There are a lot of unanswered questions about the city's plan to build a new downtown baseball stadium, mainly how much will it cost and where will the financing come from?

The CWS Oversight Committee will only say "take each estimate you've heard, add it up and divide it up by the number of estimates you've heard." Based on that, we came up with $86 million.

How much private money would pay for this? The committee won't say.

What specifically ruled out Rosenblatt? The committee won't say.

Who's paying for the committee's cost, which is $800,000 to date?Beyond replying private donations, the committee won't say.

The reason for not saying? "It's not appropriate to go into that detail until we've had our discussions with the NCAA and received their feedback," said CWS Oversight Committee Chairman Ken Stinson.

An option on the table for stadium funding is an entertainment tax. The mayor introduced that plan in October. It would slap an extra 2% tax on prepared food and entertainment. The committee would neither confirm or deny adding the 2% tax.

"I don't think it's fair," said Cedric Fichepain, owner of the restaurant Le Voltaire. He says 2% may be a nominal figure, but it's detrimental to small business like his at 156th and Dodge.

"The bottom line is it means a lot. You might not see a big difference on the tickets, but jumping from 7% to 9%, what’s next?"

Managers at Douglas Theatres say they're enjoying a spike in ticket sales this year, but an increase in taxes could offset their operation and threaten their payroll.

“You're trying to go out and enjoy a night at the movie with your family and to have to pay more for that just to build a baseball stadium, maybe it should come out of something else," says Lexi Venticher of Douglas Theatres.

City leaders have also thrown around the idea of increasing the lodging tax of local hotels to help build the stadium. It's already 16.38%, but it could go up to 17.38%.

Hotel owners aren't thrilled if paying for the stadium includes another tax on rooms. The Metropolitan Hospitality Association says Omaha currently ranks fifth in the nation in lodging tax. To give you a better idea, if a hotel room costs $100, another $16.48 is added to the tax, or 16.48%. The association fears any increase will hurt Omaha's drawing power. Houston currently leads the nation in lodging tax at 17%.

At MECA’s meeting last week, the general manager of the Doubletree Hotel warned the city against doing that. "Omaha will be the highest hotel tax city in the United States,” said David Yakes. “In my opinion, and that opinion of the ownerships, that is not something we want our competitors to market."

The mayor could get an earful about this issue Tuesday when he's expected to appear at a luncheon of nearly 30 hotel managers at the Hilton Hotel across from the Qwest Center.