Help me on this one please. And the 2000 assessments won't be out until October. Expect Cannon Beach assessments to soar 10-15 percent and top the assessor's sheet. And we're simply not convinced it's up to tourists to pay for our new jail. But they've forgotten that tourism is the number one employer in the entire county.
Fishing is down, timber is down and there is little military presence here.
Lincoln City charges 6 percent and Newport 7 percent room tax. Increasing the Room Tax here only makes those other community's more competitive. Not everyone who comes to Cannon Beach is budget free. There are those who believe that if a room tax is to be raised, it needs to be spent within its own community where the ratio will be more equitable to a project. One local politician said he'd support raising the room tax if the money would be used to raise funds to build a new Cannon Beach Elementary School.