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Consider the members of the Uptown Board of Directors.
They aren’t elected, even chosen by property owners in Uptown. Now we know they virtually appoint themselves or politicians pick them. They spend tens of millions of your tax dollars without financial disclosure.
Uptown gets to keep a lot of tax money in just one neighborhood that used to go to City Hall to be spread around to the whole city. Maybe that explains why the head Uptown guy makes more than the Mayor does.
Maybe $200 million doesn’t seem like that much money to spend on a plan to tear up Post Oak for two exclusive bus lanes, even if they aren’t needed. Maybe taxpayers shouldn’t be suspicious that some of the members of the board stand to make millions on the deal. Maybe we shouldn’t worry that the ridership projections Uptown has been using to sell the project are just plain wrong. It wasn’t until Dolcefino Consulting proved they were bogus that Metro, not Uptown agreed to check the math.
Uptown doesn’t like the stuff Dolcefino Consulting has been exposing. It is one of the reasons they have hired a big public relations firm to convince you about this bizarre bus project. And they are getting you to pay for your own convincing! The contract with Edelman was for up to $165,000 for just three months.
Want a glimpse of some of the advice you paid for? After Dolcefino Consulting exposed potential conflicts of interest, an Edelman executive suggested the increased secrecy approach.
“…We should continue to take this issues offline. Dolcefino is going individually after your board members and
requesting information already provided to find inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Let’s take things offline…”
In other words, don’t create records.
“People already think this deal smells, and now we find out that taxpayers are paying this company to tell Uptown to keep secrets from the taxpayers. I don’t know about you, but that makes me feel a lot better. NOT.”
Uptown has ignored calls to survey business owners in Uptown to see if their employees want buses. Uptown has ignored calls to delay the project until the Texas Attorney General rules if it is even legal.
“A piece of free advice to my friends in Uptown,” says Dolcefino. “Let the sunshine in.”
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