Once more the ghost of illusion has risen from the grave where it was buried….I thought. The civic center has once again hit the news, that along with the mention of an $80,0000.00 feasibility study for something everyone living here already knows will not work. If this is about Bookmeyer’s legacy, his legacy is already been written on the side of a beer truck; and nothing will erase it. You want to know why? Because he himself wrote it there in big letters that are easy to read.
Now they have re-named this hooker to fool you; it is now called “The Sports and Entertainment Center,” let me tell you something. If you take a hooker and clean her up, put her into a pair of penny loafers and a pleated skirt with a barrett in her hair….she’s still a hooker only dressed differently.
Sixty five thousand to move a desk in city hall, eighty thousand more for a feasibility study….did we have a “stacked” panel recently who gave it a yes vote? If Bookmeyer’s wife would sign committal papers all of this would slow down.
Well once again I blame this train wreck on those who didn’t vote. Now we got a entire council who is in lock step with ineptness; blind to reality, driven by special interest and willing to commit this city into a long term debt they cannot pay.
Look West to the All Events Center, once also known as The North Iowa Fair. That is exactly where this city is headed until the next election where once more no one will vote. Now there is a lawsuit file against the Fair Board, an action that could turn into a prime time drama played out in the courts that will eclipse anything on television.
We will end up spending enough money on useless studies as the result of too many hangovers that could have been used to build a alcohol recovery unit that could actually help some people who need it.
By the look of it we have a North end section of this city where it is becoming unsafe to venture outside at night; why should that be? Ido not believe in a police state form of control but stronger measures need to be put in place to bring this area under control. Spend the eighty thousand on that area in overtime for law enforcement to maintain a more constant vigilance. Give the money to hire more people to help clean up the neighborhoods. No none of that will happen, instead it will go down the drain in one of the many urinals Bookmeyer frequents.
