Today’s city council agenda has an item on it that gives a local business the use of an 86 foot long by 16 foot wide (1,376 square feet) section of the road in front of 303 North Oregon.
The property will be used to facilitate valet parking between the hours of 11 AM one day and 2 AM the next day.
The city will be paid $1,000 per year.
As a comparison, Sprint (the communications company) signed an agreement with the city allowing Sprint to bury 1,428 linear feet of fiber optic cable under city roads. The surface streets remained open to traffic.
The fee? $3,500 per year.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Follow the money. The disparity in the deals is a function of who benefits from the valet parking deal or who wanted it. My guess is that this will be used to “facilitate” valet parking for friends of Woody Hunt and Paul Foster who attend the ballgames, concerts and other events at the ballpark. How much you wanna bet?
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Oh, my mistake. Looking at a map, the valet parking might not be related to the ballpark. It’s more likely that it is to benefit Foster’s new restaurant. Gee, how could my previous comment have been so far off the mark?
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You apparently don’t get out much, so what do you care? Lol.
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Sprint got a bad deal…….
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Sprint failed to read the pay-to-play policy memo.
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These privileges are given out occasionally for an event, This appears to be a permanent giveaway to Foster’s building. More Wilsonian democracy for us,
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Meanwhile I pay a combined $11000 in property tax and personal property taxes… I thought mayor lesser was gonna keep the city manager in check……My Oscar, he’s such a bad boy..😉
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