So it appears that the first actual thing the Utah Inland Port Authority is building is a truck parking lot. Tax dollars at work. 😐 #utpol
The *new* Utah Inland Port Authority Strategic Business Plan is 10 pages long double spaced. And it’s as vague as those few words would suggest. #utpol
The Inland Port staff discuss their extremely vague new business plan and then talk about how they’re going to use metrics- except they haven’t defined what they’re measuring. #utpol
The Utah Inland Port Authority is really just a slush fund for developers.
Rep. Schultz a Utah Inland Port Authority Board member wants to build something ‘quickly’ - so what does he want to build with taxpayer $? Just ‘something’ or does he actually have an idea what that something is? #utpol
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Today at the UIPA Board mtg we learn former ED Jack Hedge is leaving. Here's the Stop the Polluting Port Coalition's statement: The Failed Utah Inland Port Authority is a waste of taxpayer money and should be dissolved before more harm is done.
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The idea of a Utah inland port was hastily conceived in a fog of unbridled ambition, but without a viable business model that any private company would have required. Its consequences to Salt Lake residents were never considered.
Over the 4 years of its existence the Port Authority has spent more than $40 million in taxpayer dollars.