Baseball in the Bottom: Mayor Jones, Where Is That Report?

Apparently, the consultants' report analyzing Highwoods Properties' financial projections for Shockoe Center, a/k/a the Shockoe Bottom baseball stadium and ancillary, related development, was to have been provided to the Jones administration as of Monday, May 4, 2009.  This was in a teensy tiny blurb on the front page of the Richmond Times Dispatch Monday paper, so it may or may not be accurate.  But here's one citizen who would really like the Jones administration to release it ASAP.  How's about posting it on a City website or otherwise?  Then everyone can read it and reach their own conclusions based on the data contained in the report.  Just an idea.

Comments

[Paul Hammond]

I wouldn't call it harassment, but I would call for a little patience on everybody's part.

[F.T. Rea]

Melissa, of course anyone who has been following this story about the study is curious to see what it says, even though it may not change many minds.

At this point I don't see any reason for Jones to sit on the results, except that he might want a couple of days to decide what he wants to say about it.

However, once we, too, have seen the report, reasons for the delay might become more clear.

If it still hasn't been released before that May 12 forum, then it will suggest to some that something fishy is going on.

[Melissa Loughridge Savenko]

Well, www.dictionary.com is pretty easy, just a google away. The beauty of the English language is the overlay of specific connotations on particular words, like "harass." [;)]

I posted about the consultant's report separately because I realized my initial reference to that report might get "lost," buried in a note to a longer blog post, at the end. There was no malicious intent or agenda. I just think the report, and whatever it says, is important enough to warrant gentle encouragement of its quick release, especially in light of the May 12 Public Forum. That is all.

Mayor Jones, if you read this, no disrepect intended. And certainly no tormenting, ridiculing, harassing, or pestering. Just a respectful request to release the report, and let the facts and analysis speak for themselves.

Best, MLS

[FanGuy]

I honestly can't believe you went to the dictionary for that response. But, since you did, I would say that posting about it two days in a row when you don't even know if the report was sent to the Mayor yet would border on harassment, in the loose sense.

[Melissa Loughridge Savenko]

Hmmm...I re-read my post, and I didn't take the tone to be harassing, nor did I intend it to be.

Maybe we have different definitions of "harass," you and I? My dictionary says: "to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; ridicule."

I should certainly hope Mayor Jones wouldn't take one very straightforward request as harassment.

I would characterize my tone as respectfully requesting; asking; cajoling; perhaps even pleading. But not harassing.

But again, perhaps your dictionary is a bit different than mine. And next time I make a request of the City or the administration - I STILL haven't heard back from Rachael Flynn on that "Most Significant and Endangered Buildings" Committee" idea post-Eggleston Hotel collapse - perhaps I shall try to make my tone ever-so-obsequious, so it is quite clear I mean no affront.

Thanks, as always, for your comment.

[FanGuy]

Let me get this straight -- you are harassing Mayor Jones to release a report that you admit he may not even have yet? Um, ok.