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The increase was approved in a vote of 16 to 1, with one member abstaining

The Kent County Commission will vote on increasing the lodging tax and how best to allocate it at a future Board of Commissioners meeting

The increases are driven by goods and services price increases and competitive wage and benefit increases. The property tax millage rate will fall by 0.1%.

Crain’s Grand Rapids Business senior writer Mark Sanchez talks about a report card grading area hospitals. Kent County voters will decide a lodging tax funding transformational projects. But first, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation has come to a close.

The signing of the amended accommodations tax Act allows Kent County to raise the maximum lodging excise tax from 5% to 8%. Kent County voters will need to approve it

In October 2023, two Michigan House Lodging tax bills were introduced that would allow for local and county governments to increase the tax rate on hotel/motel stays. Months have passed, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer has yet to sign off on the measures that would face voter approval. WGVU’s Patrick Center spoke with Josh Lunger. He’s vice president of government affairs with the Grand Rapids Chamber. He tells us he’s optimistic there will be a resolution.

Kent County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to release millions of dollars in public funding supporting construction of Acrisure Amphitheater.

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One of two bills that would raise money for Grand Rapids’ riverfront amphitheater and proposed soccer stadium has passed the Michigan House.