This decision was tabled last time and has to be resolved tonight. As you might recall, the LEDC board previously made a recommendation to re-appoint three of themselves (shocker!) BACK onto the LEDC board, despite decades of failure and money wasting. The three in question are Talbert, Monroe and Erwin.
Monroe, Talbert and Erwin ALL Want Back On LEDC Board. City Council Needs To Get Rid Of Two Of Them
There are PLENTY of other people waiting in the wings to move in and give it a shot.
Something tells me they will take the “wussy middle ground”: they’ll dump Monroe and leave Talbert and Erwin on there. Which is a shame and leaves the core problem intact.
What they SHOULD do is dump all three and get some new blood in there. Talbert has been a proven failure both as mayor and LEDC president, as I have chronicled here in great detail over the last 6 years.
Keep in mind: now that Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward is quitting his post suddenly for a bigger paycheck in Santa Fe (something I’ll get to soon) and Finley will be gone in mere weeks – we can say the following about the Business Pork Project:
The Business Pork project has been going on for over TWENTY YEARS! It has seen FIVE City managers come and go, THREE assistant City managers come and go, at least SEVEN different mayors, and at least FIVE economic development directors. At least TWENTY big wigs who had a say in this disaster have come and gone. And guess what?
The Business Pork STILL SITS EMPTY!!! It is a $7.4 MILLION dollar testament to failure, incompetence, lack of planning and general retardation.
But yeah sure, let’s let Monroe and Talbert keep banging their heads against a wall for another two years. Sounds smart!
