Well, they waited until 4:46pm on a Friday (a day after the deadline) but finally caved in and admitted the LEDC lied. From the City secretary:
“The City and LEDC have searched, and as you were previously advised by email from me on June 28, 2023, responsive documents to that particular EDC Matrix entry do not exist, at this time.“
Thank you for your interest in the City and LEDC.
So the line that says “jobs announced” and is filled in with “20 – 35 jobs” and $700,000 in capital investment was made up out of thin air, apparently. The “responsive documents” they supposedly used to come up with that “20 to 35 jobs” DO NOT EXIST.
So – where did you get that “jobs announced” number? I don’t know. There are “no responsive documents” and we made that shit up. OR they have nothing but an oral agreement from their secret business pork prospect. But the fact remains, there is nothing agreed to in writing, since there are “no responsive documents” according to the City.
Most likely Stacey Ybarra did this. LEDC President Misti Talbert gets paid nothing for her position and is likely not smart enough to make a spreadsheet like that. Ybarra, on the other hand, gets paid over $100k in salary and benefits and needs to look like she’s keeping busy to justify that ridiculous salary.
Next up: an Open Records Request for the line that says “Announcements/project wins: 1” which looks like yet more bragging about jobs that nobody has put down on paper yet!