Taft City Councilman Josh Bryant asked for an accounting of all the money the city has given to the Taft Chamber of Commerce for the past five years.
The city has been donating a portion of the transient occupancy tax to the chamber since September of 2008.
The transient occupancy tax, also called TOT or bed tax, is a 10 percent tax collected by hotels and motels for short-term bed rentals…