[Elvis]

It went so great the first two times (This came out Friday, the meeting is today at 6pm St. Louis time):

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... ml?ana=twt

Aldermen set third public meeting on stadium financing

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen’s Ways and Means Committee will meet Tuesday in north St. Louis for the third in a series of hearings designed to gather public input on a proposed $1 billion NFL stadium along St. Louis' north Mississippi riverfront.

Alderman Antonio French, a member of the committee tweeted Friday morning that the committee would meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the O’Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave. Input from the public is welcome.

The committee must send the financing bill to the full Board of Aldermen before it can be approved.
From the first committee meeting: Aldermanic Committee grills stadium proponents on financing bill

The bill would see the city contribute more than $233 million in bond payments, including interest. Further, the National Football League would receive about two-thirds of game-day tax revenue associated with the proposed stadium project. All public financing is contingent on a $450 million investment from the NFL and a team owner.

You can read the full financing plan developed by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay here.

[Hacksaw]

A meeting yesterday could barely hold a quorum. This is the last of the dog and pony showings. If somehow they Aldermen are swayed, they still can't vote until January because the non finalized bill took forever to get turned in. Even the NFL had to publicly ask them to hurry up.
So now the vote by the owners is supposed to be delayed to allow StL and SD to have their votes?
Well SD has an alternative. Perhaps not their owners first choice but an alternative. StL doesn't and caused this problem for themselves being tardy. I don't see them prevailing in this matter and from a PR standpoint, the NFL has no reason to delay things on their behalf,,, unless they just want to based on whatever their real agenda is.

[Elvis]

[Elvis]

Seems like a substantial amount of speakers at this town hall are in favor of the stadium for the jobs it will create. I think this is the argument most likely to influence Aldermen in favor of the bill...

[Hacksaw]

Those jobs are for the construction and some game day stuff. What happens after it's built and during the off season? That is their excuse rather than simply saying say we want our Rams because we want them.