Farmer Music Center Presentation to City Council (undated)

Farmer_Music_Center ppt to City Council (undated)

Apparently, this is the all the information that was presented to the city council concerning the $8 million subsidy request for the Farmer Music Center. The document is undated but presumably it was presented before the city council voted to include the subsidy in the FY27 budget.

I made a public records request for information the city council members relied on in their due diligence about the project. This is all the city disclosed – an 8-page powerpoint.

In a city council meeting, 5 council members voiced their support for the project citing projections about the positive economic benefits to the city and the return on investment the city would realize for our $8 million. So, I requested to see the analysis they were relying on to make those claims. This powerpoint deck is all I received.

The CSO and MEMI are asking the city to invest $8 million in the Farmer Music Center but they provided the city council with nothing more than a “pitch deck” not an investors’ prospectus, which the city should absolutely require, at a minimum.

Links to the presentation and to my records request are provided above.

By the way, it took the city 5 weeks to provide an 8-page powerpoint presentation. Unacceptable.