I got chills today, scanning ongoing coverage of Cleveland City Hall's plans to lock citizens and their children here into a 10 year sole-source LED lighting contract with Sunpu Opto [1], of China - Cleveland council committee embraces LED lighting deal [2] - when I made the interpretation my instincts about Sunpu Opto are the same as Councilman Polensek's... which means my instincts may be wrong, as how could he be right [3]?
Polensek's take on the Sunpu Opto deal:
"When my gut tells me something is wrong, I've been around long enough to know it's not right," Polensek said during the hearing.
He accused the administration of conducting a faulty process in choosing Sunpu-Opto.
"We're going to pay for every one of those jobs five times, six times over," Polensek said.
I'm glad to read Polensek feels this way about the Sunpu Opto situation, as I understand Sansai Environmental Technologies [4] has had a devil of a time dealing with faulty processes with the administration at Cleveland City Hall in getting economic development support here for the jobs and opportunity they already bring to Polensek's ward in Cleveland - the lack of support at City Hall for Sansai should be addressed with as much energy, enthusiasm and vigor by the city and the media as is the Sunpu Opto opportunity packaged by Jackson... and the lack of support for Sansai in Collinwood should be addressed before there is another vote on supporting Sunpu Opto of China.
Raising the question, how does one get Cleveland City Hall, City Council, honest reporters and the various powers that be here to make trade missions to Collinwood, to learn about Sansai Environmental here, and how do they get Polensek and our other leaders here to realize if they screw up the community's opportunity to host Sanai here, and Sansai leaves town, "we're going to pay for every one of those jobs five times, six times over."
"When my gut tells me something is wrong, I've been around long enough to know something is wrong," Norm Roulet writes today, about the situation in Collinwood with Councilman Polensek and Cleveland City Hall not supporting Sansai Environmental Engineering, and it is more important for City Hall to make that right than worry about Sunpu Opto at all, ever.
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Links:
[1] http://realneo.us/content/question-day-do-you-trust-ge-or-mayor-jackson-economists-analysts-and-lawyers-more
[2] http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/05/cleveland_city_council_mulls_l.html
[3] http://realneo.us/content/ward-11-councilman-gone-wild
[4] http://realneo.us/content/now-team-clevelanders-can-really-fight-and-real-neo-can-really-love-go-sansai
[5] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/SansaiSignage650.JPG