Re: your article about members of the Assembly rethinking their positions on the filtration plant (Oct. 4 – 17, 2007).
I wonder if the "misled" excuse by our elected officials will be applied to the stadium project as well. At least with the filtration project, there is a monitoring committee. Here in CB4, we have nothing – no accountability and no information. Now with the Industrial Development Agency issuing bonds to a corporation that has a track record of incompetence and default, more of our parkland will be destroyed for multi-level parking garages in the asthma capital of the world. The garage construction has not even begun and there are millions of dollars in cost overruns. These dollars come out of everyone’s pocket. Jobs are always promised – the trick is getting community members hired after their health and quality of life has been given away. "Misled" is not the word.
Anita Antonetty
This letter was originally posted as a comment on the Web site.
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