"Councilmember Wade requested that Council discuss whether the item would go on a referendum in November; that she knew of four Councilmembers that would like to discuss placement of the item on a referendum; and voiced concern for the amount of money that would be spent on the facility.
...Councilmember Vaughan confirmed that ...that the City could not guarantee that the project would not have an impact on the tax rate.
...Councilmember Wade made a motion to put a referendum on the November ballot and make sure that we designate it was for the Greensboro performing arts center; I don’t know the amount of money, it keeps changing but it is hard not to promise the public when this process started, that they would have a chance to have this on a referendum; ...then if Council felt the need to move forward with a performing arts center, then they would have an opportunity to vote on this on the ballot; Councilmember Wade continued that she thought Council promised that to the people, and we need to deliver on that promise. ...people deserve to weigh in on it, because ultimately, whatever happens, the people are going to be left paying the bill if everybody else does not come through with the funding. If people have to put in $10 million or $70 million, they still deserve the right and we promised them that in the beginning.
That is my motion and it was seconded by Councilmember Abuzuaiter.
The motion was adopted on the following roll call vote:
Ayes: Abuzuaiter, Johnson, Kee, Matheny, Perkins, Vaughan and Wade.
Noes: Bellamy-Small and Hoffmann."
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