Tuesday, July 31, 2007
SEA is AWOL
The Sports and Exhibition Authority (SEA), the city-county agency that is the owner of Heinz Field, PNC Park, the Convention Center, and the soon to be civic/hockey arena, is apparently bored with its duties as the steward of all the cultural and recreational goodies that make our region the most livable (sarcasm intended). For the third month in a row, they had to cancel a meeting because they could not get a quorum.
Maybe the seven-member board, with three each appointed by the Mayor and the County Executive and one joint appointment, should be looking for some new board members who can be bothered to show up. They could tap the Stadium Authority for interested citizens. That authority used to own Three Rivers Stadium and was supposed to go out of business when the structure was imploded, but still serves as the steward of the City to sign off on North Shore development. It just goes to show that some organizations neither die nor fade away.
If the SEA does want members, staffers here at the Allegheny Institute would be happy to sign up. We would not want the public’s business to go undone.
Maybe the seven-member board, with three each appointed by the Mayor and the County Executive and one joint appointment, should be looking for some new board members who can be bothered to show up. They could tap the Stadium Authority for interested citizens. That authority used to own Three Rivers Stadium and was supposed to go out of business when the structure was imploded, but still serves as the steward of the City to sign off on North Shore development. It just goes to show that some organizations neither die nor fade away.
If the SEA does want members, staffers here at the Allegheny Institute would be happy to sign up. We would not want the public’s business to go undone.
