From my perspective, I have to ask this council, “How can any taxpayer have any faith in your decisions regarding developer’s fees?” Bad decisions made in the past are the reasons we have deteriorating streets, why we have lost over 100 police and fire positions, and why home owners are being brutalized by Mello Roos fees. Both the city and the school systems have grossly mismanaged developer fees and bond issues. I have great empathy with the local development community. Many of my best friends are developers. We all want better roads, better safety and better schools. We are all being cheated by the decisions our city council and school boards have made over the last 25 years. It looks to us that our elected “leaders” are really easy to snooker….. It is time to stop experimenting, and time to stop the sophomoric comments. Get the job done on a reasonable basis. That means real world pricing and real world projections. Stop waltzing through a dreamland of incorrect assumptions. Hold your bureaucrat’s feet to the fire and make them answer questions. Do your own research, know the facts, stop simply occupying a chair and voting the way you are told. If you, the council, continue to take the bureaucrat’s story at face value, you simply have not learned from the past. In that case, it would be good for you to go. Dave |
