Pima County’s Most Interesting Man: Sunday’s Comic

From Supervisor Ally Miller’s website:

Constituent at Pima County Board of Supervisors’ meeting delivers plea to help the community save the historic Golden Pins Bowling Alley–a central gathering place for residents. “I get the feeling I’m just being ignored.”

From the ADI:

Proposition 463: Pima County Proposes Ponzi Scheme

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry is asking the public to approve yet one more bond package, Proposition 463, despite the fact that under his management, the County has bonds it cannot afford to use. As a result, there has been wide-spread speculation that the latest bond request before voters is really little more than a Ponzi Scheme.

Ponzi Scheme
noun

A form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

A Ponzi scheme is able to maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as there continues to be new investors willing to contribute new funds and most of the investors do not demand full repayment and are willing to believe in the non-existent assets that they are purported to own.

In November 1997, Pima County voters approved $350 million in Highway User Revenue Fund (HURF) bonds, to be repaid with a portion of the County’s share of HURF revenues from the State, to widen and rebuild roadways throughout Pima County and within cities and towns. Today, a full 18 percent ($62.4 million) of the bonds remain unused as over 70 percent of the roads fell into “poor” or ‘failed” condition.

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