The records says otherwise when you consider not a single person spoke in favor of another urban renewal agency in Nampa after the foul taste in everyone's mouth over the Idaho Center disaster. (Citizens voted to take that agency down.) What they did not realize is, URA money kept flowing to a "secret account" and it kept the red ink to a minimum at the Idaho Center.
Mayor Dale and his rubber stamp city council (except for Mr. Kren) went through the motions of a public hearing and after the 15 day waiting period City Council members of Nampa approved the current Urban Renewal Agency ( NDC ). Again, not a single person spoke in favor of financing the police building nor the library with out a vote of the people.
Tom Dale and his hand picked NDC Board members went full speed ahead without a vote of the
Nampa citizens gave their approval in a bond election for the GO Bond election and even the naysayers on urban renewal helped to get $38 MM in general obligation bods approved with the full faith and credit of the people of Nampa. Urban Renewal did not seek the approval of Nampa citizens and Mayor Dale saying the people of Nampa came together and agreed on the police and library projects is a pure untruth when the facts of the situation are researched.
Mayor Dale and his rubber stamp city council went back and captured foregone property taxes and hit Nampa property owners with a whopping 5% increase in the middle of a recession several years ago. His memory of this seems to have faded and THE GUARDIAN is pleased to remind him of this event. His attitude was a gimme the money and I don't care how much the Great Recession hit folks in Nampa. He kept the wheels of Nampa city government will oiled while taxpayers had to come up with more cash. ( City and County budgets are allowed by law to increase at a rate of 3% each year on top of all the new growth taxation going to the city and URA budgets.)
Mayor Dale does not deserve to represent the people of Canyon County as a Commissioner as he does not listen to those he gleefully sticks with paying the bills for projects that would never pass muster with voters.
Sounds like typical Team Tom all hat and no cattle to me. The continued deception never ceases to amaze me. That so called sprinkler business of his that he had in the mid 90's is built up also. From my memory it seems as if he was subletting his labor services to local sprinkler contactors in Nampa at that time for chump change. Doesn't sound like a sprinkler business, does it. Now that Team Tom is in the party politics, they better watch out with the Pinnochio style resume.
ReplyDeleteNo question Tom Dales has his supporters but they want to believe Tom was capable of "magic" in the way he financed big ticket projects with urban renewal property taxation. Now more people than ever have come to understand there is no "magic" and it is nothing but a huge tax shift causing higher taxes for everyone. He could have done his projects with Govt. Obligation or GO bonds but that might have cause all the people who support a project to get off their cushy chairs and sell the projects to the public. It is possible for this to work if you look back of the $38 million raised for the overpass and other public works projects that bond ELECTION paid for.
ReplyDeleteSorry Tom no vote from me or any of my family members. You are a nice enough guy but what you have done to Nampa taxpayers does not need to happen to county taxpayers.
I think Mr. Dale has been telling the same stories and getting away with it for so long that even he is starting to believe them. Its a sad comment on the state of our so called news media that they don't call him and others on these so called facts. This valley would be a great place for a newspaper and maybe even a television or radio station that provided real news. Hopefully someone might start one.
ReplyDeleteThere is an older gentleman in our coffee bunch that has kept his eye on old Tom since the early 80's. Tom is a showman, actor, and a performer. Those are his skills. He is always looking for someone to buy into his act. It is time for his "As the Nose Grows" soap opera to come to an end.
DeleteLet's not forget Mr. Dale had plans to build a brand spanking new city hall complex in downtown Nampa with taxpayer dollars and no vote of the people. Mr. Dale is a great spender of our money and all we can do is hope enough people do not support him as a county commissioner.
ReplyDeleteHe has already come out in support of spending millions on a new jail with no discussion on how it will be staffed and maintained. He will finagle his way through the legal maze without a vote on this and we will all be strapped with a huge debt for a new jail we don't need.
Mr. Dale is just like most politicians; the go in with some good ideas and tend to do some positive things in their first term but then they realize they like the power and ability to spend money on big dollar projects and it becomes addictive. That's when they forget where they came from and who put them into their respective office. It becomes getting elected again over what is right for the taxpayers. Mr. Dale strikes me as someone who got addicted to money, power and position and has not made a good transition back to the reality most folks live in every day. It would be a huge mistake to put Tom Dale in as a commissioner.
ReplyDeleteThe gentleman in our coffee bunch tells us that his positions with the City of Nampa were his only real jobs that he has ever had. You are right, sure he likes the easy gravy. He got it taken away from him last November. At his age he can't get a real job. He wants to get in there and get his gravy back. Let's make sure he doesn't.
DeleteCanyon county taxpayers do not need Tom Dale to screw up the county, Rule and Alder are doing a great job of it!
ReplyDeleteWell, Team Tom and Company finagled their way to another victory. Most likely he will be the winner in November. It was sad to see that the other political parties did not have any candidates. He will not be the ruler of the roost over in the County. Hopefully the other two in the Commission will see him as noise that just needs to be dealt with.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Rule is such a lunckhead that Dale will have him doing short order drill on Albany Street in a matter of months!
DeleteTom is probably good in a marching band. I see him doing guard duty outside of the meeting room.
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