At last night’s City Council Meeting, the City Manager unveiled the City’s ARPA Stimulus money proposal. In short, the City is receiving $9,000,000 to be used for a limited number of purposes and it must be spent by 2024. I urge all of you to watch that fifteen minute segment of the meeting and read … Continue reading “Christmas In July: The ARPA Stimulus Money Request”
Economic Development
GRO Outreach TLDR
Categories Economic Development, Transparency2 Comments on GRO Outreach TLDRThis is sort of a TLDR for the .01% of people who drill down. If you write what I do, angry people will always say you over-simplified or didn’t provide enough detail and so on. Which is often true. You cannot help but do those things in any short form article. So this is some … Continue reading “GRO Outreach TLDR”
July 8, 2021 Economic Development Committee Packet
2003 Furniture Store Guy
Categories Economic Development, Engagement, Neighborhoods, TransparencyAnother old guy reference: There’s this moment in the movie Amadeus, where the Emperor walks in on a rehearsal of Mozart’s newest music and he sees something so obviously wrong he’s rendered speechless with confusion. My ‘fix the web site’ proposal At last week’s City Council Meeting, I felt a lot like this guy (not … Continue reading “2003 Furniture Store Guy”
The Minority Report (Part 2 of 2: Policy)
Categories Airport, Economic Development, Engagement, Marina, Policy, Public Safety, Taxes, Transparency, TransportationThis is the second half of our response to the April 15th State Of The City presentation. Part 1 discussed our objections to the way it was carried out. Here we’ll talk about some specific policy differences. For those of you short on time, you can follow along with this presentation packet. As noted last … Continue reading “The Minority Report (Part 2 of 2: Policy)”
State Of The City Presentation To DMMA (November 11, 2020)
Format VideoCategories Economic Development, Neighborhoods, Policy, Transparency1 Comment on State Of The City Presentation To DMMA (November 11, 2020)Back in November, Mayor Pina and Deputy Mayor Mahoney gave a presentation to the Des Moines Marina Association and it’s worth thinking about. I get comments sometimes complaining that all I do is bitch about picayune stuff like parliamentary procedure saying basically “Let’s talk about something real, Dude!” Well, this is as real as it … Continue reading “State Of The City Presentation To DMMA (November 11, 2020)”
Highline Times: Des Moines council hires temporary economic development director
Categories Economic Development, HistoryDes Moines council hires temporary economic development director Mon, 08/02/2010 After an impassioned discussion about Des Moines’ future and how best to utilize what little extra money the city has, a split City Council voted 4-2 to create a temporary full-time economic development manager position. Marion Yoshino, who has been volunteering on a downtown business … Continue reading “Highline Times: Des Moines council hires temporary economic development director”