Looks like having Mike Boyce running Cobb County instead of Tim Lee is already having some consequences: The Atlanta Braves just demanded an extra $14 million for roads and sidewalks around their new stadium opening in April, and the Cobb County Commission is telling them to get lost:
The dispute has been on-going since December, with origins that date to the earliest agreements forged by the county and team in 2013 and 2014. Those contracts require that $14 million in public funds be spent on transportation improvements, and are vague as to the exact projects covered by the money.
Cobb transportation director Jim Wilgus wrote in a Dec. 2 memo to County Manager David Hankerson that taxpayers have already spent $69.5 million on nine road projects for the stadium and privately owned, mixed-use development.
“We feel this satisfies Cobb County’s transportation improvement contribution,” Wilgus wrote in the memo.
The Braves think otherwise.
What appears to have happened here: When the county agreed to build the Braves a stadium back in 2013 without specifying a transportation plan, it threw $14 million into pot for unspecified future transportation needs. The Braves owners now say that the stuff the county built shouldn’t count toward that because the county was going to build that stuff anyway (though the county says $17 million worth of that stuff only came up as a result of the stadium deal), and is instead demanding reimbursement for $14 million worth of stuff that the team has already built.
This is almost certainly going to get resolved in court based on whatever crappy contract language Cobb County agreed to in 2013, not based on fairness or anything like that, and either way it shouldn’t interfere with getting transportation improvements like that bridge to the parking lots sort of working by opening day. It’s nice to see public officials not just signing any checks they’re asked to, though, even if it’s shutting the barn door way, way late.
Just knock off one year of Freddie Freeman’s contract – that will more than cover the $14 million.
And/or consider the Braves are paying nothing for their new spring training facilty – http://shadowofthestadium.blogspot.com/2017/01/poor-braves-will-have-to-buy-their-own.html
This is the whole basis of the four words with twelve characters
imposed upon America in 1954 that have opened the door for the destruction and pilfering of “Merikuh” by the elite, which slides “trust” over and beyond and makes government fraud and corruption “acceptable”
“un-arrestable” to and by the masses. Those four words with twelve characters activate an incessant insanity in human minds, that ultimately cause males to psychologically castrate and many examples of them ultimately physically castrating themselves as well. Dear Merikuns,
there’s nothing you can do without “the balls”, it’s a ball and a balls game.
What are these “four words with twelve characters”?