Thursday, September 1, 2011

Vancouver Stadium Admission Tax Gets Hearing

The folks in Clark County are pushing forward with their baseball proposal, holding a public hearing on the admissions tax that will be used to fund the new stadium, according to this article in the Columbian Newspaper. The hearing will be held at the regular county commissioners' meeting on Tuesday, September 20.  According to the article, the Yakima Bears have exclusive negotiating rights to the entire Portland/Vancouver area, but those rights expire in three weeks unless progress is made.  If the commissioners approve an admissions tax, that would be enough to retain the rights.

It sounds like even with the admissions tax, there could be a 30 percent funding shortfall.  So more work would be needed.

Although some people have speculated that a team in Vancouver would have territorial rights that would prevent Milwaukie from obtaining a team too, this is the first time I've seen that in print.  It will be interesting to see what, if any, response Milwaukie makes to up the ante.

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