Section 41.003 of the Election Code permitted only propositions for certain matters to be included at a November election in even-numbered years, but the 1997 Legislature repealed that section of the law. I am a city administrator. We give our hotel occupancy tax revenue to the chamber of commerce to use on the city's behalf. The chamber wants to use the funds to pay salaries. However, accounting for the use of the revenues is not as simple as that.
State law permits hotel occupancy tax revenue to be used only for specific purposes.
In this case, the chamber can fund only half of the employee's salary with hotel tax revenues. The other half of the employee's salary would have to be funded through other sources. This scenario can become more complicated with additional employees. If the workload is sufficient, it's easier to assign one employee full-time to convention coordination. The best advice we can give is to keep a good account of the amount of time all the employees spend on the specific purposes that the law allows and budget for this amount of salaries to be paid with hotel tax revenues.