Gardiner Resort Area District

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Greetings Gardiner Resort Area District (GRAD) Business Owners,

We hope your 2025 summer is off to a great start! This is the inaugural issue of the GRAD News. With this monthly(ish) newsletter, we hope to keep you updated on what's going on within the district throughout the year. Over the last 18 months, we conducted a series of meetings around two ballot initiatives, and heard from many of you that more regular communication would be helpful, so thank you for speaking up!

Although this first newsletter is geared toward GRAD businesses, feel free to forward it along to any community members who are interested in learning more. We will eventually combine all our communications into one newsletter for businesses, community members, and non-profits, however, to get started, we wanted to start with you in mind. If you have questions, need us to change your contact information, or if there is a topic you'd like us to include in future months, we hope you'll reach out to us at gardinerresorttax@gmail.com. We'd love to hear your ideas on what you'd like to know more about.

Thanks for joining us here!

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The GRAD Board,

Richard Parks (Chair)

Greg Dalling (Vice Chair)

Bob Fuhrmann (Secretary/Treasurer)

Beth Taylor (Director)

Bianca Klein (Director)

Barb Bush (Administrative Manager)

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June Remittances Due July 15th

This is your friendly remind to submit your remittances for the month of June!

If this is your first time remitting, we encourage all businesses to fill out the form by the 15th of the month so that Barb can send you an invoice using Quickbooks within five business days. It is a two-step process, so don't wait until the last minute! Please let Barb know if you have any questions by emailing her at: gardinerresorttax@gmail.com.

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GRAD NEWS

Two resolutions were on the recent May special district election ballots and we are happy to report that both initiatives passed!

1) GARDINER RESORT 3% RESORT TAX RENEWAL:

A resolution to renew the existing 3% resort tax for a period of 20 years

Votes For: 160

Votes Against: 49

Total Votes Cast: 209

2) GARDINER RESORT TO INCLUDE MAY OCT:

A resolution to include the months of May and October in the collection of the 3% resort tax and the 1% additional tax (beginning May of 2026). In 2025, tax collection begins June 1st and runs through September 30th.

Votes For: 126

Votes Against: 83

Total Votes Cast: 209

ELECTION STATISTICS:

Registered Voters: 597

Ballots Cast: 209

Voter Turnout: 35.01%

Many thanks to everyone who voted, attended the in-person and virtual public meetings, and shared your ideas with us in Fall/Winter 2024.

The board recently approved ordering business cards that include a QR code to the GRAD website for businesses to provide to visitors with more information regarding the taxes they are being charged. To request a starter pack of business cards, please email Barb at gardinerresorttax@gmail.com so she can get them to you soon.

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