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Testimony to City Council to Opose Convention Center Expansion, June 9, 2008
Expansion to the Convention Center has been defeated twice and again the advocates have failed to justify the expansion
Testimony to City Council to Oppose
Convention Center Expansion
June 9, 2008
Alvin Rivera
Citizen
City Council Members,
What part of “No” does the Convention Center Expansion advocate group fail to understand?” I wish to remind the Council this ballot issue was defeated by the people just last year. How many bites of the “same apple” does this convention group get at taking the taxpayers money for questionable purposes?
I believe it was President John Kennedy who said if you want to know what a person can do, find out what they have done? The Urban Renewal Authority is the group overseeing the Convention Center activities and the advocate for this ballot expansion, along with the other business interests of the city, and the city developers. As a group, they never saw a development they couldn’t support. Such is the case here as well.
So, for a closer look at this proposed ballot initiative, one has to see what the track record URA has regarding the governance of the Convention Center. It is for this reason, that I have prepared the eight (8) points below to oppose any expansion of the Convention Center Ballot initiative.