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Originally Posted by RM14
It's not even a wink. There are public statements that say this is not reflecting other projects being planned seperate and independent of the bid.
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If an arena is Separate from the bid then that means it needs more city dollars without the federal matching funds.. My issue is this was the opportunity to get someone else to pay for it. They didn’t take it.
So if an Arena can’t be built with the current city contribution to the games then saying it will be built outside of the games is not a benefit of the games.
Also these separate projects which are unannounced will tie up infrastructure dollars. For them to be unannounced at this stage is not acceptable. Either the bid is what is written down on the paper for what it costs or the bid is all of the extra we wants with no idea how it will be funded or how much it will cost.
Effectively you are saying that the city will contribute 300 million to a new arena outside the currently announced funding for the Olympics. Perhaps 150 million more if the funding dollars tied to the community arena can be moved to the event center. (Though if that can happen why isn’t it announced already).
So what you effectively are wanting people to do is vote yes on an undetermined scope and undetermined budget. If anyone looks at why olympics go grossly over budget it’s from doing exactly what you are asking. Scope change kills Olympic budgets.