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Comment on Friday roundup: County commission approves $100m in Blazers arena money, doesn’t actually have $100m by M
['Neil Demause']
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One of several remaining shoes dropped in the Portland Trail Blazers arena renovation saga yesterday, as Multnomah County commissioners voted 4-1 to approve team owner Tom Dundon’s term sheet for $100 million in county funding for the project.
Or maybe just half a shoe, as three of the five commissioners voted not to use $35 million in county taxes from the sale of the Blazers to Dundon to pay for the county’s costs, and the commission doesn’t have a substitute source of those funds.
“How real is this commitment for money, if we can’t agree on a way to fund it?”
How does adding amendments to this term sheet make it worse?”
And in this week’s non-Portland news: