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Committee advances bill to let Salt Lake County repurpose funds for convention center rebuild
Summary
Senate Bill 306 would clarify and expand Salt Lake County’s use of existing local revenue tools and hotel mitigation funds to support rebuilding and revitalizing the downtown convention center area; the committee recommended the bill 3‑1.
Senator Daniel McKay presented Senate Bill 306 as a measure to provide Salt Lake County additional clarity and flexibility to finance parts of a convention center rebuild and the broader downtown sports, entertainment and convention district.
Lincoln Shirts, speaking on behalf of county interests and the Salt Lake County administration, told the committee the legislation is not intended to create new revenue but to provide “flexibility and clarity in their existing revenue tools” and to clean up language in prior law governing hotel mitigation funds. He said the changes would allow the…
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