• Consensus on who gets to participate (??)
• RCC gathering
o Room reserved for 1:30
o Monks, Moyle, Crane to drop by
o Notes from meeting to be sent to all RCC
o For 1-on-1s with legislators: send the McClure team your list
• Does the group want to receive other bills that could affect resort cities?
Will forward to Wendy and Aly for review and distribution
NO MEETING ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 27.
NOTES FROM JANUARY 26 MEETING AT CAPITOL WILL BE FORWARDED
NEXT MEETING: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022, 11:00/10:00