City Attorney Admits Hilltown Purchase Puts Waterfront Project At Risk
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 15 September 2010 — 4 comments below »
One could say I became rather unruly during last night’s City Council meeting when I called out “Don’t Buy Hilltown” (at 0:30 mark in video below) while the City Attorney explained the City’s financial hardship in moving the Waterfront project forward. The City Attorney responded however, stating that the City hasn’t purchased the property yet while adding that “[the City has] to balance many things,” i.e., the City prioritizes the purchase of the Hilltown property over completing the Waterfront development.
My impression of the City Attorney at the meeting was he is not honest, manipulates and bullies the City Council and in the discussion Re Anderson he seemed to be seriously misrepresenting the facts. Now why would he do that? Of course, that was just my impression from my own personal observations, others may have perceived him differently. But I am glad Jeff called out! It was heard.
I agree completely with Susan Keeffe. It was obvious that Cabral is central to some plot that the city has underway that threatens to destroy all of this (again), that he expected to lie and manipulate us into believing that Anderson-Pacific is somehow to blame instead (when it is clear that the city is purposefully delaying this project for selfish gain), that he is transparently dishonest and duplicitous, and that he is resentful of dissent. In the end, he completely failed at manipulating us, because his obvious lies became apparent and the union leaders who he brought in to support the city were so ill-prepared and uninformed that their message was ignored. (I mean, really, is the big concern that Anderson-Pacific is going to just build tract homes on this land? That was ridiculous and it is insulting that Cabral felt that we were such gullible idiots as to buy into that.)
This city has been lying to us over and over and over. And their only response to being caught in those lies is anger and further pretense. It seems very clear that their view is that our anger is a problem to be managed while they continue to ignore our very reasonable demands for accountability.
You are a lucky person. Cabral was adversarial that night as Joe Eddy was. Commander Dalby was also present. You might have gotten tasered.
For the record, Cabral should correct his misstatement regarding the use of tax increment fund on the Promenade project. A simple check of the RDA records will show that not one dime was received from the RDA for the Promenade project. In fact the Waterfront has generated millions of dollars in tax increment to the RDA, and to date the Waterfront has not received one dime. The only funds the RDA has expended in the Waterfront area have been in support of City’s ITC project not the Waterfront / Bayfront Project. Unless Mr Cabral believes the hiring of the likes of Sazbo was for and not in spite of the Waterfront.