{"id":11660,"date":"2015-11-18T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2015-11-18T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:28:00","slug":"time-for-lgc-council-to-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11660","title":{"rendered":"Time for LGC, council to move forward"},"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\/10\/MPEV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11350\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MPEV-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MPEV\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MPEV-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MPEV.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting tidbit has come from Tolk Persons, a supporter of Amarillo&#8217;s proposed multipurpose venue\/ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>He writes in response to another social media post: &#8220;The LGC shall provide project status reports to the City Council monthly or as requested by the Council,&#8221; citing Section 2 (D)\u00a0of the resolution that the council endorsed at its regular meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Amarillo City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to proceed with development of the MPEV as dictated by the results of the Nov. 3 municipal referendum. It handed off the implementing of city downtown redevelopment policy to its appointed Local Government Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>It did not abandon its oversight of the effort to revive downtown. It has made sure that the LGC keeps the city &#8212; meaning the public informed along the way as it proceeds with the $32 million (give or take) MPEV.<\/p>\n<p>There will be\u00a0public accountability built into this process. The LGC, which comprise some new members &#8212; some of whom\u00a0had opposed the MPEV as\u00a0it was designed &#8212;\u00a0is now on the hook\u00a0to do\u00a0the City Council&#8217;s bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the council &#8212; which also comprises a majority that opposed the MPEV &#8212;\u00a0should be held accountable\u00a0for its own actions.<\/p>\n<p>If the council is going to keep faith with what the majority of voters said they want &#8212; which is to build the MPEV and keep the momentum going for downtown&#8217;s redevelopment &#8212; then it must ensure that the project keeps moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>If the LGC drags its feet, the council must\u00a0insist that it stop doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>An interesting tidbit has come from Tolk Persons, a supporter of Amarillo&#8217;s proposed multipurpose venue\/ballpark. He writes in response to another social media post: &#8220;The LGC shall provide project status reports to the City Council monthly or as requested by the Council,&#8221; citing Section 2 (D)\u00a0of the resolution that the council endorsed at its regular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for LGC, council to move forward<\/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":[9],"tags":[288,1436,5463,3153],"class_list":["post-11660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-local-government-corp","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660","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=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11661,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions\/11661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}