COMIDA process - gathering information
Much has been made about COMIDA. I’ll have another post going up shortly but a couple of things.
1. COMIDA requires a public hearing if the incentive package is greater than 100K
2. COMIDA can award w/o a public hearing packages up to 100K
So Brighton lodging LLC applied for more than 100K in incentives and as a result a public hearing on April 24, 2007 occured in the town of Brighton. For about 2 hours speaker after speaker spoke against the package. I wrote about the summary here,
OK - the stated purpose of that meeting was to gather information and report back to the entire COMDIA board.
Here is Mike Townsend the COMIDA lawyer reporting back to the COMDIA board on May 15, 2007 on the Brighton meeting so the COMIDA board can make a decision. Mike also provided a written back to the board of which I do not have a copy.
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More later but he mentions Paul Haney as having well organized arguments. You can see them here. he also mention Jim Vogel. Brighton Councilman Vogel spoke at the actual hearing and you see his comments here.
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