Carmel reader asks two questions of City Council

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Dear Editor:

Once again, the president of the Carmel City Council publicly evades the two issues a citizen raised at the council meeting two weeks ago:

  1. What has or is the Council doing to enforce guarantees provided by a developer who promised five buildings would be built by 2019, and none are built?
  2. What documentation can the Council provide to give evidence of its enforcing the guarantees?

Instead, the Council president fills the bandwidth with minutiae – bond amounts, bond payments, payments due, actual and anticipated payments and the arcane workings of Payments In Addition To Taxes (PIATT).

With re-election staring him in the face, the councilor might wish to be a little more candid. (Unless his council has done nothing or can’t prove it did nothing.)

It would help us all a lot.

Bill Shaffer

Carmel