Irek's comments:

on Soccer City, USA?

This is just the investment for these hard times. It will generate prevailing wage jobs in construction, and "fair wage" jobs at the stduims per the recomendation of the Task Force.

Bonds being repaid with ticket surcharges makes this a good deal. We will have a major league team that is paid by the people who go to the games. Win, win situation.

posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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on Soccer City, USA?

The funds for the refurbishing of PGE park and building the baseball stadium will not come from the General Fund. So asking for those funds to be spent on infrastructure and or social services does not make sense.  

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on State of the City

MLS has been around for 15 years; it has had it's ups and downs, but I believe that the current leadership is doing right things to ensure a continued success for the league. Changes such as moving teams to soccer specific stadiums, starting a new international competition ("SuperLiga") and putting an effort to make the MLS know outside of US (and Canada) are benefitial to the league and  to soccer in general.

Portland should live up to it's nickname of "Soccer City, USA" and provide the funds necessary to move the Timbers to MLS.  

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