By Curmudgeon
The deed has been done. The Standard-Examiner reports this morning that the council last night, by a vote of 4-2, approved the transfer of the parking garage.
OGDEN — By a 4-2 vote, the Ogden Redevelopment Agency board agreed Tuesday night to give a $3.3 million parking garage at 2430 Kiesel Ave. to a company so Market-Star Corp. can expand.One no vote was Ms. Jeske's who said, reasonably, that the Council had not had a chance to look into the matter carefully. She was not necessarily opposed to the transfer, but thought the Council should take the time to do "due diligence" before approving it.
The RDA board is made up of the Ogden City Council.
City council members Dorrene Jeske and Amy Wicks were the only RDA board members to vote against conveying the parking garage to Ogden-Wasatch Properties LLC, which owns the Market-Star building at 2475 Washington Blvd.
Seemed a reasonable stand to me. The transfer may in fact have been a wise move, but asking the Council to rush to judgment inevitably raises some suspicions.
