Do your homework before coming to the party, especially when you’re late. Idaho Code 67 chapter 49 clearly defines an auditorium district as: “one to build, operate, maintain, market and manage for public, commercial and/or industrial purposes by any available means PUBLIC AUDITORIUMS, EXHIBITION HALLS, CONVENTION CENTERS, SPOTS ARENAS, and facilities of a similar nature, and for that purpose any such district shall have the power to construct, maintain, manage, market and operate such facilities.

Where’s the complaining when those new widened roads get built?

Spokane has a new convention center and it’s nice. Do any of you have some evidence from Spokane or other cities that their convention centers are not paying their way. Or not attracting business? Somehow costing the taxpayer other than the hotel room tax?

I would agree on a multipurpose new fairgrounds in Garden City that can handle conventions and a decent public transportation system connecting Eagle, Garden City and Boise.
Meridian has designed itself to be a car/freeway megaplex. Let them enjoy life the way they like it.

Garden City needs the economic support to grow and improve services. If Garden City allowed full nude dancing bars, they could support a convention center. No such thing as a family friendly convention center except at Disney properties.

Hy Kloc for legislator? No thanks.

Meat? What a joke.

You know Dave, I don’t agree with you too often, but I agree with you on this one. GBAD and the Centre staff sure have wasted a lot of public money on studies with nothing to show for it.

How many conventions have been brought in by the world’s biggest and highest paid sales staff for one of America’s smallest convention centers?

Where are those two clowns – Schmaeder and Scully – and their petition to disband this lot? How about the Ameritel Boys? I know they were all talk and no action, but did they just roll over?

The Simplot kids will get Jumpin Jack’s place built while this group does nothing but commission another study.

And the GBAD chairman – he’s a joke too.

I think Judy Peavey-Duh and company on the GBAD Board have to justify their existence from time to time and this idiotic sign crap is how they expect to do it! How much MONEY gets wasted on the GBAD every year? What good do they do the community? Why all these layers of government?

EDITOR NOTE–Go read the story again! They were listening to a guy who was pitching his skills at getting public and GBAD folks lined up to promote a new CONVENTION CENTER…all that jabber had nothing whatsoever to do with actual signs. You could put that lingo in a report about nearly any subject. I am told the guy has even written a book and is considered an “expert.”