As expected, it looks like the Kriseman
Administration is about to attempt yet another Hail Mary in the continuing saga
of the new St. Pete Pier.
On Thursday's Council agenda is the new Pier Park
design for approval, the construction manager contract for approval and the
Pier demolition contract for approval.
None of these items has been seen by the public,
there has been no formal presentation for public information or comment, the
City's New Pier Web site has not been updated since May and my guess is Council
will get final details as late as Kriseman and Connors think they can get away
with.
What does the "in budget" Pier Park really
look like?
Where are the renderings so the public and the
Committee that so aptly recommended this design could compare reality with the
BS they were sold?
Will the County issue the needed permits?
Will the State issue the needed permits? Not Just
Connors saying so has the state seen the new design?
What about the bond issue? How much? When? Who?
Why the rush?
If it's so the Mayor can have Pier Park as a second
term campaign bragging point, believe it when I say by the time Kriseman thinks
about running for a second term the Pier will be the last thing he wants to
talk about.
No, the rush is all about getting ahead of a
potential referendum. Hold the defrocked Pier Park design details as long as
possible, get the Pier demo started before the referendum so the outcome cannot
affect the Pier which will lower turnout and improve the chance the referendum
may fail.
Back City Council into a corner with a bunch of
hyped up claims that if they don't move now, some great calamity may happen,
like a referendum.
Somebody in the Kriseman administration needs to
explain why they don't want the people to have a voice. And don't give me, or
the public, the BS that they already had their chance. Not on this version of
the design.
City Council must also consider they are being
hustled into spending almost $50 million for something a majority of the people
don't want.
There is no rush. Let's put the final design on the
table and let everyone have some time to look it over and comment. Who knows?
Maybe of couple of tweaks and everyone's view might change.
For now Mike Connors is going to back a truck up the
Council dais and dump a load of crap backed up by his folksy rhetoric and
thinly veiled threats if action is not taken now.
There is little honor and no shame in the Kriseman
administration. They manipulated the Pier process and the Selection Committee
and now they will try to manipulate the City Council.
Council should table this whole package, hold a couple of public comment sessions and give the
public some time to weigh in.
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