Re: [Mpls] Neiman Sports Complex Stats

[Elizabeth Wielinski]

  My stats were not listed to prove that we should never have built the 
Neiman complex or that rec sports are a scourge on the planet.  The 
problem I keep trying to point out is that the projects the MPRB 
undertakes are poorly planned, have few or no guidelines, cost overruns 
galore and no plan for continued maintenance and in the case of Neiman 
lack of marketing to fill up all those fields.  If there were plans,  
they were poorly conceived and grossly mismanaged.  This is why the 
MPRB ought to stay out most  "business enterprise" functions.  Take the 
lack of coverage for the FORT complex.  No sane business person would 
have left themselves open for a $ 2.5 million hit because they had a 
tenant that didn't pay their contractors.  Shouldn't there have been 
something in the lease that required the tenant to have their own 
insurance for this.  If Mr. Rice or whomever negotiated the contract 
was working for IBM and they took the hit he might be looking for a new 
employer at this point.  If  someone on the MPRB staff is the 
responsible party they should be pounding the pavement.

    The headquarters priced at $4.2 million and now past $6 million and 
climbing due to the police move is another example.  There never seems 
to be any consequence to anyone if costs are underestimated, or if  the 
plan was flawed.  The real world doesn't work that way and just like 
everyone else they have to be responsive to stockholder complaints, and 
the public is the stockholder.  Since I can't pull out my money and 
take a tax write off for the loss I am going to be around pointing out 
this "fault" until we elect a Board that does the job.

Liz Wielinski
Columbia Park
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