Have we been given the ‘ENTIRE’ settlement agreement?

On Tuesday we will see the latest Dog and Pony show from the administration give us more excuses, not under oath, about the settlement. The Events Center ‘team’ will be present to answer questions of the council at the informational. Hopefully the mayor won’t start crying.

One member of the ‘team’ will not be there. The project manager of the EC no longer works for the city (I’m sure she is very happy about that).

Something though seems to be missing, and it is probably the reason why it took over 24 hours to release the settlement document; the working details. I’m sure they took the time to see what ‘they had to release’ at a minimum. Why do I think this part is missing? Well, it would be like Einstein presenting his theory of relativity on an empty chalkboard. How did the city come up with the different settlement amounts? It’s a mystery to me, because the working details are missing. But there are still a whole other group of questions that could be asked.

The council asks you send them those questions to ask. Their contact information is at siouxfalls.org.

Here is my list;

• What does liens and roofing have to do with a ‘siding’ settlement.

• Why did the actual installer, McGrath have no accountability?

• Why did the city use leftover contingency funds as part of the settlement? Why did Mortenson get any of those funds since the siding was never fixed?

• What happened to the mockups and forensic engineers report about the durability of the siding?

• Why didn’t we cut a whole in the wall and investigate if there is any internal damage?

• If the siding is purely just an outer protective layer of the EC and not ‘structural’ what would have been the harm in fixing it after the facility opened?

• Why were we told we were getting money in a ‘pot’ when we really didn’t receive anything monetary?

• And my final and most important question; why continue to lie about the settlement? If serves NO point.

I have a feeling this will be one of the most heated council meetings you will ever see in recent memory. The last one like this was over a decade ago when Tim Kant asked the DT loop to be closed. I may watch this one from the safety of my home.