Denver Direct: Denver Bond Promises Not Kept – Mayor Hancock and City Council Are Betting Your Memory is Short… The Latest Flimflam


Friday, February 15, 2013

Denver Bond Promises Not Kept – Mayor Hancock and City Council Are Betting Your Memory is Short… The Latest Flimflam

$40 million bond bait and switch – read entire article on George-in-Denver here.

“Those weasel words have been embraced by the city’s mamma’s and papa’s, including the mayor, the city council (with the notable exception of Councilperson Faatz), and the city attorney’s office to work the flimflam, the bait and switch on the people of Denver to the extent that the original intent of 1H has been gutted, prostituted for purposing the following:
Purpose 8 New Construction of Cultural System Facilities
o Boettcher Concert Hall – reduce funding from $40,000,000 to $13,881,000
Add new project for DPAC Champa Street Bridge in the amount of $2,500,000
Add new project for Denver Art Museum – Ponti Building in the amount of $3,000,000
Add new project for Denver Botanic Gardens – Café, Restroom and Science Pyramid in the amount of $6,619,000
Add new project for Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Denver Zoo – shared parking in the amount of $4,400,000
Add new project for Levitt Pavillion Amphitheater at Ruby Hill in the amount of $2,000,000
Add new project for McNichols Building Improvements in the amount of $4,800,000
Add new project for Red Rocks Amphitheater in the amount of $2,800,000″