Tina Forsberg on GPAC

"From the first "feasibility study,"
Durham's median household income (w/in a 65 mile radius)
is almost 20% higher than Greensboro's
and they have almost double the population within that same radius
from which to pull event-goers.

...hotel/user tax will not pay this tab.

I am told by several GPAC cte leaders and members
that they cannot raise sufficient private donations.

That leaves taxpayers to pick up the tab and they're already over-extended.

...People and businesses haven't left GSO b/c the arts aren't up to snuff.

They've left b/c of global competition
and b/c the GSO tax-infrastructure-labor-education calculus
is no longer adding up.

People are moving to where the jobs are, not to where the best PACs are.

If/when the basics begin to make sense again,
"nice-to-haves" like PACs can be reconsidered
as an *enhancement* to an otherwise well-rounded, functioning business economy.

...I resent being strong-arm-"marketed" by this Council and Committee
when, for the first time I can recall on such an issue,
there is unified, informed, vocal, *bipartisan* opposition to this project at this time.

From the actions at City Hall,
there seems to be no concern for the citizens they supposedly serve."

Tina Forsberg