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By Tom Scanlon | Scottsdale Progress
Providing more shade to a sun-drenched city, while utilizing our star to reduce electric costs – what could go wrong?
Plenty, according to Scottsdale Councilman Adam Kwasman.
“A shell game,” he called the plan.
Though Scottsdale City Council approved a City Hall parking lot solar shade project at just under $2 million, Mayor Lisa Borowsky joined Kwasman in hurling abuse at Scottsdale 2019 Bond Project 58.
Kwasman called it “a shell game” – not once, but twice.
Borowsky piled on with “this is a clear example of misplaced priorities and poor fiscal stewardship.” The mayor bashed the solar parking project at the Oct. 21 council meeting.
She doubled down at her town hall held the next week, piggy-backing criticism of this project with her year-long crusade against the planned multi-level parking garage at First and Brown, a half mile from City Hall.
