LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Wow! How appropriate during the season of giving. For us citizens who are uneducated in local politics, especially the questionably needed Urban Renewal Agency, would a Coos Bay professional politician please write a guest editorial for the World newspaper that is for the benefit of all citizens and answers the questions set forth below?
The 18 December World newspaper front page below the fold article tells us that the professional politicians of Coos Bay have agreed to sell the Egyptian Theatre for a dollar. This follows closely the sale of the Hollering Place property to the Confederated Tribes for a token dollar amount. Didn’t the citizens of Coos Bay pay $400,000 for the Egyptian? Why weren’t we citizens asked if we want to sell our asset for a dollar? Why Hollering Place sale to the Tribe for such a lowball amount? Why is the Egyptian sale for a dollar in the interest of the citizens of Coos Bay? Is the next domino to fall a decision by the professional politicians to sell the land under the Coos Historical museum that I recall the citizens paid $500,000 for ten years ago? Maybe this asset will fetch $2.
There is more in the same issue World newspaper in an article above the front page fold. We are being told that the SCCF Board of Directors, those are the decision makers who we citizens did not elect, appoint or anoint, who will manage hundreds of millions of our monies without oversight or interference from us citizens, are actively planning investment and distribution of monies strategies.
We have a good idea of what Jordan Cove Energy would pay as taxes during the next 20 years. Before the professional politicians determine how the hundreds of millions of Jordan Cove Energy fees in lieu of taxes will be spent, would a professional politician / SCCF leader summarize the negotiated and agreed upon legally enforceable contract document with Jordan Cove Energy that covers payment of fees in lieu of taxes during the next 20 years and that is currently in place; a document that prevents sale of the company without provisions that guarantee receipt by the citizens of fees or taxes from any successor company - Chinese or otherwise - to Jordan Cove Energy who in all likelihood will sell out as soon as permits are received.
I eagerly wait to be informed by the guest editorial.
Fred Kirby
Coos Bay
Wow! How appropriate during the season of giving. For us citizens who are uneducated in local politics, especially the questionably needed Urban Renewal Agency, would a Coos Bay professional politician please write a guest editorial for the World newspaper that is for the benefit of all citizens and answers the questions set forth below?
The 18 December World newspaper front page below the fold article tells us that the professional politicians of Coos Bay have agreed to sell the Egyptian Theatre for a dollar. This follows closely the sale of the Hollering Place property to the Confederated Tribes for a token dollar amount. Didn’t the citizens of Coos Bay pay $400,000 for the Egyptian? Why weren’t we citizens asked if we want to sell our asset for a dollar? Why Hollering Place sale to the Tribe for such a lowball amount? Why is the Egyptian sale for a dollar in the interest of the citizens of Coos Bay? Is the next domino to fall a decision by the professional politicians to sell the land under the Coos Historical museum that I recall the citizens paid $500,000 for ten years ago? Maybe this asset will fetch $2.
There is more in the same issue World newspaper in an article above the front page fold. We are being told that the SCCF Board of Directors, those are the decision makers who we citizens did not elect, appoint or anoint, who will manage hundreds of millions of our monies without oversight or interference from us citizens, are actively planning investment and distribution of monies strategies.
We have a good idea of what Jordan Cove Energy would pay as taxes during the next 20 years. Before the professional politicians determine how the hundreds of millions of Jordan Cove Energy fees in lieu of taxes will be spent, would a professional politician / SCCF leader summarize the negotiated and agreed upon legally enforceable contract document with Jordan Cove Energy that covers payment of fees in lieu of taxes during the next 20 years and that is currently in place; a document that prevents sale of the company without provisions that guarantee receipt by the citizens of fees or taxes from any successor company - Chinese or otherwise - to Jordan Cove Energy who in all likelihood will sell out as soon as permits are received.
I eagerly wait to be informed by the guest editorial.
Fred Kirby
Coos Bay
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