Big action yesterday for the Utah Inland Port Authority. UIPA Board and Salt Lake City Council vote same day to approve Authorizing the SLC Mayor to execute the Interlocal Agreement between the City, the Redevelopment Agency, and the Utah Inland Port Authority. #utpol #utleg
BIG WIN if Mayor Mendenhall and Exec Director Ben Hart get the Health Impact Assessment, Traffic Assessment, and Community Impact Assessment completed by 12/31/23. Big nail in the coffins of their careers if they waffle too much along the way.
Kudos to SLC Council and lawyers. Each seems genuinely committed to their districts and the process. They are also gaslit repeating the port is getting built anyways. The port is getting built because the #utleg is subsidizing it to the tune of $40 million to date.
The new more “businesslike” UIPA Board is a lot better at smooth talking, but no more businesslike and just as crony. Chair Hansen has a silver tongue and wants to erase the corruption of the past 5 yrs and start fresh. Then give the taxpayers back their $40 million.
VC Hemmert is a yes man with no business in the business of supply chain logistics engineering or the science of port pollution impacts on humans and nature. Osborne a yes woman with the same no business in the business. Utah Transportation Coalition is not a real thing.
Rep. Schultz loves money and power. He pretends the money comes from some mysterious place and the interlocal agreement is the best way for SLC to access it. But Schultz uses his power to ram the money through the #utleg into the pockets of UIPA. Master of double speak.
Sen. Stevenson cannot make it to a board meeting on time if at all. When he gets there he is confused and discombobulated. The only poor sap in the #utleg to be associated with UIPA since its 2018 creation. An easy vote? UIPA is his political ball and chain. Sorry Jerry.
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