GOLDEN — Seeing a need to finance future needs, a Golden City Council member has suggested putting a lodging-tax question before voters.
Bill Fisher, who joined the council last spring, said other metro-area cities have lodging taxes that average 3.3 percent, with Denver on the higher end at 10.75 percent.
In Golden, which currently has no lodging tax, the initiative would bring in an estimated $100,000 annually per 1 percent of tax, so a 5 percent tax would realize a half-million dollars a year.
The tax revenues could be earmarked for a local bus system to link with RTD’s West Corridor and Gold Line end-of-the-line stations at the Jefferson County government building and West 52nd Avenue and Ward Road, Fisher said.
Tonight, Fisher will present the lodging-tax idea to the City Council during its study session.
