Uptown loses battle to keep secrets
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The unelected bureaucrats of Uptown promised you transparency on that controversial $300 million dollar bus project. They lied.
For months, they have fought release of records detailing who they are buying land from and how much they are paying, even though we know some Uptown officials are the ones who will get richer if Post Oak Boulevard is torn up and widened. At their public meetings they have hidden the name of the companies selling real estate. City Hall has ignored the conflicts of interest.
Now, the Texas Attorney General has ruled Uptown must release the real estate contracts they have already approved.
The general counsel of Uptown will release the contracts, but promises to redact how much taxpayer money has been paid. Dolcefino Consulting has told Uptown that is unacceptable. Uptown says it may now sue the Texas Attorney General to keep the prices and appraisals secret.
What a model of transparency!
“The public deserves to see who these deals are being made with, period,” says Jim Scarborough of the Uptown Property Owners Association. “We have repeatedly called for the Chairman of Uptown and the top executive to resign over this blatant misuse of public funds for a bus project that isn’t need or wanted.”
Metro has scheduled a special board meeting for November 15th, and will update the Uptown project. In the coming days, Dolcefino Consulting will document the growing evidence it is not necessary to tear up Post Oak and destroy businesses to make a few guys rich.
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