Support for the project seems to be eroding. Before casting his yes vote, Alderman Bart Delaney (Fifth Ward) said he was doing so because he wanted to see the new design based on the recommendations of the value engineering, and Alderman Rick Rector (First Ward) said he was voting yes "with lots of reservations." Alderman Henry Haddad (Third Ward), however, prefaced his yes vote by reminding his colleagues that, if the Council were to abandon this plan, OCA (Office of Court Administration) would build a facility for the court only, at the City's expense, which would not accommodate the police department and was certain to cost more than the project currently proposed, and the City would not be able to offset any of the expense with the sale of the current police and court buildings on Warren Street.
The aldermen voting against the resolution were Donahue, Tiffany Garriga (Second Ward), Alexis Keith (Fourth Ward), and Abdus Miah (Second Ward). Voting in favor of it, in addition to Delaney, Rector, and Henry Haddad, were Council president Don Moore and aldermen John Friedman (Third Ward) and Nick Haddad (First Ward). Alderman Ohrine Stewart (Fourth Ward) was absent from the meeting.
To be continued . . .
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Its far more important to gift pretender to the throne Galloway $100K - as King Scalera paves the way - for his successors coronation.
ReplyDeleteWe must all bow
to an indecipherable
mix of
blurred perception
and distorted
interpretation
If it was a business, you'd be dumbfounded to explain how the Common Council survived this long. (On subsidies of course: wasted local, state, and federal tax revenues.)
ReplyDeleteMistaking themselves as managers rather than representatives, council members lurch forward on the merest understanding of issues. Satisfied with whatever plausible-sounding explanation is nearest at hand (see: Corporate Counsel), they rapidly move from one Resolution they can't grasp to the next, confident they'll never be held to account.
The rate and terms of our Great Progress is set by the city's central self-styled manager/director, Mr. Moore, of whom it is accepted by all that he advances the agendas of special interests at the expense of anyone who gets in his way.
In the immediate story - the proposed court and police building - the emerging portrait of incompetence and pomposity begs for a timeline, to know exactly how the sausage got made, at what rate, by whom, and at what expense (the latter is in progress, but it's well worth a running tally).
Will we ever learn that throwing good money after bad can't fix personnel problems?
In the wild, the Common Council, that echo chamber of incompetence, would have become extinct eons ago.
The electorate is rarely as smart as nature, but let's try a thought experiment.
If you see an incompetent running unopposed this November, you don't have to vote for them! Send a message by withholding your vote: YOU ARE INCOMPETENT.
Let's rehearse that as a kind of counter-campaign, though I doubt there's any cure for the arrogance of politicians.