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Hotel Tax Hike Fails at Polls

SAN JOSE-Measure F, which would have raised the city's hotel tax from 10% to 14% in order to fund a $370 million expansion of the convention center, fell just short of the two-thirds vote it needed to pass.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on November 06, 2002

SAN JOSE-The president of the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau says that supporters of expanding the city’s convention center are seriously considering another ballot measure in two years.

Measure F, which would have raised the city’s hotel tax from 10% to 14% in order to fund a $370 million expansion of the convention center, was approved by 65% of city voters Tuesday, just short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.

“When you get this close it really shows there is a lot of support for this,” says San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau President Daniel Fenton. While it is only one day after the election, supporters of expanding the convention center are already thinking about another ballot measure in two years, according to Fenton. “There is a lot of thought about it,” Fenton says.

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