Asheville City Council will be asked Tuesday to approve prototyping of repairs for city hall. To get you excited, the staff report quotes the architect as describing the design as, “an evolution of the desire that the contours of the building should reflect the mountain background.” If that’s not enough to convince you the city’s pretty, pink building, described by old-timey locals as a birthday cake, needs repairs, consider the $100,000 estimate for the prototype and another $395,000 for bid and construction documents and special inspections, both of which the city will borrow from its fund balance. Not to worry, the city will take out debt, at which time, it will reimburse the fund balance $450,000. Not to worry here, either; great economists will shout you down if you insinuate incurring debt (or using available debt capacity as the case may be), has anything to do with arguments in favor of raising taxes (or fees as the case may be).