The El Paso Times yesterday had an article where the City Manager was informing us that they would be moving city departments to recreation centers and the airport for some number of months while construction is finished on the buildings that they plan to move into after tearing down City Hall.
Recreation centers?
What about the people who use the recreation centers? Will the centers be available for use as before? If the answer is no we (the citizens) need to stop this nonsense now.
If the answer is yes then we have vast amounts of unused recreation center space that could be used by the public. Why is it available for offices? Are we out of money? If so, maybe we should stop buying gadgets and invest in our children.
As far as doing business with the city I guess customer service (yes they are supposed to work for us) and efficiency are out of the question with this group running our city.
They evidently knew about this disaster before the bond election but chose not to tell us. This is another example of their “two step” process whereby we do not get the whole story until after it is too late to do anything about what they are up to.
I also note that the Times continues to report the cost of the move at 30 million dollars, when the spending already totals 37 million dollars. See City Hall Relocation.
We deserve better.
Our children deserve better!
elpasospeak 
Only a naive person in the workings of this City Government and City Council would think that any potential negative information would be made public until such time it is most advantageous to the city government, and more specifically, to the people who run city government.
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Naive? That may be fair.
I still say we deserve better.
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There seems to be “no honor among thieves” when it comes to sitting on information until it is politically advantageous. Consider Courtney Niland, who obtained critical information related to the ballpark process from the Mountainstar Sports principals in a private meeting in which she was apparently the only city council member present. According to the local ABC-TV affiliate, NIland shared that information with Joyce Wilson alone in an e-mail and specifically instructed JW to not share that information with other council members for fear of a leak that might bring unwanted media and public attention to the ballpark process.
I would suggest that Niland violated her fiduciary responsibility to her colleagues and the public. Her manipulative tactics are also a strong indication that Niland considers herself an insider in the Mountainstar group, whose principals were also among the developers who largely funded her political campaign. Their business and her personal relationship with them seem to be her highest priority.
This city is increasingly being run by a handful of people whose style is to operate under a cloak of secrecy and in backroom dealings. That’s why certain projects, which might meet with resistance, become “done deals” before the public hears about them.
If members of the city council and city management are unwilling to be totally forthcoming, open and honest in their dealings with one another on important issues, taxpayers don’t stand a chance of getting the full story in a timely manner.
Where’s the “sunshine” in the Sun City?
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