You are absolutely correct!

I believe Mayor Dailey’s contributors and Seminole BOOsters knew it wasn’t hard to convince the mayor to go along with them since they were contributors to his campaign.

Dailey lacks the leadership to tell the BOOsters and FSU “NO” that they had the resources to raise the funds and acquire grants. He simply could not turn away the quid pro quo in campaign donations that would come his way.

In order to make this look halfway not corrupt they used TCC and FAMU as pawns to throw them a bone to cover over their real scheme… scratching each other’s backs.

To put an outlay of taxpayers dollars to any entity there should have been an extensive review, research, fiscal analysis, and a few years of planning. If it all seemed viable then implement the funds to go to TCC and FAMU. But, our mayor lacks leadership and fiscal responsibility and had to rush this through to capitalize on funds needed now for his re-election campaign.

I am not going to beat up FAMU and TCC because they are recipients of funds improperly planned out. They are good community neighbors and provide much to the integrity and fiber of this community and don’t deserve the fallout.

Hope this helps.

My issue is that once money is given to any entity that’s outside the city’s control, precedence is set and other similar entities are “entitled” to the same consideration. Putting funding of FAMU and TCC projects on the backs of Tallahassee’s taxpayers is wrong no matter how badly they need funding for their projects. So is funding FSU’s projects.

It’s a stretch for the CRA funds to be given to other governments to fund their own projects. (I wonder what the ROI is on those 3 projects?) And for the CRA to have $30M just lying around looking for a place to go is ludicrous. That’s more than $100 for every man, woman, and child in the county. More than $150 for every person in the city.

Fund none of them and use the CRA for something to make the lives of Tallahassee’s residents better.

I don’t have a problem with money going to FAMU or TCC. They do not have the resources to raise the money, grants, and are overshadowed by FSU. An investment into those institutions are well-founded.

20 million dollars is a lot of money, but not to FSU, Seminole BOOsters, and the resources they have to secure private donations and grants.

Mayor Dailey sold out the taxpayers for a giveaway to his contributors.

From their Sky Boxes they will exclaim, “Let Them Eat Cake!”

I fail to see why the $20M to FSU is a problem but the $10 to FAMU isn’t. Both checks are to be written from the same account with both schools intending to upgrade their football stadiums.

The bigger problem, though, is that the city has another slush fund with millions of dollars sitting in it looking for a place to be spent. With Maddox, Burdette, et al no longer able to access those funds perhaps it’s best to shut those programs down rather than the city shout “squirrel” while they just move the money to another government group that has its own funding sources and rules.

There should be an investigation into Mayor Dailey spearheading the $22 million stadium seats give away so his campaign contributors would not be assessed fees for renovating their Sky Boxes, taxpayers will be assessed…

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You should remember the name.

When measuring rope. Maybe cut it a little short.