Mayor’s Bullet Points

By: Mr. Wilson on August 19, 2009

Just a few bullet points from Deena Winter's column today:

Mayor Beutler wants more power to fire people. Lincolnites will like the general idea, but let's not be too hasty. We want competent city employees, yes, but we don't want a partisan echo chamber at city hall.
Beutler is considering a spring 2010 vote on the charter changes that would be required to give him more fire power. That could be an active ballot since it's presumably the same one on which the arena will appear.
Mayor Beutler wants urban growth bonds, which will allow taking future sales tax revenue to pay for infrastructure. Is it sustainable to rely on future sales tax receipts in light of recent lagging sales tax trends?
Sounds like the railroads are playing along with the Haymarket redevelopment plans. That's good to hear.
Beutler expects "a large private input into" the arena project. I suppose it would be unrealistic to hope that "large" is equal to 100%...
We can expect at least four months to chew on any arena-related proposals before we vote. That's a good chunk of time.

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