From Deseret News archives:
Centerville leaders voice concern over conference center expansion
In June, Davis County officials voted to raise the county's hotel-room tax by 1.25 percent. That would bring in about $240,000 a year, which would be used to pay off $10 million in sales-tax revenue bonds expected to be issued this month to expand the conference center.
The mayor and Centerville's five council members signed a letter Tuesday voicing their opposition to the plan. Concerns outlined in the letter include a belief that the "economics of the Davis Conference Center would go from bad to worse" with expansion.
They cited a 2005 Forbes magazine article that reported large conferences are less relevant than they used to be. The letter also said that "expansion of the Conference Center would be a long-term financial burden on taxpayers."
Davis commissioners disputed those accusations in a letter they drafted Wednesday in response to the Centerville letter.
"The bulk of the financing for the conference-center expansion and for operations will be paid for with revenue generated from the county's hotel transient room tax," the letter states. "This tax is generated primarily by visitors to Davis County and not the general Davis County populace."
Russell said that county tax dollars might be better used to fund a regional Performing Arts Center in Centerville.
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