Now that we have been told that the move of city hall is complete, a look at the city’s website let’s us see what did not get done in the move.
This is what they presented:
Note that contrary to what our former chief financial officer told us the city still wants us to think that the office is in the Wells Fargo bank building.
The city tax office is in the same bank building. If you go down there to pay your taxes don’t expect to run into any of the city council members–they are all safely tucked away in another building.
According to the chart the parks department has been moved out of the public recreation center and into the less than convenient to get to building at 801 N Texas. I don’t recall reading anything about this in the Times.
Although there was talk about moving the fire department out of the rental space they currently occupy and into the Luther/Mulligan building, that has not happened.
I won’t be surprised to learn in a year or two that the city has determined that the decentralization experiment has failed and that they need to build a new city hall where all city departments are in one building, you know–for the convenience of the public and to provide more efficiency.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Of course they will come along and try to tell us that we need a centralized City Hall, so they can buy another piece of property currently owned by one of their cronies, and essentially worthless, but it will all of a sudden then be worth millions. And, then, we’ll have to pay more millions to build a new City Hall, and then, more millions to move all the different departments into the new City Hall, and then, they’ll give away the current properties to their cronies at fire sale prices, and we’ll all be so damn happy, you just will not believe it! And, yes, the old City Hall (which wasn’t really all that old) was originally built with the idea that we need to consolidate services, and guess what? It actually worked OK! We do indeed deserve better, but until we can get the vote out, we’re stuck with a small minority of dummies choosing our city leaders.
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Wait until our property taxes increase more than 15% per year, not until then taxpayers will start demanding accountability from our city leaders.It’s just a matter of time.
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