Dear Emmett Carson,
I am a businessman on West Broadway. I am also a volunteer Board Member of the WBAC; The West Broadway Area Coalition. There is a quickening of events now on West Broadway, and frankly, the meager planning budget has not kept up with need, nor implementation.
It was reported that the Honorable CM Don Samuels quietly received a check for 300K from the Target Corporation and deposited it with your agency, The Mpls. Foundation. A check that was to be dedicated to "planning" on West Broadway yet is now disappeared, while some unknown people, reportedly keeping "below the radar" , plan how to spend it. I am concerned they may spend it on themselves instead of our Avenue. Reminder: I am a volunteer, Emmett.
The WBAC is the appropriate venue for utilizing planning money for the Highest public interests of our Avenue. I will explain.
I wish to refer you to an article I wrote and addressed to West Broadway stakeholders. Please look it over closely as you are now a stakeholder. I will not include the additional City pages article for you because I will presume you have already read it. When you finish my article please take the appropriate step of reaching our WBAC Executive Director.
And bring the money, Emmett, for the sake of our "Avenue with the Most Potential, West Broadway".
Dennis Plante responds:
First-off, by placing the funds in the care of a philanthropic entity, I strongly suspect that Don's intentions are to make sure that the funds are expended for what they are intended for - planning the redevelopment of W Broadway. It'd be fairly tough for them to spend it on themselves, whereas he, nor the others that "are attempting to remain below the radar", no longer have signatory authority over the funds...
Maybe more relevant questions at this point in time might be - why should the WBAC get the money????? Who is the WBAC? How is it currently funded? Who sits on the board? How many of the effected communities have a voice on the board?
Before we cast insinuations in the direction of CM Samuels for placing the funds (in effect) in a "trust", maybe we should find-out who exactly submitted proposals to TARGET for the monies that CM Samuels so astutely was able to obtain for our community.
Dennis Plante Jordan
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