{"id":19702,"date":"2017-02-10T19:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19702"},"modified":"2017-02-10T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:58:59","slug":"clumsiness-breaks-out-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19702","title":{"rendered":"Clumsiness breaks out at City Hall"},"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\/2017\/02\/image1225946_web1_copy_williams-perry-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19703\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image1225946_web1_copy_williams-perry-web-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image1225946_web1_copy_williams-perry-web-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image1225946_web1_copy_williams-perry-web.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo&#8217;s City Council is looking once again like a gang that cannot shoot straight.<\/p>\n<p>It is looking to fill a slot on the Amarillo Economic Development Corp. board. It pushed the name of a prominent local developer, Perry Williams, to the top of its finalist list.<\/p>\n<p>Then the candidate went missing in action. The city couldn&#8217;t find him. Williams wasn&#8217;t responding to efforts by the city to arrange an interview with him.<\/p>\n<p>Then Williams &#8212; who is developing the huge Town Square residential\/commercial project on Soncy Road &#8212; announced he was backing out. He pulled his application for the AEDC board.<\/p>\n<p>Some media reporting indicates that his application had been &#8220;overlooked&#8221; by council members.<\/p>\n<p><em>Huh? What the &#8230; ? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The council is looking at four finalists to fill the AEDC spot. I am acquainted with a couple of them, one of whom I would\u00a0recommend for AEDC.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting way out here in the peanut gallery, I am not sure if Williams backed out because of incompetence by the selection committee, or if he just decided at the last minute he had too much to do already &#8230; that he couldn&#8217;t devote the time needed to craft job-creation policies.<\/p>\n<p>Service on the AEDC is a big deal. The AEDC is charged with using sales tax revenue to lure new businesses &#8212; and to enhance existing businesses &#8212; in the search for new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem a bit strange, though, that the council would &#8220;overlook&#8221; an application, then push it forward &#8212; only to have an applicant suddenly become MIA.<\/p>\n<p>Can we get an explanation? From somebody? <em>Anybody?<\/em><\/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 is looking once again like a gang that cannot shoot straight. It is looking to fill a slot on the Amarillo Economic Development Corp. board. It pushed the name of a prominent local developer, Perry Williams, to the top of its finalist list. Then the candidate went missing in action. The city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clumsiness breaks out at City Hall<\/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":[155,288,290],"class_list":["post-19702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-aedc","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702","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=19702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}