Admittedly, calling it “Rupp Renovation” is a misnomer. The proposal is not about Rupp. First, the politically tone-deaf Lexington Mayor Jim Gray said that Lexington would be seeking $20 million from the state for a downtown renovation project. Tone-deaf because in the same story, U.K.’s president said their greater priority would be U.K.’s educational needs, and that U.K. wouldn’t join Lexington in making that request to Frankfort. (Presumably an unprecedented priority such as this is a sign of some impending apocalypse).
Then, the appointed committee over the weekend unanimously rubber-stamps and approves a design.
Keeping an open mind, the political approach was a train wreck, but that doesn’t address the underlying issue—are the underlying components good for the city, and are they a reasonable priority in light of the shockingly tight budgets that stretch unbroken to the horizon?
