Just going to share a few highlights...
One of Spear's major issues with the current mayor and Council is the way they handle various business entities.
"It's been a disappointment for me to see different entities and different people being treated differently; people aren't being treated the same," he said. "That's a policy shown by City Council's actions."
One of his prime examples of this is the situations with the proposed interchange projects at Kingman Crossing and Rattlesnake Wash off Interstate 40.
"We treat (Lee) Bruno and (Jay) Schritter differently than we do Vestar and that group," Spear said of the developers of Rattlesnake Wash and Kingman Crossing, respectively.
"We were going to have the funds from Kingman Crossing pay for Rattlesnake Wash," he said, wearing an astonished expression. "Rattlesnake Wash should pay for itself, as should Kingman Crossing."
Might be interesting to see how this is responded to by the public.
He said the players at Kingman Crossing have understood that they need to have a funding source to make the interchange project a reality, and they have considered three options: a sales tax reimbursement, a community facilities taxing district and bonds. "The developers at Rattlesnake Wash were told three years ago they needed a funding plan and they haven't (got one) yet."
While the good old boys may not have a funding source identified as of yet, we do know that their local political ally has already made a pitch to have all of us in Kingman pay for it.
Meanwhile the Kingman Crossing folks never asked to put a bond on any ballot to pay to improve their property. To be fair... the good old boys haven't either... yet. Luckily for them they have five more years to think it over.
Here is just one silly idea... approach the city with a development agreement and front the cost with the expectation to get paid back in full if all agreed to benchmarks are met.
Interstate 40 politics in Kingman is just getting revved up.
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