Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Bravo! No more Tourist Taxes!
Thank you for your E-mail...The reality is there is no tourist tax available..The financial statements for the Tourist tax are public record, as are all the financial commitments going forward the next 25 years..there simply is no money available to fund another project like this. .plain and simple..
Any economic downturn, which is very likely at some point in the future as history has shown, would severely jeopardize our ability to market Palm Beach County as a tourist destination competitively throughout the US and the internationally..The hospitality -Tourism industry in PBC employs over 86,000 people, far and away our #1 provider of jobs ...certainly not worth risking that economic driver for a third baseball stadium in the county that is utilized the 6 busiest weeks of the tourist season, mid February thru March when all the hotels are running their highest occupancy rates already.
Less than 1% of all the annual room nights into PB County are generated from Spring Training...
Not sure why some( not all) of the commissioners continue to entertain fantasies of being the spring training capital of the world..and think the tourist tax is an unlimited source of funds that their constituents don't have to pay...
This one should be dead at least and the BCC will realize it soon enough..at least in regards to funding from bed tax dollars. .Now they have a way to turn it down and not look like they are against baseball...which is fine....that's the way the game is played unfortunately..
have a great weekend..
dave
David Burke
Executive VP, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
The Breakers Palm Beach
One South County Road
Palm Beach, Fl 33480
maybe they'll spend their own money?
ReplyDeleteVote NO on the one cent tax increase. It won't go to roads or infrastructure. It will go to the Braves owners,,,,,,,
ReplyDeleteOur Commissioners and our downtown businesses have shot themselves in the foot. They have created bad feelings AGAIN for the pipe dream of "play Ball" being some kind of golden goose for them. Who in the heck would have even come to lake Worth? Mom,Pop and the kiddies (more likely Grandpap and Mawmaw)would have paid to park, paid to watch the game.Paid for beer and hotdogs from the stadium and GONE HOME ! Traffic would actually have REDUCED access to Lake Worth businesses! I .a LOCAL, will NEVER step foot again into ANY business now displaying the Braves sign in their window.
ReplyDeleteSo well said, and thanks again for pulling back the dark haze of smoke and mirrors these commissioners are using to cloud the issues. Mainly that:
ReplyDelete1. A deed doesn't matter and can be torn up at will for a price.
2. The insane belief that destroying a wonderfully used park will benefit tourism.
3. That there will be an economic benefit.
4. That you aren't again financing pipe dreams on the backs of already
strapped taxpayers.
5. That commissioners have the right to act with blatant financial irresponsibility if it benefits powerful outside interests at the expense of the citizens who vote for them i.e. "creative financing."
SAY NO TO THE BRAVES! THE KIDS NEED A PARK WHERE THEY CAN PLAY !
ReplyDeleteSAY NO TO THE BRAVES ! THE KIDS NEED A PARK WHERE THEY CAN PLAY !
SAY NO TO THE BRAVES ! THE KIDS NEED A PARK WHERE THEY CAN PLAY!
All these commissioners should be booted out. I have no idea what happened in Lake Wroth other than Maxwell calling in his armed division of big money and special interests. They even got money from convicted creeps and someone wanting to steal our beach.
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