This piece will contain very little about the Conference Center - Gaylan King

 

This piece will contain very little about the Conference Center; I believe it is a "dead" issue...

Apparently the FWB City Council agrees in that they passed a resolution in favor of the TDC without mentioning that proposed structure.  I wonder, since law inexorably intertwines the TDC and the Conference Center, what that could mean. Is the referendum a political ploy or have they not done their homework?

The TDC is the real rub in this issue. The more research we do into how other states and countries have managed such entities, the more we realize that our goals are reasonable and even necessary.  (See attached document)

I'm still trying to figure out why, other than the obvious reason, anyone would defend a non-elected bureaucracy with it's own carefully selected taxing district, within which it has the power to tax and spend, with little oversight.  This bureaucracy is pursuing the same goals it did TEN YEARS AGO and cannot change within itself because of the very ordinance that created it.

Bureaucracies never reform themselves. NO mission statement is so perfect that 10 years later it needs no reform. The Freedom Committee wishes to see this important County and Community function responsive to the whole of the county electorate, not a gerrymandered sub-district.  That an empire might crumble is of little importance when compared to the misguided spending it will continue to perform until stopped.

Think about it; that TDC could be doing the exact same job 100 years from now if something doesn't change the situation.  The Freedom Committee is going to do that through referendum and is only allowed to seek signatures and votes from the 13 precincts of the TDC Taxing District.

How did we ever fall for that situation?

More tomorrow!

Cheers!
Gaylan

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