{"id":11649,"date":"2015-11-18T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11649"},"modified":"2015-11-18T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:07:14","slug":"city-makes-important-move-forward-with-mpev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11649","title":{"rendered":"City makes important move forward with MPEV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Councilmen_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11650\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Councilmen_2015-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Councilmen_2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Councilmen_2015-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Councilmen_2015-1024x750.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo&#8217;s City Council\u00a0seems to have\u00a0been stricken with a sudden case of sanity.<\/p>\n<p>Word is out that the council, meeting tonight, voted <em>unanimously<\/em> to move ahead with a $32 million multipurpose event venue that drew the endorsement of most city voters in a Nov. 3 citywide referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Has hell frozen over &#8230; or what?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal. The council comprises three new members who had opposed the MPEV in its current form &#8212; which includes a ballpark. The three men constitute a majority on the five-member council.<\/p>\n<p>But the City Council really had no choice but to ratify the results of\u00a0what was officially a\u00a0non-binding vote. To do otherwise would invite serious political retribution.<\/p>\n<p>So, what happens now?<\/p>\n<p>As I understand it, the council now hands off to the Local Government Corp., which is appointed by the council to implement the policy decisions handed down by the council.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been some concern expressed about the LGC&#8217;s capability to dot the i&#8217;s and cross the t&#8217;s needed to ensure that the MPEV gets built, that it is done in accordance with sound practices and can be done at or under budget.<\/p>\n<p>I am heartened, though, to learn that the City Council has managed to rally as a united body behind the will of those who took time earlier this month to\u00a0support the MPEV &#8212; and the ballpark that goes with it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep moving\u00a0forward.\u00a0Shall we?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo&#8217;s City Council\u00a0seems to have\u00a0been stricken with a sudden case of sanity. Word is out that the council, meeting tonight, voted unanimously to move ahead with a $32 million multipurpose event venue that drew the endorsement of most city voters in a Nov. 3 citywide referendum. Has hell frozen over &#8230; or what? Here&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City makes important move forward with MPEV<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[288,1436,3153],"class_list":["post-11649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11653,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}