Double Check ?

Recently asked if I double-checked with Legal on the Elmore Drive agreement before it was placed on the agenda, the answer is yes.

An original printout of the double-check e-mail from 2014 is (here).  A 2015 printout of the e-mail was provided to Brian Wellner on June 15, 2015 via hard copy and June 18, 2015 via e-mail in a pdf.

The 2014 orginal e-mail was found as I was clearing my office.  I used to keep documents I thought might be important in the future on top of my bookcases.  The e-mail from 2014 was there, apparently put there on June 18, 2014 because it has a note on the reverse that reads "TW Sep Defs OK" with a "6/18" date.  I had forgotten I placed it there and shared my surprise when I found it with Comm Director Nahra.  The handwritten note indicates I both double-checked (with the e-mail) and triple-checked with the Legal Department (with a follow-up conversation) on whether the separate definitions of Casino Real Estate and Real Estate related to the road extension covered the concern about limiting grading work to what was in the City's interests.      

The Mayor and Council (not the City Administrator) have oversight responsibility for the Legal Department.  

The agreement in question builds a road, paid for by the businesses which will use it, that will support $250 million of new taxbase and 2,000 jobs.  It's the kind of agreement that would generally be understood to be a good thing.    

10/6/15