Council--This week's Irony

             Ironic? If you check my Ponzi scheme blog entry after the last city council meeting, you’ll see that Nos. 11 and 12 on the agenda were TIF payments in the amount of $26,395.13 to River Bend and McDermott LLC.

         

            Nos. 11 and 12 must be the magic, ironic numbers. This week the city paid (Nos. 11 & 12) on the agenda (!) $74,000 to two companies. The lion’s share ($70,000) for a community match to Brian Bock for an IEDA (Iowa Economic Development Authority) grant for a downtown housing grant that most of the people in the neighborhood were against. For good reason—lack of parking, fire and snow removal problems building a several homes above the New City Park.

  Not to mention the predictable, incremental effects on drainage in the park, parts of which become unusable in heavy rains. But the people weren’t listened to: the only person who voted against it was Bill Hosch.  Next time it could be your neighborhood.