After a brief discussion, the question was called. Terry, Renaud, O'Hare, and Cordwell voted for the Terry/Renaud budget; Stevens, Clarke and Collins voted against. Collins said he saw no need for an assessment increase. Yet again OPA president Stevens was shot down by a member of his own supposed majority, and this time on what is arguably the most important vote the board makes each year.

It seems the budget still contains a provision to take $45,000 or so of Beach Club parking profit and assign it to the Aquatics budget to offset increasing losses there. Creative accounting desired by the GM. The budget also provides for a capital expenditure of $500,000 for a new police station, but there are no final or even preliminary plans for the structure.

Very interesting report, Joe, particularly for those of us who refuse to suffer through one of those meetings.

It appears to me that Mr Stevens may be an inveterate ditherer. This is an attribute that will not serve him well as Chairman.

Mr Terry OTOH seems to grasp the fact that it is the fellow with a PLAN who seizes the moment and usually prevails over the hemmers and hawwers.

It would be nice to know how Terrry's plan B differers from Plan A but  I guess you didn't have the space for that.

As for the 500K police station.

This little beauracracy (can't spell that word-mental block) which IMHO is not even needed just continues to grow and grow.

Let us be thankful that OPPD salaries are so low that after a few years our budding Barney Fifes moves on to better paying departments elsewhere and we are spared the pension costs that are bankrupting cities across America.

Here is a novel thought. Why not lease a new HQ? Get it off our balance sheet and just rent one of the vacant properties in the same shopping center DiNovas is. I assume Walgreens will close once the new one on 589 is ready.