Friday, June 08, 2012

Coffey: “This smells of the type of government that people are fed up with."

Let's look at the glass as half-full: At least they met at a local eatery (Tucker's American Favorites) and not Subway or McDonald's. That's a plus, I think, although it probably didn't occur to any of them at the time.

Given that the city seems intent on bending over backwards to appease the penniless Levee View team, perhaps they should have brown-bagged it to a chiropractor's office.

Lunch meeting over River View under scrutiny; Coffey: Benedetti, Zurschmiede should have held meeting before commission, by Daniel Suddeath (Pop Up World Digest)

... But Councilman Dan Coffey — who sat on the redevelopment commission before resigning in 2009 due to his disagreement over the handling of property negotiations with CCE Inc. — said the lunch meeting was unethical considering the scope of the development. “If they were going to hold a meeting like that, they should have held it during the redevelopment meeting for everybody to gather the information,” Coffey said Thursday. “This smells of the type of government that people are fed up with. I’m extremely disappointed that they chose to go this route.”

3 comments:

Matt Nash said...

I wouldn't read too much into the location, I think it is the only restaurant left with a smoking area

Iamhoosier said...

I don't think this "meeting" was inappropriate. The lack of obtaining knowledge about projects and proposals has been a much bigger problem for the council as a whole. Hopefully Diane and Kevin paid for their own lunches.

I do think that the River View development, as currently proposed, is inappropriate for a variety of reasons but no one wants to answer those questions.

The New Albanian said...

Applebee's has a smoking area. Don't ask me how I know that.