It eases the sticker shock to know that all but $151,000 will come from the sales commissions rather than from taxpayers, but $3.9 million still seems like a lot to pay a Cleveland consultant to secure naming rights and sponsorships for the downtown arena. And Sedgwick County Commissioner Tim Norton had it right when he suggested it doesn’t take an out-of-town expert to know which local “big players” are most likely to want their names on the building. In any case, the pressure is now on Superlative Group to live up to its name — and on the local business community to answer voters’ show of support with some buy-in of its own.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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I didn’t see the newspaper article, if there was one, explaining this situation. So could someone please explain the mathematics of where this $3,749,000 is coming from, if not from the taxpayers? It’s my observation that here in Wichita, if money can be washed one step away from government and the taxpayers, it is claimed to be from “private sources.”
Out-of-town consultanships . . . the biggest scam going. Use millions of taxpayer dollars to re-affirm what the politicians wanted to do anyway.
Of if not, just ignore them . . .