Georgia Governor Nathan Deal wants the Atlanta Falcons to agree to reshape a deal struck to build a new stadium, with an eye on reducing the public share of the project’s funding.
Falcons representatives met Friday with officials in the governor’s office to discuss reducing the state hotel-motel tax contribution, sources say. Last month, representatives of the Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center agreed to set the hotel-motel tax contribution of the billion-dollar project at $300 million.
Deal wants to lower that contribution to $200 million, which would potentially eliminate the need for legislative approval of the deal. Current law sets the GWCC’s borrowing limit on hotel-motel tax funds at $200 million.
Deal’s spokesman Brian Robinson confirmed the meeting, but would not discuss its details. A GWCC spokeswoman said the GWCC was not part of the talks.
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