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VAIL – —Town of Vail voters approved a 1.5 percent lodging tax and 0.5 percent sales tax increase about 10 years ago, but would they do it again?
The taxes approved 10 years ago were specifically collected with the intent of building a conference center in town. Well, voters later decided they didn’t want to build that conference center, and the tax collections ceased.The town and voters finally agreed on a way to spend the money, which was collected from 2002 to 2005, in November — with upgrades and renovations at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail Golf Course clubhouse and Ford Park recreation fields — and the process begs the question of whether voters would want to go through it again.
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