Someone just told me that the plans to rebuild Coronado High School include building a new stadium to replace the old one.
Can anyone enlighten us?
We deserve better
Brutus
Coronado High School stadium
December 1, 2016
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Wouldn’t decreasing the debt make more sense?
November 30, 2016It seems that at least one of our city council representatives thinks we have a way of getting $25 million in sales tax rebates back from the state.
EL CHUQUENO pointed out to us that in order to get the $25 million the city would have to invest in a project that was “ancillary” to a convention hotel that was within 1,000 feet of our convention center.
The city representative wants to spend the money to expand the arena. We can’t wait to hear how the arena will be declared to be ancillary to a convention hotel. That should prove to be another lesson in the kind of wordsmithing that would land a citizen in jail but somehow we allow our politicians to do.
Paying our bills
Even more remarkable is that she seems to want to use the money to make the arena bigger. That would take it from a planned amount of $180 million to $205 million. Who knows what the actual cost will turn out to be.
Some of us that pay property taxes to the city would suggest that the $25 million (if it turns out to be available) be used pay down the arena cost.
We deserve better
Brutus
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EPISD lack of basic supplies
November 29, 2016This came in from a frustrated teacher some time ago and we posting it on a timely basis:
I’ve received one of these laminated tag board color advertisements at least every day last week and this week. Who is paying for this? It’s a great reminder to vote no. I am a teacher and have had no ink to print since school started but get these in the mail. BS
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Brutus
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Undesirable neighbor
November 28, 2016The railroad/city story continues to get worse.
An article in the Times recently told us that the railroad maintains that the city never “filled out a form” or scheduled a meeting with the railroad to discuss the land sale.
It’s hard to understand how the city can object to the form–after all they make us sign up just to speak to city council.
According to the article the city never told the railroad what they wanted the land for. The city attorney was quoted as saying “The end use does not matter–terms of the sale were the same”.
Baloney
Anyone with half of a brain knows that if you are going to sell land and thus create a next door neighbor you will find it important to know what the land will be used for.
Proof
One of the west side city representatives evidently said that the city has recordings and emails that prove the city did reach out to the railroad.
The city is saying is that they need time to compile the records.
If the city representative has identified the recordings and emails it seems to us that those records could be released immediately.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Experts at misleading
November 27, 2016Our city representatives are once more calling on city staff to be more open.
So are we.
Unless some heads are knocked together we probably will continue to see deliberate obfuscation as their modus operandi.
We deserve better
Brutus
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