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North American / informal
noun:
work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.verb:
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Anirban Basu, downtown hotel shill paid $1600 for Frederick News-Post article, paid by…guess who?
Anirban Basu, the Baltimore based advocate for ‘public private partnerships’ had about 800 words in the Frederick News-Post May 22, 2016 under the head “Downtown hotel & conference center will be a boon for Frederick.” Basu attributed the $81m cost … Continue reading
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REPRINT: No quarterback for the downtown hotel? Letter to Editor FNP
No quarterback for the downtown hotel? Frederick News-Post, March 29 2018 You report (Mallory Panuska’s story published on March 24) Mayor Michael O’Connor as wondering whether there’s been a “quarterback” or anyone driving the city’s downtown hotel project. Initiated in 2009, … Continue reading
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City Attorney says “no requirement” that RFP be approved by Board of Aldermen — backroom machinations OK?
City Attorney Saundra Nickols tells us in an email a Request for Proposals CAN be issued by City staff without approval of the Board of Aldermen. She maintains that the City’s Purchasing Policies and Procedures Manual does NOT require Mayor … Continue reading
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Complaint to state Open Meetings Compliance Board about backroom deal on City procurement
COMPLAINT: Failure to conduct an open meeting of the Mayor & Board of the City of Frederick to present, discuss, and vote on RFP14J, the procurement of a developer for the City-sponsored downtown hotel
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Procurement RFP14J workshopped but never presented, discussed or voted on by Mayor & Board at public hearing
City records show that the key procurement, RFP14J, in which a developer was sought for the downtown hotel was never presented, discussed, or voted on, at a public hearing of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen back in 2013/2014. The … Continue reading
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The dilettante control freaks — looking back to 2013
Back five years, on February 6, 2013 at a Mayor & Board of Aldermen (M&B) workshop there was an interesting discussion among the City officials who got us into the downtown hotel boondoggle. They were considering a recommendation from the … Continue reading
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Mayor says terms of hotel deal with Plamondon and historic mitigation both in “active negotiation”
The terms of the City-Plamondon deal for developing a hotel complex on the old Frederick News-Post are now in “active negotiation.” Mayor Michael O’Connor says this in a letter to Andy Stout, who wrote him questioning aspects of the City’s … Continue reading
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Why the City-sponsored hotel is wrong
This website is dedicated to documenting what’s wrong with the City-sponsored hotel project here in downtown Frederick. We’ve written about: — how and why the project was launched (because hotel developer Pete Plamondon thought such a hotel could pay once … Continue reading
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HAC chair Robbins resigns, says hopes the “politics” holding up the project can be resolved
The longtime Hotel Advisory Committee (HAC) chair Earl Robbins resigned effective the end of 2017. And Mayor Michael O’Connor is not looking to replace him, spokesman Patti Mullins tells us. Robbins was honored by the Mayor & Board in a … Continue reading
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