Starting during the White admin, Nance has hosed the public for a cool $ billion by now, just on these big box scams.

Wonder what that has been worth to him... I'm sure he and his family are sitting pretty but how is the view from up there?

I wonder what any of this has been worth to any of these sell-outs, really.

A few million to a few immoral lawyers here and there, to sell 1,000,000s of people down the river.

Disrupt IT

If they had 32M that they are not going to spend on Public Auditorum, why aren't they dealing in good faith with the 113??? How is their asking price a "deal buster"?? Something stinks.

 Whether or not, lo and behold, the county does have backup docs for the $2.4M, that MMPI letter, (which appears for them to be some "huge accountability effort") says it was for "pre-construction design building and various consultants for performing work on the feasibility plans."  

What the heck kind of multi-million dollar "feasibility planning" can they possibly defend now, while they simultaneously suddenly say " Oh Whoopsy! Wrong spot! Bad location! And that's after months/years and all kinds of gozungus dough of OURS was already spent months/years ago on thoroughly testing Public Hall ( remember that PD "cliff hanger"? - while Miller was still vying for his Tower City locale?;) and more recently the complete interior and exterior architectural plans and renderings, and first-class air trips and very posh, private meetings; and Power Points to shove the whole thing down our throats. Even a toddler knows that kind of "feasibility" - that one one must have gained a sure seat in the sandbox, and be sitting in it, before one starts peeing in it. 

So for starters, we need to demand our "feasibility planning" money back. MMPI's sudden revelations of "bad spot!" after things had gone so far and expensively, now demonstrates they did a pretty bad job of even that. (That is, "a bad job" if the truly best spot for such a venture for this county had been their goal, not which developer and whatever else would get them the most money.)

And what kind of hokum contracts did our apparently increasingly enriched "leaders" and attorney friends dream up, if Hagan can now seemingly attempt to "threaten" us that MMPI could just walk away - after they've gotten a couple of million for doing apparently nothing (nothing, at least for us, who're providing those millions stuffed in heir pockets.) 

I agree with Roldo (and thank Roldo wholeheartedly for doing all this legwork and reporting the facts to us!) - we need MMPI to finally to walk/get away. But they also need to come clean with what they did for what they've been paid - did for us - and they need to pay us back into our county coffers for what they didn't do.  MMPI, the Commissioners, the lawyers - the whole lot of 'em.

This very privately concocted, now spread with ever-evolving, creative layers of more "concoct," this complete heist of the public has gone on beyond long enough  - all the way from the two-years-ago, 2-commissioner made sales tax hike that still certainly appears to have legally been required to have gone on the ballot, but didn't, as it almost certainly would have been voted down - by us - the heisted, sweat-browed, working taxpayer-uppers.  Even after their two years of shoving this down our throats, I bet that if  this "med mart/convention center" would go on the ballot now - even without the sales tax hike - even more would say NO! The people paying for this now joke, but not getting any of the inside big goodies, don't even want this thing. Some threat (to the majority, not inside few) to have MMPI walk away....

And I wonder how many have even seen those beautiful architectural drawings - the ones that promise lovely large and small meeting rooms for meetings, breakfasts, luncheons, etc. - but with no additional downtown parking, let alone the necessary free or very low cost parking to attract tenants, customers, and even allow Cuyahoga residents who are to pay for the whole thing to just walk through and see it every once in awhile, at no additional cost...And after all this time, I've heard little about any, firmly promised tenants. 

It certainly is time to get our money back and say goodbye to  these greedy, "unwise." And I bet that such an entrepreneurial, private, for-(big)profit medical mart would do far better as a Clinic (or UH or Metro, or consortium) subsidiary, on Clinic land, paid for by Clinic and private business investment - the way it should be.  

Finally, my main point now follows. Doesn't anyone else find it noticeably "odd" that MMPI and the Commissioners and all others involved in ripping off our tax monies and taking food, education and health millions from the lives of economically strapped working people of Cuyahoga for this - have so suddenly, right after the election where the Commissioner structure was voted down, found that their old deal won't work?

What kinds of papers and deals will now be thrown in the trash? What didn't they want to/could not and stay out of court - put in the hands and before the eyes of others (whom I not convinced will be much better than what we've had, with our Cuyahoga millions just sitting there tempting more private deals and skims.)  The concurrence of events of trashing what was so pathetically certain weeks before, with the certain, more exposed change of office, is just too odd.....