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CoMo MAYOR CONFRONTS CITY MANAGER: Treece angry over Matthes interference with TIF Commission

CoMo MAYOR CONFRONTS CITY MANAGER: Treece angry over Matthes interference with TIF Commission

"Very unusual shenanigans"

COLU MBIA, Mo  10/19/17 (Beat Byte) -- The nomination of a prominent attorney to a taxpayer subsidy commission prompted Columbia Mayor Brian Treece (photo) Monday night to call out Broadway Hotel developer Dave Parmley and city manager Mike Matthes over their interference with the process. 

At the City Council's regular meeting, Treece nominated Jeremy Root to the TIF Commission charged with recommending the Council  approve or deny so-called "tax increment financing" or TIF. 

To expand the hotel, Parmley has applied for a $2.1 million TIF .  If approved, it would bring his total taxpayer subsidy to $5.4 million after a 2011 TIF.    

Root represented plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Opus Group, developers of a new student apartment that occupies an entire city block downtown.  M...

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IN THE DARK: Murk surrounds City Hall's Broadway Hotel TIF consultant

IN THE DARK: Murk surrounds City Hall's Broadway Hotel TIF consultant

TIF developer paying city representative $75/hour

COLU MBIA, Mo  10/11/17 (Beat Byte) -- More questions are surfacing about a former city administrator representing the City of Columbia during the Broadway Hotel's TIF approval process. 

The city's representative, retired deputy city manager Tony St. Romaine , has emerged as a TIF promoter with few constraints and no known guidelines from city manager Mike Matthes , who personally hired him. 

To expand the hotel, owner Dave Parmley has applied for a $2.1 million tax increment financing package.  If approved, it would bring his total taxpayer subsidy to $5.4 million after a 2011 TIF.    

For $75/hour, St. Romaine sits at the City Council staff table he formerly occupied , explaining PowerPoint slides, legal requirements, and fielding questions from Council and...

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HICKMAN GUNMAN: Out of jail on bail for DIFFERENT gun crime!

HICKMAN GUNMAN: Out of jail on bail for DIFFERENT gun crime!

Gun control -- or judge control? 

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/7/17 (Beat Byte) -- One of two men who twice entered Columbia's Hickman High School campus with prescription drugs and loaded guns Monday was out on bail over a firearms charge in another county. 

Warren County Judge Richard Scheibe allowed Hickman gunman Jamel Tackett , 18, to bond out of jail in May with an accomplice in a Warrenton home invasion robbery, De'Aunte Shaw , also 18 and a convicted felon serving a "suspended" four-year sentence.

The cases illustrate a chronic failure of criminal courts to keep violent offenders off the street. 

Arrested in Warrenton with Shaw and two other suspects May 17 for possession of stolen firearms connected with the home invasion, Tackett twice trespassed on the Hickman campus Monday carrying guns and alprazolam (Xa...

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GUNMEN AT HICKMAN: High school trespassers detained, arrested after weapons found

GUNMEN AT HICKMAN: High school trespassers detained, arrested after weapons found

"I take this incident very seriously" 

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/2/17 (Beat Byte) -- The same day a gunman terrorized Las Vegas and rocked the nation , Columbia's Hickman High School had its own problems with not one, but two gun-toting intruders.

Two men entered the Hickman campus from Providence Rd. during the "second lunch period," principal Tony Gragnani emailed parents today at around 6 pm.  

"While detained, a search was conducted, which revealed that the two men were in possession of firearms ," Gragnani explained.  "The two men were subsequently placed under arrest."

The men entered the campus twice, but did not enter the building.  

The first time, "they were immediately flagged by Hickman faculty as non-students," Gragnani said.   Security officers -- aka "school resource officers" -- asked the men to lea...

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'APPALLING': CoMo city manager, consultant 'inappropriately' backing hotel TIF, city leader says

'APPALLING': CoMo city manager, consultant 'inappropriately' backing hotel TIF, city leader says

"I am appalled"  

COLU MBIA, Mo  10/4/17 (Beat Byte) -...
HISTORIC: CoMo City Council rejects biggest rate hike, demands financial accountability

HISTORIC: CoMo City Council rejects biggest rate hike, demands financial accountability

Pushing back on a bad deal  

COLU MBIA, Mo  9/21/17 ...
CRAPPER CASH: CoMo City manager seeks 6% to 20% sewer fee hikes

CRAPPER CASH: CoMo City manager seeks 6% to 20% sewer fee hikes

Talk about a royal flush!  

COLU MBIA, Mo  9/18/17 (...
TRASHING YOUR BUDGET: CoMo City Hall raising garbage rates for 4th time in 4 years

TRASHING YOUR BUDGET: CoMo City Hall raising garbage rates for 4th time in 4 years

Another Daily Rate Hike report

COLU MBIA, Mo  9/15/1...
CoMo PINOCCHIO: Is Matthes telling truth about falling sales taxes?

CoMo PINOCCHIO: Is Matthes telling truth about falling sales taxes?

The fibber-in-chief

COLUMBIA, Mo 9/7/17 (Beat Byte)...
CITY HALL SWISS BANK ACCOUNT: Grows $184 million in 19 years

CITY HALL SWISS BANK ACCOUNT: Grows $184 million in 19 years


"WTH is going on?" 

COLU MBIA, Mo  9/11/17 (Beat Byt...
POWER BILL SHOCKER: CoMo electric rates to rise one to 8.5 percent

POWER BILL SHOCKER: CoMo electric rates to rise one to 8.5 percent

Big hits for renters, homeowners. Big breaks for b...
SWISS BANK CONTROVERSY: Roils CoMo City Council, city manager

SWISS BANK CONTROVERSY: Roils CoMo City Council, city manager

A brewing City Charter Crisis?

COLUMBIA, Mo 9/3/17 ...

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