Municipal Auditorium To Get Facelift

A couple of years ago, our city had a mayor and a city manager who believed that our community wasn’t making progress unless they were spending the taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars on baseball fields, performing arts centers and neon-lighted guitars in the warehouse district, just to name a few of their hair-brained ideas.

The mayor, who was possibly the most evil person I have ever known and had a hard time telling the truth, was ousted from office because of his free-spending ways and the city manager, who flaps around in the political wind like a piece of tissue paper, got a mayor who brought her under control (although he should have asked the council to fire her).

The evil mayor and wild-haired city manager concocted a plan that would have resulted in demolishing the Municipal Auditorium so that the city could spend millions to build an arts center. The new arts center, the evil mayor would say, would attract untold numbers of tourists to our vibrant arts community.

Despite the soon-to-be ousted evil mayor’s plan, Lubbock citizens, who the mayor insinuated didn’t know what was good for them, revolted against the extravagant ideas, ultimately running him out of office.

Now comes the current mayor who has reminded city staff that the voters approved more than $4 million in bond money several years ago to repair and remodel the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium. The mayor told KCBD NewsChannel 11 recently (http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=12550127) that the time has come to move forward with the wishes of the voters.

I wonder how much money the evil mayor and the current city manager could have saved a couple of years ago if they had just done what the voters had instructed instead of moving forward with the many multimillion dollar issues that city staff, under the direction of the manager, dreamed up?