As you may know, the city of Oklahoma City wants to raise the hotel-motel tax by two percent. The idea was to enhance the fairgrounds.

They want new buildings to replace the decaying exibit buildings, to remove both the speedway and the old stadium and to dismantle the monorail. I presume paved parking.

During the July 7 council meeting, Jerry Foshee said he wants the money to go toward improvements in our city parks.

Personally, I want the new fairgrounds. Yes. I am in favor of relocating the speedway to Draper and demolishing the old stadium to make more parking. However, I am NOT in favor of losing our monorail.

I would also like to see the Heartland Dome (remember that one, Patrick) out of the proceeds with a raise of the hotel-motel tax and a slight raise in the vehicle rental tax (already among the highest in the nation anyway) to ten percent (hotel), 15 percent for vehicle rental. Use half for the stadium project.

What do you guys think? What would you do?