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Cruise industry, tourism business figures push back against Ketchikan head tax proposal


Cruise industry, tourism business figures push back against Ketchikan head tax proposal
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 8, 2021
Tourists disembark from the Ruby Princesss at the beginning the 2015 tour season in Ketchikan. (KRBD file photo).
City officials in Ketchikan are proposing changes to the city’s per-passenger tax for cruise ship visitors. There’s been pushback from the cruise industry.
 
The proposal itself wouldn’t raise the amount fees levied on cruise passengers visiting Ketchikan. But it would tweak how the city assesses it. And that’s important. Because according to a Juneau attorney retained by the city council, it could give the city more flexibility on how it spends the millions the city usually collects when there are cruise ships in town. ....

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COUNCIL hears from Royal C.


The first hour of the regular Ketchikan City Council meeting was filled with public comment Thursday evening, with community members supporting a motion on the agenda to commission a totem pole to honor Alaska Native civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich; speaking to the council s effort to urge legislators to resume the Ocean Ranger shipboard monitoring program; and a representative from Petro Marine Services offering information about the company s pricing structure as it takes over Crowley Fuels in Southeast Alaska.
The second hour was taken up with a discussion about whether a COVID-19 program authorized under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act — the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act — should be extended for city employees through June 2021, and the first portion of a presentation about the resumption of the cruise industry in Alaska by representatives from Royal Caribbean International. ....

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