Futility, Defined.

The City of Fairfield has dumped thousands of dollars down a hole.

Please tell me the Dan Schuering era is over. It should be. The Springfield attorney, who has rolled up fees north of $50-thousand dollars, is making a bad situation, worse.

Wednesday night Schuering called a 2015 city ordinance, an “alleged ordinance.” He advised the council’s TIF committee to not repeal it, because that would make it more difficult to defend in court. Follow that logic.

Hear me. Schuering arrived here in February of 2018. Nothing meaningful has been resolved since then. The only thing that was obvious on Wednesday night was the city is spending TIF money at a disturbing clip. Over a million was approved and sent on to the full city council this week alone. 

The whole topic of surplus funds for the schools and other taxing districts is a moot point. There won’t be any surplus left soon. The high school bellied up to the trough quickly and got a couple of hundred thousand to air condition the Mule Barn. They were smart. The rest of the taxing districts are going end up with squat.

This is a debacle. The TIF committee knows it. The Mayor is unwilling to admit it and the taxpayers who wander into these meetings leave asking the same question…

Why is Dan Schuering still here?

The Mayor says he’s gone in April.

How about right now?