I have a request – please stop saying the convention center [project] cost taxpayers $140 million. It’s $177.4 million in tax dollars.
Taxpayers own the entire project and are on the hook for the entire amount. The newspaper and High have not paid a red cent [towards the real estate.]
To give them credit for paying every month [on the ‘lease’] for the next 20 years as though they have already invested is just crazy. They have to do it 240 times and then we can say they paid $35 million- until then? They paid/invested ZERO!
