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June 30th the City lost $500,000 it has been touting as state support for the downtown hotel. The State Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) says it is no longer funding the Frederick hotel project. In January 2016 the City … Continue reading →

Mr Mayor, Aldermen: This remains a project in flux, still largely undefined nearly two and a half years after the first City-Plamondon Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of December 2015. According to the schedule attached as Appendix F to the first … Continue reading →

Soon after he first assumed office as Mayor at the beginning of 2010 Randy McClement committed the City to sponsorship of a downtown hotel. It was to be a $45m, three or four year project — due to open by … Continue reading →

The Executive Summary begins with an Overview reporting supposed revisions to the draft new-MOU for the downtown hotel project made in response to comments at the May 23 Workshop. Bullet points describe revisions claimed to have been made “to address … Continue reading →

The cover-up of the hotel Big Fix has gotten worse. The City says it cannot find the key records authorizing issuance on February 19, 2014 of the Request for Proposals for the downtown hotel. Known as RFP14J this solicitation was … Continue reading →

Eight talking points written for Mayor & Board meetings on the proposed new MOU between the City and hotel developer Plamondon: 1. Plamondon the developer will now fund the conference center as well as the hotel, but the City will … Continue reading →

At 10am this morning the City changed the venue of the Hotel project Special Workshop of the Mayor & Board from the 140 West Patrick St Municipal Annex conference room to the City Hall boardroom. Patti Mullins told us the … Continue reading →

SUBMISSION TO MAYOR & BOARD OF ALDERMEN New MOU looks an improvement, but raises many questions — you need to go deeper than the salesman’s spin Mr Mayor, Aldermen: Attached is a submission urging you to ask difficult questions about this … Continue reading →

Approached by host Dewey Stewart to do a podcast on the hotel project for his frederickland.org I was happy to talk. His ‘peg’ was the Mayor & Board Workshop on a new MOU for the hotel Wednesday May 23 at … Continue reading →

The State Attorney-General’s Open Meetings Compliance Board thinks there may well have been secret meetings in 2013 on the downtown hotel procurement, and does not accept the City’s denials. The Board in a May 11 ruling says “We do no … Continue reading →