Comment on Part of Nugget Project strikes out (for the moment) on request for city pass-through funds. by Dave Morgan
The application for the Economic Incubator to be awarded federal Community Development Block Grant funds, that are intended to help low and middle income people, begs the question…do economic incubators directly…DIRECTLY help low to middle income people? The application submitted by the City Office of Business Development (Joe McCarthy, Director) states that low and middle income people will be encouraged to apply for jobs within the incubator, and that sixty jobs on average would be running incubator operations. However, what are those sixty jobs? Aren’t incubators filled with high tech, high skilled entrepreneurs and professional staff who are perfecting leading-edge products and services, while dealing with high finance and investment firms, all seeking to launch the next iPod or similar products and services? Those jobs don’t sound like their held by low to middle income people to me. And why is it that if the economic incubator is such a high-powered success machine, why would it seek to take money away from low income family assistance to children, CASA volunteers, fixing FISH’s roof, helping to keep the elderly in their homes, making our Community Center more accessible to the handicapped, etc. And why does Mr. McCarthy want a CDBG contribution to the incubator of $115,000 every year FOR 20 YEARS? Whether it’s the downtown Nugget Project or some component in it like the incubator, issues keep surfacing that create more questions. Carson City taxpayers deserve answers. Not just vague references to “saving the town from extinction” or “trust us.”
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