After months and months of begging, pleading, and cajoling by the public—and harassing calls and e-mails from the Reader—city officials finally came clean with the God’s honest truth about how and why they entered into the parking meter lease deal.
Yes, that Paul Volpe.
Gene Saffold, the city’s current chief financial officer, who wasn’t involved in the parking meter deal. He came on about three months ago; the meter agreement was forged in 2008 and went into effect this past February.
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All kinds of stuff, such as whether the city got its money’s worth in receiving $1.157 billion for giving up the parking meter system for 75 years.
And what did Saffold say?
He started to, but then Alderman Burke cut him off.
Hard to say. When Moore ignored Burke and repeated his question, Saffold responded, “The city Department of Finance.”
