BIDs don't fullfill promises to area businesses

"BIDs don't fulfill promises of services to businesses"

A great article about BIDs not living up to their claims and not providing the services they promise to area businesses. This is in New York, but remember, in Northampton we already have a good idea about how Dan Yacuzo, Joe Blumenthal and other BID steering committee members manage public money, because many of them are on the Citizen's Advisory Committee which controls the city's Hospital Hill development project. $22 million has gone in taxpayer money has been spent on the hill, but little of what the group originally planned has come to fruition.



So, here's how BIDs manage their members' money and city funds elsewhere:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03292009/news/regionalnews/the_notorious_b_i_d_s_161867.htm