Pueblog USa
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
No Justification of Convention Center Expansion
This is the third year the expansion of the Convention Center will have been placed on the ballot and still no varifiable justification.
June 20, 2008
Mike Tedesco, Executive Director
Urban Renewal Authority (URA) of Pueblo
126 N. Mechanic Street
Pueblo, CO 81003
Re: Justification of Convention Center Expansion
Dear Mr. Tedesco,
The Pueblo Citizens for Positive Change (PCPC) has requested verifiable lost business reports and booked business reports on a number of occasions. The first responses from the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) indicated that the information was proprietary and not available to the public(Oct. 12,2007, Nov. 19, 2007, Nov.21,2007). More recently several more requests were presented to the URA for verifiable lost business information (Jan.16, 2008, Feb.7, 2008, Mar.5,2008) This time the URA responded with a list of 110 mixed type of events which you claim were not held at the Convention Center for the following reason: No Space available on requested day and time. Since the report is missing the verifiable information requested to document your claim for expansion, we question the premise in which you make such false claims. Consequently, unless other information exists that you have not yet provided, the lost business report supplied does not and should not be used to justify the Convention Expansion.