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Rationale? The rationale is that the city budget is caving in on all sides. Property tax and sales tax are both in the dumper. This is just the beginning.
The Council's priorities crack me up. Eliminate Office of Economic Development. Elminate Office of Sustainability. Retain Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.
Cuz, you know... projects like this are an essential public service - "Working in an experimental and collaborative style, the artist will create a comical and poignant feature-length film exploring interpersonal male dynamics and the round-about machinations men sometimes go through."
Wanna balance the City budget? Zero out every South Lake Union/Hallivulcan line item.
Problem solved.
Isn't South Lake Union going to zero itself out when the last biotech firm turns its lights out?
Mike Mann is doing a great job. I can't believe Council would cut this department. Seriously. OSE very responsive to the community - more so than some Council members.
#1 gets it ...
And this is the first year of a severe and real recession/depression. Over the next three cycles city spending must decrease by 40 per cent, my estimate, and King county will go into bankrupcy.
GET IT.
Food banks and shelters are the highest priority... the rest can be re invented later.
The building boom at all levels fueled the boom, all down by half and almost no small projects. Each of the downtown real estate sales in the millions generated gushing millions, real cash, excise tax.
Much maligned developers are not much in the game anymore.
Cities and towns and counties beyond Seattle will go into bankrupcy, King county may be there sooner than some.
Sultan has no money to pay its small police force.
TIME TO GET IT.
This has to be the biggest bunch of whining I have ever seen. I think history has shown that environmental causes get pushed to the back burner when money is tight and this time it is going to be much worse. I should know, I work in the environmental field and it is often tied to building
@3 for the insightful totally correct win.
And "OSE" is what, now? Office of Sustainable Everything?
$192.9 million for the Mercer Street non-fix? NIX IT!
#2
the arts lobby is the strongest in the city
people starve in the cold - but art projects reign supreme - many millions and millions
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