The News & Observer reports on a marked lack of debate or modicum of process in naming advisors to “one of the biggest public projects in Raleigh’s history”:
City staff compiled a list of recommended appointees that wasn’t available to the public until hours before the City Council meeting Tuesday afternoon. Raleigh leaders then unanimously approved the recommendations without reading the names aloud, showing them on screens in the council chambers or discussing the list.
A series of tweets from Brent Woodcox appears shows political donations to the mayor and city council members from many who were subsequently picked as Dix Park advisors. (See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
