While all of these meetings are important, I was troubled by this in the consent agenda of the city council;
Health, COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Study Agreement. Augustana University, $50K
So while we will have a half-ass education program on getting vaccinated, blow $50 Million on crap unrelated to Covid, we will spend this kind of money asking the public why they won’t get a shot. I think we know the answer. It was the Butler in the Kitchen with the Knife in City Hall.
Item #12 should have an exemption for the Parks Department since I heard they have NO minority employees in that department.
Item #14 has $6 million in Covid money going to the Pavilion. Because when you think of helping people with Covid, think the arts, or should we say fixing a roof?
Item #15 isn’t much better with $7 million going to the River Greenway Project that just got a $25 million dollar tax break in the form of a TIF and a land transfer of a park that didn’t exist, but we will never know because that is confidential information.
And you wonder why no one is getting shots?!
