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Utah County officials seek public opinion on convention center design
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What Are Cities Really Committing to When They Build a Convention Center?
J. Dana Clark PhD
This paper looks at the eventual implications to cities when a convention center is built. The Delphi Technique was used to gain the expert opinions of a wide variety of knowledgeable experts in the field.
Five questions pertaining to the ultimate financial consequences of building a convention center in a municipality were examined.
There was great, general agreement that cities are putting themselves into a position where additional dollars will have to be spent in an attempt to make the initial investment, in this case a convention center, successful.
What this question is posing to the public is information to be used as an affirmation for the County to build this white elephant.
A subtle way of saying the public is "for" the project and paying more taxes to erect another monster tax debt, for life.
The real question is, should it be built at all?
Another REAL and Delta center in disguise that tax payers are footing the bill for and still paying for. We own enough failed private businesses buildings, we don't have the money or taxes to fund anymore of them. Say "No" to the project. How it looks is irrelevant and being used to claim citizen approval without a legal public vote.
We have a failed public transportation system that can't provide services, yet we are heavily taxed and charged to use to keep it in operation.
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