Clark County understands. Votes 7-0 against RDA. Perhaps they remember what happened when a non elected board was put in charge of the bridge$ project. Big guys profit and the rest of us suffer.
This post has a first part.
Clark County balks at statewide development initiative, by Elizabeth DePompei (News and Tribune)
CLARK COUNTY — An attempt to get Clark County on board with a statewide initiative that could spur economic development in Southern Indiana was knocked down this week when officials voted to deny a resolution seeking preliminary support ...
... “I was surprised that the council would not agree to come to the table to talk about an application so that at least a portion of that $84 million would go to projects in our area,” (1Si CEO Wnedy Dant) Chesser said ...
... “When you give up your control of development and growth and you take it away from the people and put it in the hands of people who may not even live in this area, you’re pandering to some special interests somewhere,” Clark County Councilwoman Kelly Khuri said. “We need to make the decisions — the commissioners and the council and the mayors.”
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