Having known both Mr. Moir and Mr. Born for a number of years, I whole
heartedly concur with Ms. Becker and Ms. Berget that Patrick Born is an
outstanding choice, with whom the City will be extremely well served.
To Tim Connolly's concern about process...why keep looking for a free agent
slugger when you have one in your own backyard? You couldn't do better than
Pat Born if you looked for a hundred years, paid the high national search
fees, and the executive search commissions typical of a city hiring process.
To others concerned about Mr. Born's past CLIENTS seeking his advice on
public financing of stadiums, etc...remember it was Mr. Moir, who kept the
city out of trouble by pointing out flaws in various stadium finance deals.
Mr. Born will do so as well.
Steve Minn
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: MPLS-ISSUES digest 875
>Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2000, 6:01 PM
>
> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:51:47 -0800
> From: "Carol Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: new finance director - Attack on new Finance Director
> Message-ID: <004a01c0535d$9bd89420$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I hate to tell you guys but first off, no finance officer "brokers"
> political deals like the ones that you are talking about. No consultants
> broker those kind of deals either. Politicians broker those kind of deals.
> No staff person would get within a mile of the kind of heavy politics it
> would take to put together a deal like that.
>
> Second off, how many people on this list have been asked to work on things
> at their jobs that they didn't personally believe in but had to because it
> was there job? In finance, you work on a lot of deals and frankly at a base
> level they are all the same. Money is money whether you are selling bonds
> for libraries, stadiums, convention centers, street construction, schools.
> It is all pretty much the same on the finance end as far as selling bonds.
>
> Third, to insinuate that some hired gun was brought in to just do this one
> deal is pretty demeaning for the person who was hired. A finance director
> deals with a whole bunch of very not sexy things - CAFR preparation, state
> auditors, cash flow management, CIP development, etc, etc, etc. To
> insinuate that this guy was brought in because of one deal is just simply
> inaccurate and demeaning to someone who needs a plethora of skills to do
> this job.
>
> Fourth, if this is the Pat Born who worked on the Convention Center, I can
> attest that he was a really good smart guy who will be an asset to the City.
> I also believe that he is a resident to boot. I am looking forward to good
> things from him if he is the Pat Born I remember.
>
> Carol Becker
> Longfellow
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: new finance director
>
>
>> Actually Ann, I was talking about the Pat Born that St. Paul hired in 1999
> to
>> help try and negotiate a deal with the MN twins for a publicly funded
>> stadium. I was talking about the Pat Born who worked with Milwaukee on
> the
>> publicly funded, Miller Park and the Pat Born who worked with St. Louis on
>> the publicly funded football stadium.
>>
>> wade russell
>> longfellow
>>
>
