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Almost a new CDC contract
Borough Council’s Community Development Committee Monday evening approved the proposed five-year, $125,000 per year extension of its professional services agreement with the Main Street-Community Development Corporation.
They did so by a 4-3 vote. They did it after one of the most fractious debates on Council floor I’ve seen in a year. And they may replay it: the Committee’s vote goes to a full Council vote again in August.
Sample exchanges and contributions:
Richard Mark Kirkner (D-North) : “We’re committing to expenses when we don’t know where the money’s going to come from.”
Jeff Senley (R-North) : “We know where the money is. It’s in the pockets of people who live here.”
Kirkner again: “This is a vague, open-ended agreement. It is not a good contract. This is premature. I’d hate to lay off a patrolman or a member of the streets department to foster this relationship. No way. No way. No way.
Carlos Ciruelos (D-East) : “I don’t want to talk about letting a patrolman go. That’s the politics of fear.”
For more, please see Wednesday’s print edition of The Phoenix.
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