## 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