If you ask people what they want to have that money spent on, it's potholes, if they're confident that the money is actually going to be used for fixing potholes, |
If you tell the people who are supposed to fund this that you're not going to fix their problems, you're not going to get this thing passed, |
That doesn't seem like what people would expect their Measure C monies to be used for, |
The government officials just said, 'OK, here's our project list, now vote on it,' ... and nobody felt as though there'd been any opportunity to have any great say in the thing. |
The idea of it was that the city would help offset some of the offsite development costs, based on the extra tax base that was going to be generated, |