A Bizaare Possibility

Thaddeus Drinkwater tells me that there is a possibility that the hotel/motel tax could suffer a major hit with the pipeline situation.

There is some word going around that Silvercreek might be the base for pipeline workers locally. 

Dominion might decide to rent the rooms there instead of other rooms in the county.  There seems to be some question in the law as to whether a mere rental property charges the hotel/motel tax.  This could hurt in two ways.


First of all, the hm tax from the rooms rented during the busy season (when temp is cold enough to dig in the ground) would correspond to the ski season.

For every room rented, there would be one less room to be rented to a tourist.  Plus, the county would lose a substantial sum from the tax paid by tourists.  It's a kind of two edged sword.  We wouldn't get the hotel/motel tax from the pipeline workers nor the tax from the skiers because the rooms would be reserved for non tax paying pipeline workers.

The only hope would be that this situation might be mitigated by local lodging in other private facilities in the county such as Marlinton Motor Inn, Marlinton Lodging, and B&Bs.  

The loss of the h/m tax could be a major loss for our library system.