On the eve of Mayor Huether blabbering about his TOP TEN WINS of 2015, I decided to post the anti-wins that occurred in 2015.
- The $1 million dollar events center siding settlement done in total secrecy.
- City councilors approving of a new administration building and construction manager at risk before they get a price estimate.
- The lies of the Parks Department become reality when the cost overruns on the new Aquatic Center are revealed to a surprised city council.
- The Tuthill shooting incident and the apparent secrecy of the SFPD, that now consider the case ‘inactive’.
- Falsehoods about the Events Center profitability.
- Violent crime was on the rise in 2015, and continues to spiral upward.
- Embarrassing fight between the city council and mayor over free pool and bus passes for kids.
- The RR relocation project proves to be the biggest waste of Federal tax dollars in Sioux Falls history, and still doesn’t solve the problem of rail traffic in the heart of our city.
- Mayor Huether proposes the largest budget in city history, then goes out and starts looking for ways to pay for it.
- SIRE is still broke, heck even more broke.
Honorable Mentions;
- Two TIF’s are granted to projects that are NOT in blighted areas.
- Paramedics Plus is granted the ambulance service contract for the city, even though they are the most expensive and had several conflicts of interest with the consultant helping to choose them.
- Stormland TV’s cozy relationship with the mayor is ignored by the station’s GM and the company’s corporate owners.