Please Help Montana Basecamp Stop TIBD 50% taxation increase Public Comment from Montana BasecampMayor & City Council,
Please take up the motion to allow Montana Basecamp to give up its membership in the TIBD. We cannot withstand any increase to the TIBD fee or the existing $2 TIBD per night fee. This
fee disproportionately hurts an RV park. We struggle to achieve rates near $100 and only in July. $4 is 4% of our rate. Nothing the TBID has done in the last 5 years has brought us
ANY extra income or business. Our RV guest are completely different then a hotel guest. TIBD directs no effort towards RV guest. We should be receiving exactly 50% of the TIBD revenue
towards RV guest marketing. Our first step is to ask Kalispell City Council to allow Montana Basecamp to give up its membership in the TIBD. If we are to stay we would need the 50%
of TIBD to be directed towards RV visits . RV has no representation in the TiBD current board structure. RV needs a permanent seat on this board. Our RV angle on marketing is different
than hotel marketing. RV needs to be able to direct its 50% of the TIBD revenue as it sees fit towards the RV crowd. I need the City Councils help and the Mayor’s help. RV needs representation
and funds equal to hotel. We currently pay the State of Montana 8% tax and they already market tourism, hotel and RV.
8% + $4 is 12-20% taxation for our RV park.
Please Help Us 🤕🏔.
Andy Matthews
Montana Basecamp
1000 Basecamp Dr.
Kalispell, MT 59901
Andy@montanabasecamp.com
406-756-9999
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From: Andrew Matthews <andy@montanabasecamp.com>
Date: April 20, 2024 at 8:52:20 AM EDT
To: Diane Medler <diane@discoverkalispell.com>, Justin Breck <justin@brecklawoffice.com>, Marcy Hall <office@brecklawoffice.com>
Subject: Discover Kalispell Magazine
Diane and Board,
Hello, please consider the following for Montana Basecamp. Your current marketing has language as it purtains RV is not directed at the singular and only RV Park paying taxes to the
TBID… 1 item I will be asking for is the back cover of Discover Kalispell as our location as the only RV park in Kalispell. Please confirm what is on the back cover now and when it
is printed. I would like to make application for TBDI to fund our back cover location. I would also like your help in updating the RV/Camping sections of Discover Kalispell website.
Can you support this with me and get me in contact with or help me submit our change request? We use Glacier Journals back cover as our marketing can we also make application for TBID
to cover the cost of that marketing? Our average summer rate is less than $100. The $4 room fee will increase our tax burden to 12-20% per room night for TBID. We need to have a return
on our $ for this taxation. We will be asking City Council to let Montana Basecamp give up its Membership to the TBID.
Montana Basecamp as the sole RV park as no representation on the TBID board. We need a permanent seat on the board as the only lodging business in this category. We have received zero
reservation $s from the past TBID money we have been taxed. Let’s talk Monday.
This $4 tax is absolutely crazy, unacceptable and bad. We already pay 8% to the state of Montana.
Andy Matthews 🦅
Montana Basecamp
1000 Basecamp Dr.
Kalispell, MT 59901
Andy@montanabasecamp.com
406-756-9999