Bond committee resists runaway Scottsdale project

By Tom Scanlon | Scottsdale Progress

Scottsdale’s Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee members individually and collectively pushed back on a proposed Fire Department training facility project, refusing to recommend that City Council use General Fund money to cover a $10 million cost overrun.

“I feel like a pawn,” Andrew Armstrong said at one point while Janice Eng later complained to city staff, “What you’re asking us to do is rubber stamp this.”

Those two and board members Mary Jane McCart, Brian Neeley and Laraine Rodgers squared off against some of the city’s highest-echelon staff, including City Engineer Alison Tymkiw, Fire Chief Tom Shannon (present but silent), Senior Assistant City Attorney Kimberly Campbell, Budget Director Judy Doyle, Finance Director Gina Kirklin and Public Works Director Dan Worth.

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