Good lord, in the column of “it’s never going to end is it?” the Alameda Magazine is running a sympathetic piece on the plight of the Carnegie Innovation Hall’s implosion.
Highlights:
Sturtz laid the blame for his withdrawal with Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft and city council members who, in September, after he’d had five months of negotiations with city staffers, required insurance and added a project labor agreement to the lease agreement.
Five months of negotiations with City Staff, not with the City Council. Last I checked, it takes a super majority of four to approve a lease of City property. It’s a shame that the CIH folks didn’t know that otherwise maybe they would have been more prepared for the actual process of working with the City. I mean, I’ve seen second story additions on private homes take longer than five months, so I’m not really sure if this is supposed to make us feel sympathetic to CIH.