Posted
6/24/2004 07:47:00 PM
by Douglas
Corrupt City Government part #48. The city's Big League Dreams project has had a pretty rough ride, and now the mayor doesn't want the necessary funding that was, ahem, "under-estimated" to come from bonds that must pass the scrutiny of a
petition.On Tuesday, Mayor Jeff Harrison told the council that bringing the project to a halt would only compound problems because the city would be left with several legal commitments and millions of dollars of improvements made to “a complex with no road, no lights and no drainage.”
“For people to sit up here and say we have an option to back out … is ridiculous,” Harrison said. “It’s past the point of no return.”
And let's not leave out this jewel from the city council:
“By postponing things we’re just simply adding dollars,” Councilwoman Katie Benoit said.
So what does this mean? It means that due to promises made by the mayor and city council, it's going to
cost more in legal fees from lawsuits from developers to
kill this project than it's going to cost to actually build this atrocity.
I just love it when my city council has my best interest at heart. Also, where's that damn petition?