{"id":49082,"date":"2021-08-30T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49082"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:42:48","slug":"city-hall-project-put-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49082","title":{"rendered":"City hall project put on ice"},"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\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39162\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Amarillo-City-Hall.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every now and then you see evidence of local government listening to and acting on what it hears from the constituency it serves.<\/p>\n<p>So it happened up yonder in Amarillo, where the city council has postponed any action on relocating its City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement published on Amarillo Matters&#8217; site:<\/p>\n<p><em>After listening to feedback from Amarillo residents, the City Council voted 4 to 1 to withdraw their intent to issue $35 million in certificates of obligation for a City Hall project. In the meeting, Mayor Ginger Nelson said, \u201cThere were enough citizens who reached out to say I still have questions.\u201d Nelson added that, \u201cWe can take time; I do think it is diligent for us to take more time and spend time answering those questions&#8230;I think it\u2019s important for us to listen to what the citizens are telling us and figure out what the best approach is.\u201d\u00a0In a flip-flop from his earlier vote, Councilmember Cole Stanley was the lone vote to continue the issuance of certificates of obligation and the project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How about that?<\/p>\n<p>The council had floated a notion of relocating its City Hall. The idea, as I understand it, took more than one form. There was talk about adding it to a bond issue proposal that included renovating the Civic Center. Then the council thought it would issue the COs, which do not require a citywide vote.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has backed off altogether. I guess the current City Hall will have to serve the residents for the time being while the council wrestles with what to do, where to go &#8230; and how to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a satisfactory, if only temporary, outcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Every now and then you see evidence of local government listening to and acting on what it hears from the constituency it serves. So it happened up yonder in Amarillo, where the city council has postponed any action on relocating its City Hall. According to a statement published on Amarillo Matters&#8217; site: After listening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City hall project put on ice<\/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":[290,6754],"class_list":["post-49082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-ginger-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49082","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=49082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49083,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49082\/revisions\/49083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}