Quote Originally Posted by Dob Hooligan View Post
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I think leadership prefers to keep a low profile and isn’t concerned with making everyone aware of all that goes on there.
That's sort of the root right? It may be that it's entirely up to snuff. But when it's done in a black box where no one gets to know what is happening, then people start assuming that it's nefarious. I mean there's plenty of that going on here.

When you allow the public to be aware, that means they start asking for accountability. I really think that's part of the root problem....it doesn't at least APPEAR, that they want to have that public input/accountability. It's pretty cozy today. They say what they want, and the city provides. They claim without X, that the horses will leave, so the city provides. Now, these guys aren't getting extra money in their pockets for this (i'm going to make that assumption) rather the product they are pushing (fairgrounds) is getting the amenities that they want.

When this project is done, my hope is that they put the same amount of interest in to the rest of the grounds. We should be plum out of horse crap (pun). Let's focus on making the grounds themselves of the same quality. This many millions of dollars would go a LONG way for landscaping and spaces.