Las Manitas - where's MY $750k? (loans, hotel, house)

[JohnnyBreakdance]

The city council is using $750k of our tax dollars to help a taco shack relocate so my question is this: If I work from home and my landlord sells the house where I live will the city council give me $750k to help me move?

[love roses]

Are you serious? That city council is infamous for doing weird things. But are you talking about that resturaunt on Congress that is getting booted so a Hotel can go there? If that's the case, you're talking about a local institution, not a taco shack..One thing people should know, we treat our institutions like they're our own families.

[JohnnyBreakdance]

Of course this thread is a joke but if the city council goes through with the loan then the lawsuits against the city will be no joke at all.

KEYE did a survey and 82% of respondents do NOT think that Las Maintas should get welfare.

The city council should take notice.

[GreenPlastic]

I like the food there but this is a bad decision. 750k so the sisters can move down the street to a building they own? This Fund that the city is using to make the loan only started in February and Las Manitas is the only entity to be granted a loan so far. Again, the food is good but the city has no business giving them a forgiveable loan.

[love roses]

Didn't they also give that nightclub that Burned down a loan? While i was posting above, I had it in the back of my mind that they did own another building (I remember reading about it in the Chronicle). Yes, I agree. City Council needs to stop giving businesses loans to move or rebuild.

[JohnnyBreakdance]

Yes, but that was a black owned night club, not a Mexican owned taco shack, and APD officers made some insensitive remarks about the club. The city had to give them money to assuage white guilt.