The art of misleading

City staff is displaying another way that they mislead council and the public.

This slide was part of a presentation made to city council on June 2, 2015:

spur1966

Notice that the art project to be placed at spur 1966 is scheduled to be completed by September 2015.

That’s good

Well actually it isn’t.

As we wrote in Blue skies under the sun, nothing but blue skies, “At the February 24, 2015 city council meeting we were told that this $500,000 project would be finished and installed at UTEP (spur 1966) in April of 2015.”

utepcloud

The presenter did not bother to tell council that the project was late.  He just reported a different completion date.  If somehow the slide was referring to a different project, then he failed to tell council anything about this one.

Maybe they need the cloud for our monsoon season.

We deserve better

Brutus

3 Responses to The art of misleading

  1. It probably makes no difference. As soon as something goes up, a citizen will call and complain to the City Manager, who will arbitrarily order it removed, and it will disappear, along with more of our tax dollars.

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  2. Unknown's avatar Reality Checker says:

    The cloud sitting up on stilts reminds me of a aerial water tank. They could have asked the artist to design and fabricate it as a water capture and and holding tank, but that would have been too practical as opposed to what it is now, which is a total waste of money.

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  3. Unknown's avatar Jerry K says:

    Things are rarely late in city hall because city staffers rarely ever commit to a deadline on anything. So you’re always on time; El Paso time.

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