Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ark City Industries
Union State Bank owner Bill Docking was nominated to the board of AC Industries earlier this month. This is a significant development because of the perception that AC Industries is arm of Home National Bank and works for the interest of its board members. Bill's presence gives ACI more legitimacy when it claims to advocate and pursue projects for the good of the overall community — aka home improvement stores and TIFF bonds.
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Its good to see them all working together. Good move for ACI. Hope Docking takes the seat.
I find it hard to beleive ACI would invite Docking into their board. Roger Brown dispises Docking (or use to). Maybe with Roger spending all his time in Arizona, the ACI group beleives it needs more "local" community support, and not the ideas of a man who spends more time in Arizona and Hawaii than in the town where his family started.
Roger Brown dispises Docking (or use to).
Really? That is strong language "dispises".
"Ark City Industries"
ha ha- you've got to be freaking kidding me- what have these industrious fella's done for us to this point?
Totally off subject, but has anyone else read the live blog on the ark city revived blog? Here is a little portion of it:
Comment From Chief Sean Wallace]
I am sure there is some racial tension, but it is not the culture any more if it ever was. I speak Spanish and am culturally aware of the Hispanic culture, and I try to reach out to the black community by attending church, sitting on porches, and hiring minorities.
Can someone let me know what sitting on porches has to do with anything? Is it supposed to be funny?
How awesome for this community that two of the banks have people on a board made up of many citizens from many walks of life.
I find the comments from 5:09 very interesting and wonder if it is not a disgruntled former employee in disguise with the spelling errors who would love to see ACI fall. Mr. Brown actually spends more time here than many know about. He has the bank and his mother still lives here.
It is time we give this negativity toward any bank a rest and hope that any common ground can move the town toward a bright and productive community with a progressive vision. It is time that we all move together to save the downtown.
I work downtown. I see Roger Brown walk by about 2-3 times a month I would say.
If you want to save downtown, bring in more business, any business. Anything that will attract more people will make a difference. The big box is history, but there is no reason that the city or chamber can't be contacting other companies and inviting them to take a look. We need to be open and friendly and take anything willing to come.
Nope doesn't sound like it'll bring more legitimacy to ACI. sounds like another rich person getting richer off the backs of those of us who are not as well off and part of a certain status group.
Banks don't have people on their board from "all walks of life" check it out they are all WEALTHY people. People that work hard and are the ordinary joe's of this community would NEVER be on a board of a bank.
ACI has people from all walks of life...and they are not all rich. Until this town gets over this "I can't stand people that are successful" attitude we might as well say "only people that have small bank accounts are welcome here". Quit judging people by how much money they do or do not have. We have to pull together and work together...we will all sink in the quagmire of negativity if we don't.
Do I understand TIFF? Does the city waive a portion of sales tax due them for a period of time, or do they allow an extra amount of sales tax to be collected by the new business, or both??
I would assume that the land value if sold to a national chain would command a much greater premium, so it does not seem right that the local gov. would put the current property owners at risk, in any way, should the new venture leave town. Who foots the bill for water, sewer, street, etc? I remember the big box circumstance, the city agreed to annex, then rescind when the 'deal' didn't materialize, but I sure as hell have seen the street dept. repairing the roads in that area!!!
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