Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues and Collections (26-393A)
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Responses to Questions from the Committee on Finance during December 9, 2025 Meeting regarding Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues, Penalties, Interest and Collections [City Controller’s Office]
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Audit affordability terms before Stemmons Freeway tax deal vote
Why now: As of February 3, 2026, matter 26-393A appeared twice before the Finance Committee in Draft status with no vote taken on $16,837,803 in foregone general fund revenue under a 75-year Dallas Public Facility Corporation lease at 6950 North Stemmons Freeway.
What to do: Pull the Good Homes Dallas affordability schedule and confirm the income-targeting mix satisfies Texas Local Government Code Chapter 303 conditions before the Finance Committee schedules a third hearing — two Draft-status appearances with no vote signals that legal sufficiency questions remain unresolved, and a challenge by an affected taxing entity after a vote is far more costly to defend than correcting the record now.
Act before: After Finance Committee votes on Good Homes Dallas
Request Finance Committee memos on Stemmons Freeway housing deal
Why now: Matter 26-393A appeared twice in Draft status before the Finance Committee with no vote taken, indicating unresolved substantive objections to the 75-year lease and the $16,837,803 foregone revenue calculation at 6950 North Stemmons Freeway.
What to do: Request the staff memo and any written committee questions from the January 26 and February 3, 2026 Finance Committee hearings on Good Homes Dallas — whatever objection has blocked a vote twice is precisely what your deal team must resolve before presenting a comparable Dallas Public Facility Corporation mixed-income structure to this committee.
Act before: After Finance Committee votes on Good Homes Dallas
Investigate misclassified Stemmons Freeway housing tax exemption
Why now: Matter 26-393A, covering a 75-year Dallas Public Facility Corporation lease at 6950 North Stemmons Freeway, appeared on the Finance Committee agenda on January 26 and February 3, 2026, both times in Draft status with no vote and misclassified under hotel occupancy tax rather than property tax exemption.
What to do: File a Public Information Act request for the staff memo and written committee questions from both Finance Committee hearings on Good Homes Dallas, and specifically ask city staff why a $16.8 million property tax exemption on a mixed-income residential development is classified under 'Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues and Collections' — the title mismatch combined with two Draft-status appearances and no vote is the story.
Act before: After records request response (typically 10 business days)
Identify Finance Committee holdouts blocking Stemmons housing vote
Why now: Matter 26-393A appeared before the Finance Committee on January 26 and February 3, 2026, both in Draft status with no vote — a two-appearance stall that signals specific, unresolved member objections to the Good Homes Dallas structure.
What to do: Determine which Finance Committee members are driving unresolved objections to Good Homes Dallas and address their specific concern — whether it is the affordability mix, the 75-year lease duration, or the $16.8 million revenue calculation — before the matter returns for a third hearing, when a third Draft-status appearance will make the deal appear politically untouchable.
Act before: After Finance Committee votes on Good Homes Dallas
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Responses to Questions from the Committee on Finance during December 9, 2025 Meeting regarding Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues, Penalties, Interest and Collections [City Controller’s Office]
Responses to Questions from the Committee on Finance during December 9, 2025 Meeting regarding Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues, Penalties, Interest and Collections [City Controller’s Office]