The 16-point "memorandum of understanding" between the Borough and the CDC had been the result of weeks of negotiations involving, at various times, Cassidy, CDC president Manny DeMutis and CDC board members, DiGirolomo, Council president John Messina (D-North) and a select group of members of Council, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
The terms of the agreement, according to those same sources, were proposed by Messina, transcribed by DeMutis, and then circulated among Council members Henry Wagner (D-Middle), Carlos Ciruelos (D-East), Tim Daly (D-Middle), Rich Kirkner (D-North) and Dave Gill (D-West). With a single last-minute clarification, the agreement as transcribed stood.
—G. E. Lawrence in The Phoenix, May 12, 2007
Fast Forward to August 2007--
Now, all of a sudden, the Council and CDC Board are meeting in public to discuss this issue because the 'agreement' either didn't exist (Messina) or was 'repugnant' (Kirkner). Only Daly actually cops a plea: he thought 'we had this handled.'
What is really repugnant are the flat-out lies by those other Council Members involved in this travesty, coupled with the complicity of the CDC in a back-room deal that everyone should have known was plainly illegal.
It's the Sunshine Law, stupid!
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I wouldn't trust Messina as far as I could throw him - with or without his rug. He's spent the last few years lying to everyone's face.
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