Consider... $120,000 corporate gift to fund a position without a competitive advertisement $11 million on top of $30 million? tax diversion to Target Corp $30 million wealthfare subsidy to Steven Spielberg subsidized high end market housing with no affordable component two NRP neighborhood groups crash and burn causing great expense to taxpayers a media promoted graffiti program that never happened a city attorney who fails to charge and prosecute obvious instances of racial profiling an airport drowning it's citizens in noise an lrt project completely out of cost projections a huge internal deficit a huge external deficit a traffic nightmare downtown elaborate police spending on conventions promoted by the city a subsidy war between to arenas crumbling public works infrastructure in the neighborhoods a huge tax subsidy for 50th and France (I can't help, but laugh when I write this one.) a target to eliminate neighborhood services at Hi-Lake a decrease in affordable housing garbage overflowing public containers an unclear MCDA/Neighborhood process for new development To be completely fair there are some positives: Midtown Greenway with YWCA wetlands restoration to clean up some lakes Improvement along the river downtown some commercial node improvements some additional housing and improvements to existing However, the positives just can't compare to the massive trend cited by the out of touch nature of the first list. And I'm as just to blame, I voted all those people into office. I guess I will be more careful next time ;-) Russ Peterson Ward 9 Standish R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N "You can only fly if you stretch your wings." 3857 23rd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407 612-724-2331 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID Founder
