"We want to discuss the impact the hotel tax has had on our business," he said.
If the measure is passed, the majority of the money for the project would come from a hotel tax.
In general, he says, cities are "sitting around 14 and 15 percent" as maximum hotel taxes.
The remaining $ 17 million is to be raised over 20 years from hotel taxes.
It would be added to the hotel taxes that many counties and cities already impose.
It is the world's highest hotel tax, a distinction that carries no honor.
The county has proposed the additional 2 percent increase in the hotel tax to raise revenue.
Winter rates are given unless otherwise noted; a hotel tax of 7.5 percent is additional.
In 1980 the city imposed its first specific hotel tax - $2 a night on rooms costing $40 or more.
The listed rack rate of $89, though, seemed high - and it didn't even include Houston's 16.25 percent hotel tax.