Rays/Hines Deal Explained
Where will my tax money go?
No Home Run is hosting a series of Community Conversations on the terms of the deal and what they mean to us, the taxpayer.
Join us live on Zoom on Mondays at 6 PM
Zoom Meeting Held June 10
This is the fifth in a series of weekly community zoom meetings trying to explain the proposed St. Petersburg deal with the Rays-Hines team. Kari Mueller gives a quick review of the first four of these community informational sessions.
Then Peter Kent expands on his June 9 Tampa Bay Times column explaining why he feels the best estimate for the raw land value of the Historic Gas Plant [HGP]-Trop site is about $700 million today, not the $105 million the city will be paid over 30-years. The goal is to get the city council to request a new appraisal.
He also shows each HPG/Trop question asked and results received in this week's Mason-Dixon poll of 625 St. Petersburg voters. He shows each question as asked and their surprising results, often broken down into baseball fans and not baseball fans. He compares this recent poll with the two prior polls, one sponsored by the Rays-Hines team and one taken by the League of Women Voters.
Zoom Meeting Held June 3
Alan Delisle presented June 3.
Zoom Meeting Held May 20
Karyn Mueller reviews the questions asked by each of the city council members at the May 9 St. Petersburg Committee of the Whole meeting and the answers by the city staff and the Rays-Hines team. Also reviewed are the recommendations by the St. Petersburg Citizens Benefits Advisory Council [CBAC] and recent newspaper articles on this proposal Karyn is a licensed Professional Engineer [PE], an experienced reviewer of projects for the City of Miami, and a member of the CBAC which reviewed the proposed Rays-Hines deal. Watch it below.
Zoom Meeting Held May 13
Alan Delisle, former St. Petersburg Administrator discusses how badly the city has negotiated the Rays/Hines proposal. Watch it below.
Zoom Meeting Held May 6
Alan DeLisle, former St. Petersburg Administrator, walked us through the Hines/Rays development details.
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Read Delisle's full report and review: No deal should be this bad for a city and its residents