The Sequin Delray Beach store will have to pay its business tax this financial year, four city commissioners agreed Oct. 20.
Manager Jodi Stein had requested a reprieve from paying the $172.56 business license fee because of the road construction on Federal Highway. Sequin, which sells fashion-oriented jewelry, sits at the northwest corner of Atlantic and Southeast Fifth avenues. She also wanted a retroactive credit for the tax paid in the last financial year credited to the 2016-2017 year.
In her August letter to the city manager, Stein said her store suffered financially from “the construction projects during these past two years, resulting in irretrievable losses which have negatively impacted our revenue.”
But unlike Big Al’s Steaks, which requested a reprieve from paying its café license fee because its sidewalks were not usable for two years, Sequin customers could not enter only for a few days.
City commissioners, following the advice of the city’s Downtown Development Agency, did not want to go down that “slippery slope” when nearly everyone in the downtown was affected by the construction.
Mayor Cary Glickstein had left the meeting early.
— Jane Smith
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