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- 24:37Yeah. Uh still working on retirement gold standard. Uh I did get an email from PGA Keeler this week saying that Airbnb did in fact confirm to him that they are paying back the guests that paid the uh city tax when they weren't supposed to. Um so that's good. That seems like that's resolved now. Um, got a meeting next week on this integrated online payment system. So, I'm …
- 15:10… investment vehicle and the advantage of it but just purchased and never anything done with it not purchased to rent out not purchased for Airbnb there is a [clears throat] something that's happening I think it's happening all over the country where either funds or corporations are buying it for reasons I don't completely understand. Can you do you are you familiar with that …
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- 2026-07-08County Board of SupervisorsSpecials || Full Board || July 8, 202610 passages longer discussion8:13Oh um I Silverird from Gison. Um, my town clerks asked about the Airbnb um tax money when that was coming in. [clears throat]
- 5:10Okay. So, basically, if you go to the third page under other operational one, two, three, four, three bullets down. So, basically, as we all know, Columbia County signed a deal with Airbnb for Airbnb to collect and remit back to them their lodging tax.
- 29:08that that you know if you're having uh an S STR on on the property you have to be residing on the same law right so we confirmed that I didn't want it to be a total you know a rental situation where you have two short-term rental properties that somebody that doesn't even live your rents out and it it it can't be it can't that's not permed yeah the other thing that I wanted to …
- 2024-08-07Council Legal CommitteeLegal Committee 20240807 224249 Meeting Recording 17 passages longer discussion40:15the most first and foremost all as defined by the new state all short-term rentals will have to be registered with the state and their definition of short-term rental includes renting of a room in one's home uh we do not Define it that way the our definition of a short-term man unit requires that the unit have a separate entrance so there's just in the basic definition of …
- 36:24… i don't think we've gotten revenue from either of since yet council members yeah um me being heather i've had a couple questions with the short-term rentals um i saw the listing went up uh for a bookkeeping clerical position um it's great that emma's been super short staff so it's great that um you'll be getting some help um i'm just wondering if that bookkeeping position will …
- 44:55last question um is your department or any department in the city um enforcing this the short-term rental rules like making sure that some airbnbs are paying their way is that actively being done i would say that it is not um overly actively being done at least by my office just because of our complete lack of bandwidth so if you had bandwidth it would be your department it …
- 21:29So that the requirement that short-term rentals are permitted to operate within the city of Hudson and this is kind of applies both to people who are have a short-term rental on their property and also folks who are renting out their home for up to 60 days uh in any of the following circumstances and then that the law lays out the various circumstances provided that all such …
- 0:44Um so we have just two items on the agenda this evening. Uh the first is relating to the short-term rental law I put up here. So uh this is a very narrow issue. Um, personally I am very much in favor of regulation of short-term rentals and before I was on the council submitted many proposals to the council at that time on how to regulate in such a manner that neighborhoods are …
- 6:36Column, we said you were here. So, the first item I want to talk about is short-term rental. Uh, this is an issue that came up at finance and I sent you the section of code that we're talking about. Um, so currently in the code, any person uh who owns a dwelling uh unit in the city of Hudson and resides in it at least 50 days a year may operate it as a short-term rental unit …
- 34:58uh I put STR strs on just so that we wouldn't lose track of that um I think we can have that as a topic with some uh documentation like we had already in one of our last meetings we looked at the current code with current penalties and so forth and I have met with um with Michelle on some of this moment I think the last count we have 69 Str strs i7 sorry 67 now okay that is …
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- 1:58:08that, we do understand that, right? John, help me out, John, help me out, STR and legislation, five years on the legislation, right? No, not five years, a year and a half. Year and a half, so a year and a half, so think about this, so you said something about, did you say Airbnb's or B&B's, I apologize. No, Airbnb, that's short-term, short-term, I know exactly what they are, …
- 3:18:20… people from out of town finding nice places, cheap places for them to stay. So, but it's not going to be operated as a, it won't be on Airbnb or otherwise commercially rented out. Is that, do we have a plan for that level? That's a little unclear to me.
- 24:37Yeah. Uh still working on retirement gold standard. Uh I did get an email from PGA Keeler this week saying that Airbnb did in fact confirm to him that they are paying back the guests that paid the uh city tax when they weren't supposed to. Um so that's good. That seems like that's resolved now. Um, got a meeting next week on this integrated online payment system. So, I'm …
- 15:10… investment vehicle and the advantage of it but just purchased and never anything done with it not purchased to rent out not purchased for Airbnb there is a [clears throat] something that's happening I think it's happening all over the country where either funds or corporations are buying it for reasons I don't completely understand. Can you do you are you familiar with that …
- 2026-08-26County Finance CommitteeTobacco Securitization || Finance || August 26, 2026 HD 720p1 passage19:55Opposed. Carried. Finance resolution number 63. Authorization to renew a contract with Granicus for short-term rental identification and compliance monitoring and tax collection. We have a motion.
- 11:03One is Um if you remember there was a big brouhaha you had for some discussions about Airbnb charging the county lodging tax within the city limits. They have finally rectified that as of July 1st and we have been told that they Airbnb will take the proactive responsibility to reimburse anybody that paid that tax erroneously. So neither the county nor the city has to be …
- 40:12… um at least in in Sag Harbor and another town I remember um was a certain percent um and I think it exists in Hudson now of um the Airbnb issue and all that but this this would be really taking trying to leverage some of the um neglected utility alley dwelling units which are if you walk any of the alleys they're falling you know people just demolition by neglect and really …
- 58:54The short-term rentals had taken over
- 2026-07-08County Board of SupervisorsSpecials || Full Board || July 8, 202610 passages longer discussion8:13Oh um I Silverird from Gison. Um, my town clerks asked about the Airbnb um tax money when that was coming in. [clears throat]
- 5:10Okay. So, basically, if you go to the third page under other operational one, two, three, four, three bullets down. So, basically, as we all know, Columbia County signed a deal with Airbnb for Airbnb to collect and remit back to them their lodging tax.
- 14:45I I liken it to the uh the short-term rental law right where if you if if it's owner occupied um it's one thing if it's owner occupied it's a completely different thing in terms of how many days you can rent your your house out for the Right.
- 57:21you had a hand up on Okay, okay, go ahead. Okay, moving on to the next item on the agenda in all of business. Um the short-term rental amendment which is very small just said that everybody has to have a local contract because that is part of the uh zoning section of the code that has to go to the local uh planning board, the city planning board. have done that. Uh they will …
- 2026-06-10County Board of SupervisorsWellness Hub Presentation || Full Board Meeting || June 10, 20261 passage4:50know, have proposed emergency housing, 28 units, permanent supportive housing, 35 units, and then something called a STR, um, short-term temporary housing, very intensive housing, 120 days, a lot of services by a company called Gateway. The long story short here is um I decided at the Greenberger Center that we would not be leasing lands to them for various reasons. Um and so …
- 50:37… of mass gathering permits should kind of known this would have been um a misstep. And the the Henry, the analog to this is if you are uh a short-term rental person and you are let's say you are you fall into the category of people who are renting out their home.
- 57:45They are not, this is not new to them. are. And if they have reason to believe their space is going to be having an "Okay, here are the things that you need let's say, you have an Airbnb whoever is going to be renting your put the garbage out on Monday morning or the owner who is renting the facility what the local ordinances are.
- 9:08Do we know if any other interior departments rely on shape files? I know that the short-term rental occupancy tax that we rely on shape files. Do we know of any other departments relying on them?
- 1:50:49next. Um so I I need a vote on this. So uh very small little thing short-term rentals need to have a local person. Uh because this is actually in our zoning code action. We do have to send it to the county and local planning boards. uh and they have it for a month before we can um actually take action on it. So this is going to be a motion uh and second please to give for the …
- 4:54We're about like 150, but we got a little more. We got 200,000 left in there, but we haven't been increasing the funds um the way we had expected to, um partly because I think the cannabis tax and the short-term rental tax didn't bring in as much as the city thought they would.
- 4:48… left in there, but we haven't been increasing the funds um the way we had expected to. Um partly because I think the cannabis tax and the short-term rental tax didn't bring in as much as the city thought they would. Um and then I think also there's just been a lot of change in politics um since 2020 and 2021.
- 39:39The first one is the one we've talked about with the STRs and uh this Yes. So the second is um just cleaning up our video conference and we're leaving voter law and change to a resolution so that we can be more um uh you know nimble in making change law changes. So that those are now laid on. The first one is the um local operates SDR that is now laid on your desk.
- 2026-04-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || April 14, 20261 passage11:34you know to build it to build it. So, STR has their own um capital sharing architecture plus we have the same architect and we're doing for both um I hold to it a lot of numbers have been thrown out
- 14:49Um, I would like to bring this both the the the proposed limits from for from the 2026 that that Donald Str has put together. Um, I'd like to bring this to the full council because I think it would be better. it it's a matter of some significance and I think that the full council needs to evaluate number one do we want to go into clarifying the code and if so how do we want to …
- 14:44Time will tell. We signed an agreement with Airbnb. They're going to start collecting April 1, so we'll probably see that.
- 2026-03-23Council Finance CommitteeCommon Council Finance Committee 3/23/263 passages longer discussion10:21… in case any of your constituents reach out to you. Something funky is going on. Uh Columbia County apparently recently contracted with Airbnb to collect tax for them. Our STR operators started getting communications from Airbnb saying, "Hey, we're going to be collecting Columbia County lodging tax directly from you now and paying directly on your behalf." Well, that's a …
- 21:29So that the requirement that short-term rentals are permitted to operate within the city of Hudson and this is kind of applies both to people who are have a short-term rental on their property and also folks who are renting out their home for up to 60 days uh in any of the following circumstances and then that the law lays out the various circumstances provided that all such …
- 0:44Um so we have just two items on the agenda this evening. Uh the first is relating to the short-term rental law I put up here. So uh this is a very narrow issue. Um, personally I am very much in favor of regulation of short-term rentals and before I was on the council submitted many proposals to the council at that time on how to regulate in such a manner that neighborhoods are …
- 1:39:10Yes. Yeah. The public country. Um, so I'm here um to urge members of the council um not to uh consider uh changing the short-term rental legislation except to strengthen it. Current restrictions in place have the good effect of discouraging prospective investors and encouraging full-time residency.
- 30:26… uh last Thursday. Um we basically went back to some of the things that we had been working on in the last session. Um, we discussed the short-term rental rules specifically in relation to um, residents of Hudson who may be part-time who live here a minimum of 50 days a year uh, who wish to rent out their property when they are on vacation or away.
- 1:49:48uh and and maybe all the building inspectors are up to date. Mine was not and as a newer building inspector. just understanding what the process is now and under also understanding what records that you may have especially with STRs right now that's somewhat confusing. Sure,
- 2026-02-12Council Legal CommitteeCommon Council Legal Committee Meeting 2/12/264 passages longer discussion2:07Um so we have a couple of old business items. Jenny, you're familiar with these because you were on this committee last year. Um the first one is the short-term rentals. Um, so Logan, if you want to just pull up the short-term rental with the highlights.
- 51:14… got two big ones for this year that I'm helping with. One is corporate home ownership which has become a real issue especially around short-term rentals. uh mostly a little bit south of us, but we're seeing it pop up here too, especially in the city of Hudson. Uh and then the other study is uh or the other report that they're going to publish is taking a look at statewide …
- 45:46Their Airbnbs or their their STRs for lack of a better
- 35:27… of you who are on the council prior uh will recall that um we have a contract with a company that does the collection of the taxes for short-term rentals and the registration and they also provide Michelle with a monthly report on uh current registered uh short-term rentals and she goes through and then identifies any that are um advertising but are not registered.
- 8:23… be brought to committee in January to work with the county and the The county is diligently working on the issue of occupancy tax for its STRs. There are a lot of moving parts between New York State, the STR platforms, the STRs themselves, and local governments.
- 51:19rooms in Hudson right now. Uh and you know I stop at the uh at the Whaler and the Nest. Uh there are a lot of other people who advertise as hotels, but they're really Airbnbs.
- 14:54that the board had raised. Do we have uh too many hotels? This one. Yes. And you know right now I did exclude bed and breakfast uh that uh Airbnbs that advertise as hotels and you know there only I think uh one or two that you might add. You might add the nest. You might add uh
- 37:14They uh they do have a tax on Airbnbs. Uh is that correct, Chris?
- 41:50… um but also because of some of the changes we put in place we did see a pretty significant decrease in the amount of uh registered uh short-term rental folks so that's clearly impacting ing that number as well.
- 6:36Column, we said you were here. So, the first item I want to talk about is short-term rental. Uh, this is an issue that came up at finance and I sent you the section of code that we're talking about. Um, so currently in the code, any person uh who owns a dwelling uh unit in the city of Hudson and resides in it at least 50 days a year may operate it as a short-term rental unit …
- 2:22Maybe even close to double because that is not going to affect rentals. Usually people that have the SDRs, they're going to stay. They're just going to they're going to stay being STRs. It's just going to bring more money to the city. That that the extra days.