Building Sierra Madre’s Sales Tax Base
The cash-strapped city of Sierra Madre should allow bed-and-breakfast inns, lure more arts and crafts stores and be more inviting to businesses to boost the community’s weak sales tax base, a City Council-appointed committee has advised.
At Tuesday’s council meeting, leaders of the 16-member Economic Development Committee said the assistant city administrator should serve as a community development director, attracting new companies and overseeing a one-stop permit process for businesses.
Council members said they will consider the ideas.
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