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Message: [QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 910652, member: 1091"] My comments weren't directed at you sorry if you thought so. Mayor Minor correctly involved probably all of the political constituencies & stakeholders necessary to be involved to take credit for if the dang thing if it is ever built. It's obvious political - Minor actually did a better job at bringing them all together than Mahoney did (and I am a huge fan of Joannie by the way) - and many politicians appointed won't do a damn thing either which is why it irks so many on this Board. However, you gotta get the politics out of the way first - it's just how it is done here in NY unfortunately. Like I said before, this all came about with the announcement to rebuild I-81 so new stadium traffic would be taken into consideration and paid for by the DOT when they redo the highway. That is the potential avoidable cost that everyone is trying to get the Fed DOT to pay for otherwise it would add many millions to the stadium project if the stadium is built later. If I-81 wasn't a factor, SU would have just kept improving the Dome for its remaining useful life. The secret drawings were contracted for shortly after the announcement was made by the way. Finally Minor did know about this beforehand as many her staff knew about it for quite some time. What she didn't know about was Cuomo throwing the $200 million at the last minute during this years budget process. It was Cuomo's way at getting back at Minor for challenging him on kicking the can down the road regarding public employee retirement funding that had become dangerously close to being underwater that would have forced municipalities across the state to raise taxes dramatically. The only reason Cuomo was able to proclaim $200 million for a stadium as that was money earmarked for pension funding this past year wasn't needed because of the 25-30% gains in the stock market last year bringing public employee pension funding back to a safe margin. Minor when she cried foul over a year ago didn't foresee 30% gains in 2013 and you don't hear her complaining much about it lately. Public pension funding is a ticking time bomb just watch what happens when the stock market goes down again... [/QUOTE]

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