TomoTherapy – last December they got a $700,000 loan from the city, but don’t seem to have a registered lobbyist.
What about .the Todd Drive project that is looking for $2M in TIF, I don’t see a registration for Landmark Gate, LLC . . . . I do see this registration of Brad Hutter for Mortensen Investment Group, LLC, but it doesn’t mention lobbying on the TIF application.
On the 700 University Project, the $3M TIF is being loaned to University Square, LLC. I don’t see any registrations for University Square, LLC, but there are 9 registrations for lobbyists for Executive Management, Inc. which I know are the same people, but I’m not sure how the average citizen is supposed to know that.
(Another funny thing I noticed on this one is that there are two lobbyists named Adam Smith for two different companies, but the way it is on the City’s website it looks like one guy named Adam Smith who is lobbying for both Executive Management and Porchlight and I’d be pretty surprised if the grantwriter for homeless programs at Porchlight is an “Associate” at Executive Management, Inc.
Where is the lobbyist that negotiated the TIF issues on the Block 89 Parking Limited Partnership deal?
While we gutted the lobbying ordinance, we did say that anyone who got more than $10,000 from the City of Madison in loans, grants or TIF funding had to register. All of these projects should fit into this category and would not be exempt. Although you can see that Union Corners and Gorman have registered on their TIF applications and that Executive Management has registered likely on behalf of University Square, LLC. It becomes a larger stretch to find someone registered on the $3M Todd Drive Landmark Gate project. The $700,000 Tomo Therapy and Block 89 Parking Limited Partnership have failed to register all together. I also can’t help wondering if anyone should have been required to register on the BioAg deal or the Hauk property deal.
I wonder if the City Attorney will be following up on these deals?
