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Yes, as Lindaonline notes, City Hall continues its 'shoot first ask after' approach to 'planning' . Its folk make super-professional salaries for non- (or even anti-) professional approaches to their work. If the City Council had a clue, they would fire Pat West for permitting this sort of sleaze anti-planning so-called 'budgeting'.
Apparently the District's reporter now believes that Foster's bond proposal (whatever and wherever it actually and specifically is at the moment) actually earmarks money for a new main library. Maybe not enough money, but that's missing the real irony.
Namely, there's no legally guaranteed connection between Foster's bonds and the proposed parcel tax. The actual legal lingo of the parcel tax proposal merely restricts the tax money to certain broad kinds of uses labeled 'infrastructure', but contains no commitment to use the money for any specific projects or in any specific amounts or mechanism, let alone to repay bonds, or indeed to finance Foster's bond proposal or his projects.