By:  Diane Benjamin

https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=24638

The meeting is going to be out of order (pun intended) tonight.  Meetings usually end with Mayor and Council comments, there must be a reason for this change:

I’m sure other items will be interesting, but severing ties with VenuWorks piqued my interest.  I don’t know why but the City wrote checks to VenuWorks totally $1600:    https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23691

The documentation says nothing about the balance of the $375,000 loan VenuWorks loaned to the City so they could loan it to VenuWorks to remodel the 10 year old facility.  The City has been paying $4999.98 a month for between 45 and 50 months.  To me that means it hasn’t been paid off.  Maybe somebody will ask it tonight.

They claim the termination is because of COVID.  I suspect it also has to do with not living up to expectations.

The pandemic is over:

Extending parking enforcement downtown is back:  (Why would anyone live downtown if there is no free parking?)

I’m sure other interesting items will occur during the meeting, they always do.