The Sioux Falls city council will be hard at work again tonight voting on things that don’t really matter
Let’s face it. IF four councilors and the mayor choose the Arena location tonight we know that besides the older generation (who votes often) that is opposed to it you will have several other opposition groups. Build it Downtown will oppose it and there is rumors that an actual Events Center opposition group is forming. Take those 3 groups and a bad economy and I don’t see a 51% majority. Maybe that is why the council is split. Think about it. At the end of the day when the vote fails they can blame the mayor who ultimately could have the last vote and say in the location. Which I find ironically different then the last rubber stamp council. IMO, location doesn’t matter even though I lean towards the logical location for economic development, downtown. And the logo I created for them is pretty fucking kickass to. I guess I do my best work for free 🙂
Call me crazy, but I don’t think an events center vote should be yea or nay. There should be 3 questions on the ballot;
• Do you support a new taxpayer subsidized events center?
• If so, do you support it being subsidized by funding source A or B?
• Where would you like to see the EC built? Downtown? Arena location? or other?
Sure, there has been poll after poll over the years on the EC but the ultimate poll is voters at the ballot box.
Let us decide for once.