Should Hotel Tax Be Approved?

Langley Advance Matthew Claxton reports that after much confusion the hotel tax was considered approved. Yet posted herein is a letter from one of the 9 hotel owners who says he was unable to attend but registered his vote against the tax. If he was one of the two not counted in the vote that would mean a tie vote. So why is a tie vote a defeat vote everywhere else except on this issue? Even if the township council has a tie vote it is a defeat vote. Why not here?