Remember when we jumped through all those hoops to bend all the rules to give a company a $700,000 that was portrayed to be so vital? Then, to add insult to injury, they never registered a lobbyist with the City. Turns out, I got my wish. They never got their money, it seems, they didn’t need it.
This whole situation, once again, points out how ridiculous our economic development efforts are. We still don’t have a plan. The Economic Development Commission still doesn’t appear to be doing anything. (Check out their nearly identical – lack of – agendas. Oct. Nov. Dec. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June) And about the only thing that they seem to have accomplished in the past year was something completely uncontroversial. That, and refuse to take referrals from the Council. This is embarrassing. It’s easy to see why the business community gets so upset.
