ORLA OUTCOMES: Accomplishing More Together
Together, we have achieved much to sustain our industry. With so many ongoing challenges impacting the hospitality industry, it's important for us to showcase what we have done together to improve, protect and promote our industry. Here are a few recent highlights:
- Shot down local health inspection fee increases in Multnomah County
- Blocked local meals taxes in Hood River, Jacksonville and Newport
- Engaged members to successfully stop a fifty-cent surcharge on distilled liquor
- Strengthened short-term rental enforcement and tax collection
- Successfully stopped statewide beer and wine tax
- Audited 10+ local governments via public record requests to hold them (and electeds) accountable for how they spend industry tax dollars
- Launched new software to help our members keep up with ongoing changes in market rate compensation
- Helped eliminate the one party supermajority in Salem
- Developed a new training module to provide a whole new array of video training suites for ORLA members and teammates
- Won lawsuit and defended local lodging taxes in Central Oregon (Oregon Court Of Appeals – August 11, 2021)
- Secured Unemployment Insurance Tax Reforms statewide (House Bill 3389)
- Connected members with millions in Employee Retention Tax Credits