Thursday, February 16, 2006

Kraft vs Palmeri

Contributed by: Anonymous
Kraft 1 Palmeri 0 as AG office gives a verbal opinion in favor of the city.

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Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: admin on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 01:52 PM MST
Someone anonymously submitted a story for publication concerning a verbal comment from an attorney in the Attorney General's office. This story is not being published here because what the person did was copy and paste the entire story as it appeared online at the Oshkosh Northwestern's web site. Even though the paper and reporter, Alex Hummel, were credited, I do not believe the manner in which this was done falls within the guidelines for Fair Use - mainly because it was copied in its entirety.

If the person who submitted it would like to offer a synopsis and provide a link to the story, I will be happy to run it that way. But we have not in the past nor will we now or in the future knowingly violate Fair Use laws, infringe upon someone else's copyright or knowingly tread even closely to doing so.

- Cheryl Hentz

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 06:42 PM MST
So it sounds like the AG agreed with Warren Kraft and said the meeting was within the law. I wonder what Paul Esslinger will use as his excuse now?

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 09:03 PM MST
It was the assistant AG and we do not know what Hummel told him to get the comment,

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 16 2006 @ 09:14 PM MST
I still fail to see what negotiations were done with the developer on Tuesday. I thought the city's responsibility was a done deal.

I wish the council or staff could let the people know exactly where this project stands. There's no agreement in place, yet the negotiations on the city's committment seem to be done. A date for GROUNDBREAKING is set. How can there be a date when groundbreaking must commence and yet, there not even be an agreement in place??

From what has been leaked and discussed, it appears to me that everything is in place except the financing for the developer. Is that the case?? Does anyone know??

From the comment of some of the council members, it appears that this project is far from a done deal.

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: admin on Friday, February 17 2006 @ 06:50 AM MST
There is a huge difference between a reporter calling and asking a general type question and an investigation prompted by the filing of a formal complaint.

But in the meantime it's funny how some people want to quickly grasp this "decision" and rub people's noses in it as we've seen in a few places now, when some of those same people were unwilling to accept a formal decision on the bathroom construction bid-waiving. It was only "an opinion" then, remember?

I think before people start getting too excited or acting too arrogantly about this "news", they would be well-advised to wait for something more official. And that won't come for weeks or months following an investigation. I will respect whatever decision is ultimately handed down, but it has to be something more official than this.

- Cheryl Hentz

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 17 2006 @ 07:26 AM MST
An excuse from what?

Kraft vs Palmeri
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 17 2006 @ 11:45 AM MST
We'll see how this deal progresses, but I don't have a very good feeling about how this is going. I give it a 50/50 chance at this point.

Has anyone looked at the viability of owning one of these "condos" as an investment property? Who would purchase these? Minimum $105K (from their website..."pre-construction pricing from $105,000) for a 376 square foot hotel room. Unless you're planning on living there, or using it for several weeks per year, I don't see how this would be a good investment.

Considering that $35 to $40 million will be raised (my guess...312 condos @ ?) by the sale of the individual condos, wouldn't you think that you would be seeing more marketing to determine the ability to sell these things? Maybe that's happening somewhere else, but like a lot of things regarding that project, who knows?