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Originally Posted by nik-
They presented their idea, which was a joke, and there was no plan B. Perhaps you don't want to define that as take or leave it. Maybe "Take it because we've got nothing else, because we fully expected everyone to just eat this up" ?
The mayor's comments aren't ideal from a professionalism standpoint, I'll grant that. However, the Flames can talk all they want about starting point and dialogue after the fact but they came with their "fully baked" idea and immediately went public with it without any of this seemingly important dialogue. so it's a little late to try and treat CalgaryNEXT like it was some collaboration.
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Still disagree, and understand I didn't like the CalgaryNEXT proposal either.
They paid their own dollars to come up with a plan and a presentation that didn't cost the city anything but time to look at.
You can call it half baked, hair brained, stupid ... I'm good with any of those, but nothing in it was a take it or leave it. It was their vision, one they liked and tried to sell to the city as a way to work together on some shared goals.
Isn't that pretty much the way any group approaches a city on a potential partnership? With a plan and a starting point proposal. I know I see it all the time in my line of work, and I don't feel the need to stand up in a board room and accuse the other side of "take it or leave it" etc.