Comments on: “More Things To Do”: How the Carondelet Family YMCA Got a Sweetheart Deal in Carondelet Park with Our Tax Dollars

By: Show Me the Crisis, Francis. « notmymayor

Show Me the Crisis, Francis. « notmymayor — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:39:31 +0000

[...] property taxes earmarked to retire bonds, revenues from undemocratic lease agreements, or sales taxes for parks and other priorities. To look at the General Fund in isolation could mean missing the forest for [...]

By: Comprehensively Incomprehensible: How the PFM Report Set the Stage for Tonight’s Budget Hearing at 6:30PM « notmymayor

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:34:16 +0000

[...] Louis Board of Aldermen have only approved sales tax increases in recent years (public safety and parks). Sales tax is an Economic Activity Tax. EATs are siphoned off by developers for their own purposes [...]

By: December Unemployment Numbers Abysmal « notmymayor

December Unemployment Numbers Abysmal « notmymayor — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:03:53 +0000

[...] officials, after awarding operation of the new Carondelet Park Recreation Center to the YMCA without a competitive bi…, celebrated the opening of the new facility for residents with a high willingness to [...]

By: Priced Out: Chesterfield, Frontenac, Ladue, and Clayton Assess Lower Sales Taxes than St. Louis City « notmymayor

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:11:23 +0000

[...] some would point to City voter approval of a Public Safety sales tax and a sales tax for Parks and Recreation Centers as an explanation for our staggeringly high rate of regressive taxes. It’s hard to argue with [...]

By: Tax Increment Financing on Trial, With a Hearing on Monday: Sharon Sklarov v. St. Louis Development Corporation et al. « notmymayor

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:48:57 +0000

[...] that would be shocking to some but unsurprising for anyone with any knowledge of how Fred Wessels, Matt Villa, Kacie Starr Triplett, and Francis Slay choose to legislate. (My favorite count the in lawsuit? [...]

By: “Substandard and Obsolete”: Healthcare Reform, St. Louis Style « notmymayor

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:54:29 +0000

[...] in the back rooms of large law firms that draft our City’s legislation, we always end up footing the bill for crazy schemes that our Aldermen choose to advance in the name of “development.” [...]

By: Pride and Prejudice: Prop P Divides St. Louis by Race « notmymayor

Pride and Prejudice: Prop P Divides St. Louis by Race « notmymayor — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:13:01 +0000

[...] the O’Fallon Park Recreation Complex will open–if the sign is at all accurate–two years after the Carondelet Park Rec Plex and under an entirely separate management scheme. In addition, advertising support for a project whose regressive financing the First, Fourth, [...]

By: YMCA in Carondelet Park: Now Open, But for Whom? « notmymayor

YMCA in Carondelet Park: Now Open, But for Whom? « notmymayor — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:26:11 +0000

[...] majority female or minority white when looking at the opening day ribbon cutting tableau from the taxpayer supported Carondelet Park YMCA. That’s alright, though, since our City’s patriarchs place such a high priority on [...]

By: Let The Sun Shine In: One Week and $8.20 Later, The “Facility Operating and Cooperative Agreement” for the Carondelet Park Recreation Center « notmymayor

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:55:25 +0000

[...] we all recall, the Carondelet Park Recreation Center is a boon for the YMCA of Greater St. Louis and boondoggle [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:38:23 +0000

I have no problem with that. I’m sure the reason no one else was interested was that there is no profit to be made on this. Who would opperate this rec center at a break even, other then a not for profit.