Months ago, the Commission attempted to take back the CRA due to gross mis-management by the Board and bad decisions affecting our tax money.
Politics is the only reason this Board is in place today.
Now, with the new Director, Joan Oliva, the power of the CRA Board is being eroded rapidly. I won’t go into it as I have written about it previously. We no longer have to worry about politics keeping this Board in place. Staff is doing it for us.
Now, they have finally started their $8 million dollar project on 10th Avenue North right at the start of our tourist Season. Great going guys! Just to spend this sort of money on a street, especially when our city can’t figure out how to pay the bills, is obscene in itself.
The Gateways project was voted in by the CRA Board during the real estate boom. But even after the bust, certain Commissioners along with the CRA Board voted it as their top priority. Times changed and we now can’t even pay for our own police retirement or fix the Casino building but our Commission did not care. $8 million can be spent on fixing up a street so that some people can have something pretty to look at driving home.
