[Mr Downtown]

A meeting with a state rep from Urbana is completely meaningless to anything regarding financing or planning approval. She was probably in China for other reasons (10% of U of I freshmen now come from China) and accepted a courtesy meeting with folks who are utterly clueless about how the different levels of government work in the US. I spend a lot of time trying to explain the concept of home-rule municipalities to baffled officials from China.