Comments on: Undercover Work On Cop Shop?

By: Get This...

Get This... — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:04:13 +0000

Looks like the City of Boise is also in the business of using the Airport as a shopping mall. You can put a car there and advertise your auto business. You can put a tractor there too.

But this next one is really goofy. Now there is a “model. full size hotel room” that has been built next to the baggage claim. The room has been built by a motel that is not even open yet but wants to get travelers ready.

So did they bid out the space to the highest bidder? Why this hotel? Maybe this is how they plan to pay for the new cop shop.

Pretty soon the airport will be more mall than airport.

EDITOR NOTE–Don’t forget, the airport is under “new management.”

By: Treva

Treva — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:27:13 +0000

I thought they were going to build on the property at 30th and Main? That weed infested property has been off the tax rolls for how long now?

By: Joe Moran

Joe Moran — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:31:40 +0000

Land speculation by the Mayor and city council is the real problem! Of course we need better police facilities but not to enrich a someone with property to sell.

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:10:36 +0000

Boise City government is no different from Ada County government in this regard. For example, did you know…?:

• Ada County is in the process of purchasing the commercial space on the Courthouse Corridor property for a purported $1.8 million. There will be yet an additional cost to taxpayers because developer Civic Partners will get a reduction in their payments to CCDC that were supposed to “offset” a portion of the lease/bond payments for the Courthouse. There has been no public hearing on this issue.
• Ada County has received about eight proposals from developers for developing the Western Idaho Fairgrounds (now called “Expo Idaho”) and moving the fairgrounds elsewhere in the County. I do not recall a single public hearing on this major issue.
• The EMS ordinance at least received a public hearing, but little notice or public involvement beforehand, despite the fact that the proposal was a complete rewrite and overhaul of the County’s previous ambulance ordinance.

It seems that Ada County government largely operates in a vacuum these days. Even the Idaho Legislature’s Republican caucuses are held behind closed doors. I’m not making excuses for Boise City government, but rather suggesting that there is room for improvement at all levels.