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Originally Posted by YOWflier
When a CIP is in place any application should be evaluated against the criteria and approved if it meets them. There should be no politicization of that process. That’s how the playing field becomes unlevel.
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Here here!
Council had two opportunities to question the merit of this CIP; when they voted in favour of it in July last year, and when they paused the brownfield grants early on during this term.
They did not pause the airport CIP, so of course the hotel submitted an application for a program they qualify for. This is 100% on Council for not pausing or killing this when they had a chance.
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Originally Posted by originalmuffins
At first, it felt like Alt was just using this as collateral and holding the project hostage, but now I see with CIP, it is a program that they are eligible for - so the politicization of this is just going to waste more city funds than not. They already agreed to a lower amount, and now there's a potential for a lawsuit to go for the full amount again. Would've been better off just accepting the reduced amount at this point. You and the others have convinced me.
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Almost kind of hope the City gets sued over this. Just too bad politicians never get penalized for dumb decisions.
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