A plan to fund a new Spurs arena at Hemisfair will be on every Bexar County ballot when early voting begins Monday morning.
Proposition B will ask whether to use the county’s existing venue tax to help fund up to $311 million of a new arena’s construction.
It would also raise the hotel occupancy portion of the tax from 1.75% to 2%. The short-term car rental tax portion would stay flat at 5%.
A separate ballot measure, Proposition A, will ask voters about using the same venue tax increase to help fund improvements around the Frost Bank Center to pave the way for year-round, rodeo-style operations.
Though Prop B only covers a portion of the arena’s projected $1.3 billion price tag, the rest of the funding scheme relies on it passing. If the ballot measure fails, the deal as it stands wou