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In the wake of the report by Canton, Ga.-based The Sports Force recommending the city’s Fisher Ferry property as the location for a proposed sports complex, Vicksburg’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen now have to decide how to fund the project using a special sales tax on hotel rooms and food and beverage sales. The Mississippi Legislature in 2016 approved a local and private, or special bill, allowing the city to levy “up to” a 2 percent sales tax on hotel rooms and food and beverages sold in the city with the approval of voters in a referendum, which is expected to be on the June 6 municipal general election ballot.