Sheet Survey: What should the Town do now that it owes more than $30 million?
“Reevaluate the staff. There’s people that work for the Town that make way too much money.” - Chris Allen
“ I would work as hard as I could to pay it off. I definitely wouldn’t ask for any loans.” - Gloria Toledo
“I’d say run to the hills, but we’re already there.” - Jen Wenieger
“Open a Town-owned pot dispensary, or get an NFL team. It wouldn’t hurt. Green Bay did it.” - Nathan Wray
“I figured they had planned for this and had put that money away. At this point tax marijuana, it’s a start.” - Sam Mata
“Set up a lemonade stand down by the 203 exit ramp.” - Taylor Strawn
“I’d get a slice of that Obama cake. Get that bailout money, everyone else did.” - Trevor Stevenson
“ I would just settle with Hot Creek. I would not file bankruptcy.” - Shannon Freeman
Use the Vallejo BK as a model to negotiate settlements with Hot Creek and Hugelman. After BK, Vallejo is paying 5%-20% on the dollar. Fine. Tell Hot Creek we will pay &6M, painful but affordable if spread over say 10 years. Hugelman gets $60K and he has to drop his “invasion of privacy” lawsuit and find another job. Or, they can sit around for a few years as ML drags through BK and maybe get only 5% at the end, which would be $1.5M for Hot Creek and $15K for Hugelman.
And while we’re at it, let’s knock off the baby talk about adding head count to Town agencies. We need to focus like adults on righting the ship, not sit around under the Christmas Tree demanding more presents like children. And if certain agencies insist they cannot do their jobs then we need to think outside the box and consider outsourcing. There is no reason in principle that a private non-union security firm could not favorably compete with a unionized government shop.