Heyward Robinson, Richard Cline and Kelly Fergusson are typical liberals. They are always generous with the taxpayers' money. And they certainly doesn't have even the slightest inkling of what project management is. You don't need to blow $250K.

But Heyward, Richard and Kelly do not understand that you don't have to spend a lot of green to be green. You just make the LEED criteria part of the construction contract and have one of our own building inspectors validate that the construction meets or exceeds the LEED criteria at each project milestone under the milestone payment plan.

Satisfaction of the LEED requirements is essential to satisfying the milestone exit criteria. If the milestone is not complete the builder does not get paid.

The City Council has the right to require that the LEED criteria be satisfied for city funded projects. But Kelly Fergusson is going down a intrusive path when she suggests that private developers be required to do the same for private projects. I believe that developers should be encouraged to build green buildings and that they be required to disclose to the buyer whether LEED requirements have been met. But at the end of the day these costs will be passed throught to the buyer. The Developer should inform the buyer what the extra cost of the Green building and the buyer should make the decision as to whether to authorize the developer to spend the additional money to be LEED compliant.

Do you remember when City Council members were public servants working to make our lives easier and not making our lives more difficult. Liberals have this condescending attitude that they know what is best for us and we should be so grateful that we have them to provide direction in our otherwise misinformed and chaotic lives.

Thank you big brother.

Hank,

See Henry Riggs' Op Ed from 8/5/09 Almanac.

I believe you are a fan on Henry's, who is certainly not the "typical liberal." Mr. Riggs' analysis is right on. Plus, he knows about the subject much more deeply than most of us, as he is both an architect and a Planning Commissioner.

Though I don't agree with Henry on everything, I an beginning to believe he should run for Council as a thoughtful person who could get support from more than just "one side" or "the other." Perhaps Mr Riggs' could help our City elevate the level of debates far above the much lower level at which it seems to be stuck here in Town Square.

Hank "The Man" Lawrence:
"Liberals have this condescending attitude that they know what is best for us and we should be so grateful that we have them to provide direction in our otherwise misinformed and chaotic lives."

You almost got it right there, Hank - you just need to put your name in place of "liberals" and it's perfect!