#Quincy Mayor ThomasP.Koch Tapdances About His Downsizing His Plans For An Adams Family Center

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Who knew that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch was light on his feet?

Not even Quincy Quarry News.

Then again, he rolled out the debut of this latest pile of spin via the friendly settings of Koch Omnimedia, formerly known as QATV, and the Quincy Koch, formerly known as the Quincy Sun. 

The act premiered on Koch Omnimedia right before and then all but immediately after the first weekend of the New Year.

A Quincy Quarry News reporter drinking in another New Year
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A time when most people are recovering from partying in the New Year and thus not much paying attention as well as then the song and dance number was favorably — if not also obsequiously — reviewed in the Quincy Koch. 

The crux of the act?  

Trying to put a happy face on how his plans to take the site that is currently home to Planet Fitness via adverse eminent domain as the site fr for his grandiose plans for a surely going to run solidly into nine figure Adams Family facility and so probably endeavor to tout himself above the second and sixth presidents of the United States are not happening.

Father and I are not amused.
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Needless to say, unacknowledged was why the change: Mayor Koch has all but utterly failed to raise the funds needed for his surely nine figure pipedream.

Per a review of the most recent germane Secretary of State data for not-for-profit organizations, only around a million has was noted as raised from private parties and roughly the same in total from multiple local and state government grants funded by taxpayers.

In turn, it would appear that the City Council expressed a rare showing of spine by advising the mayor soto vocce that no way could they survive this fall’s council elections come November if they were pressed into the rubber stamping of likely upwards of a $20 million city debt authorization to be paid off by local taxpayers that would be needed to fund the purchase of the site of the mayor’s latest proposed and sure to be money-losing proposal.

Rules, what rules?
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Then again, with taxpayers looking to have to fund upwards of $10 million to $15 million to settle Mayor Koch’s illegally seizing of the land underneath the Adams Academy in spite of multiple rulings at all levels of the Massachusetts court system as well as often multiple times at the various levels of state court jurisdictions, Mayor Koch is on thin ice.

Very thin ice.

So what — apparently — for the so-called “Takings Clause” of the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.

Then again, the rules are also more like guidelines than actual rules in Quincy.

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