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Bountiful City Development - Do they know what they are doing?

Bountiful City is currently focusing on redeveloping the downtown on Main Street.  This has been the mantra for this city since the 1970s and before.  It never ceases to amaze us that they try and fail so many times.  They have also been working on redevelopment on the south end of Main at the old Five Points Shopping Center (Now the Renaissance) and the old J.C. Penny building on the north end of Main (now who knows what other than Arctic Circle).    It is funny when you go to the Bountiful City website and try to look at the minutes from the Redevelopment Agency (see www.bountifulutah.gov/MeetingsMinutes/RDAMinutesSelect.aspx).  There are no minutes.  Is this because there is nothing being done....  One would think that with the highly-paid staff leaders at Bountiful City that we have that we would have some exceptional expertise to figure this out....

Yet when one looks to the west on 500 west, in our sister city of West Bountiful, development is booming.  Why hasn't our city planning folks built upon the huge momentum down there and encouraged large development across the street to the east in Bountiful City???  You can almost hear the sucking sound of tax dollars flowing out of the pockets of Bountiful City residents into West Bountiful's coffers.  Costco's parking lot is always full.  The new eateries such as Applebees are always so busy, with at least an hour's wait at dinner time.

Is it not time to clean the house?  We should be hiring kids with degrees out of college to perform this work who have ideas and new methodologies.  We should not be paying these staff leaders the $100K salaries that we do.  When these staff leaders have been there awhile, and want to make more money, we need to encourage them to go to the big cities, and bring in more new kids out of college to run this city.  We are not Salt Lake City...nor do we want to be....but we do need to do more with less and to work smarter than what we are doing.  We should be turning over City Managers about every 4-6 years.  Bountiful's City Manager, Tom Hardy,  has been there for 25+ years now.

What do you think?

Print | posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 8:40 PM

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