Special Bd. of Aldermen — 11/26/2018 Page 9
Mayor Donchess
The City Attorneys are fine.
Mr. Teeboom They said fine?
Mayor Donchess
Yes.
Mr. Teeboom Well | needed to ask you because | am convinced. | am not your legal counsel.
Mayor Donchess
The vote was only advisory | mean it wasn’t a binding vote. The vote went to the people it was kind of what do
you think?
Mr. Teeboom It says authorize, no, no, no. | have a copy of it right in front of me, it doesn’t say advisory, it
says authorizing the Mayor and the City to issue bonds. Authorizing the Mayor and the City to issue bonds not
to exceed the amount of $15,500,000.00, it is not advisory.
Mayor Donchess
The Board of Aldermen in a City are the only ones that can authorize a bond issue.
Mr. Teeboom Anyway let’s go on, I’ve raised this issue, I’d like your legal advisor.
Mayor Donchess
Now Mr. Teeboom, | appreciate your coming to all of the architectural interviews and you’ve shown great
interest in the project and | appreciate that.
Mr. Teeboom | don’t want to get stopped, it won’t be me, | already have a law suit against the City, that’s
already in the Supreme Court.
Mayor Donchess
We don’t need another one.
Mr. Teeboom Somebody else could, somebody else could stop it easily done. At least easily brought to
court. It does raise an issue that I’ve had a problem with this Board and the previous Board and maybe the
Board before that. That is you approve resolutions without really having done the due diligence of figuring out
the cost. If all the resolutions should get done after everything else is established, the final step. As an
example, when we did the Broad Street Parkway, debated for years, | sponsored the bond resolution for the
Broad Street Parkway, | personally did. | was the tenth vote, | took a lot of grief on it, but | did it only after we
have very detailed cost studies and options. In fact, | put the options in the bond resolution, option 1 and option
2, you may recall, very detailed. Now you say well we should have written it differently, we should have
thought through this whole charitable thing. It wasn’t thought through. And know that it happened through the
previous board when they voted it down, you didn’t get the 10 votes that you need, and Clemmons raised his
hand and said, “I want to for a referendum” and somebody else stuck in the $4 million, | think that was done on
the floor, on the floor, somebody says, “$4 million bucks”. They didn’t have any rational, no thought. Great
let’s vote that one. Now let’s put it before the voters, great let’s do that one. No thought at all, that is not how
you do bond resolutions.
