Q&A
Timeline for researching other municipalities' hotel licensing practices
0:59:10
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Council Member Farías inquires about DCWP's timeline for researching hotel licensing practices in other municipalities and providing feedback to the council. Carlos Ortiz from DCWP responds with their plans and current progress.
- DCWP has not yet deeply researched other municipalities' hotel licensing practices
- Ortiz commits to engaging in this research as soon as possible and sharing feedback by the end of the month
- DCWP has done some immediate research into standards mentioned in the bill in other municipalities
- Ortiz offers to share their findings from this initial research in the near term
Amanda Farías
0:59:10
Okay.
0:59:10
Thank you, chair, for the additional time.
0:59:16
Okay.
0:59:16
Ask my tourism question.
0:59:18
Just some questions around licensing.
0:59:20
I'm I'm sure you folks are familiar.
0:59:22
I created a TLC license fee just last year.
0:59:25
And it took us a long time to get to a place that we were happy with that.
0:59:31
I heard you during your responses to the chair on engaging with other municipalities regarding a I wanted to know if there was any timeline of what your ideal timeline is in terms of looking at other municipalities that have licensing in this sector and when you expect to give feedback to the council.
Carlos Ortiz
0:59:52
I I think that's I think that question's on me.
0:59:55
I think I've just been waiting to get to today, but I'm it's something that I wanna engage in as soon as possible, and I'm happy to share any any feedback I get, you know, certainly by the end of the month.
Amanda Farías
1:00:06
Okay.
1:00:07
Think that's important for us to know that you folks have not necessarily looked into it too deeply and are hoping to continuously engage on that.
Carlos Ortiz
1:00:15
Yeah.
1:00:15
And I think I could also share the more the more immediate term we have done without speaking with folks.
1:00:20
We had done some research into some of the standards in the bill in other in other municipality.
1:00:27
So I think we can share that in the near term as well.
Amanda Farías
1:00:29
Okay.
