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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
The Flames should start bearing their teeth with the mayor. Either he sees the economic value with the Flames or he doesn't. But they should start pushing that button. To date Nenshi has copped out entirely saying it is up to the Flames, everytime the subject of concerts comes up he ducks it, everytime the subject of new arena comes up he ducks it. Saying we havnt been approached. BS total BS. When clearly the Flames have talked to mayor several times. He has said in the past the Flames have economic value but his actions are proving otherwise.
We have an interesting situation Owners that do not want to foot the entire bill and a Mayor that feels the city should not pay a dime outside of street/area infrastucture. The estimated numbers have changed over the past 2 years. To me it seems to be the Flames are willing to foot about 60%???
But the Mayor better realize contributing 0% or less than 10% of the building itself is not going to fly.
This is just my opinion but I feel the Flames should put up 70% , the province and city should put up the rest.
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Edit - not signalling SG out specifically, as others have also focused on Nenshi... but I'm not exactly sure why people put Nenshi at the epicenter of their ire?
Sure he has been vocal about his feelings about CalgaryNext, but has been pretty reasonable in suggesting that the Flames organization should present and alternative solution and how taxpayers would benefit from public monies going into a private corporation.
Secondly, every council member has an equal vote...
Nenshi's vote counts as one, but also as the tie breaker - if it is required. There are 14 other votes aside from Nenshi's vote - If the calculus is as skewed as what Burke suggests with his “I think most intelligent people get this.” comment, then convincing the majority of councilors in office to put public money into a new area should be a piece of cake right?
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