A few weeks ago, I noticed that former EDD Stacey Ybarra was making some wild claims on her LinkedIn profile. One of them was that she herself concocted “over eight” economic impact reports for “potential business prospects” while she was here sucking on the public tit to the tune of over $100,000 in salary and benefits.
Of course, she’s long gone now and the Business Pork is still completely empty – despite her making it her “number one job” to find a tenant. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to point a finger to a single accomplishment by her during her 18 month stint which cost the taxpayers around a quarter-million in expenses!
I figured since she was long gone and had accomplished nothing, it was safe to ask for those “over eight” economic impact studies she supposedly created. I figured wrong!
As usual, the city’s overpaid, hack attorney JC Brown went running to the Texas AG with her usual line: “the City is of the opinion that the requested information is exempted from disclosure by a statutory exemption set forth in Chapter 552″
The LEDC is a gigantic circus run by head clown Misti Talbert. Talbert used to TALK a lot about “transparency” when she was mayor, but that’s all it was: talk. The truth is, it serves their purposes to keep everything hidden away from prying eyes, because otherwise people might be shocked at just how incompetent they really are.
Oh well. Eventually they WILL get a business in the Business Pork. It will be a horrible deal and the wages will be no better than anyplace else in town, but it will happen. THEN, after the “deal is done” and the prospect moves in, they will no longer be able to make their claims of secrecy because of “negotiations” – they will HAVE to let the taxpayers look at the deal they struck…and it will be glorious. I plan on roasting them for weeks when that happens.
Reminder: as usual, the LEDC will skip their monthly December meeting on the 18th because “holidays” – which means the year 2024 will come to a close without any tenants in the $7.4 million Business Pork. However, you WILL notice they are currently in the process of putting up two entrance signs (cost: $37,000) to mark the wildly overpriced goat pasture.