Utopia

I've had a lot of people want to know what my position is concerning Utopia, Utopia was a mistake and I would like to apologize to the electorate of Orem city for my support of Utopia in 2003. At the time of the vote I relied on information and advice from people that were much wiser than I conserving computers and digital data, at the time of the vote I can remember saying that I was uncomfortable with Utopia and was uncertain that this was the proper role of government, but I was relying on the advice of people that I thought were more knowledgeable and more experienced in this type of technology than me. I can honestly say that I wish I would have voted no, but I did support Utopia and I did support its refinancing two years later and I offer my sincere apology to the citizens of Orem for those two votes.  Had I been on the city council in 2010 when again, the bonds were refinanced, I would have voted a very strong NO. Utopia needs to be held accountable for the money that has already been spent. Utopia needs to understand that Orem City will not give them one more cent until Orem is built out and there is a 33% take rate.  These two promises have been made more times than I can count and Orem needs to stand up to the Utopia board and make it very clear, no more money.   If I am elected to the Orem City Council several things will happen with Utopia,

 #1. There will be no more meetings with individual council members. Utopia is doing this so that they do not have to have minutes of the meetings and it’s much easier to intimidate council members.

 #2.Everything will be done in the open and in the bright light of day, high proprietary information or not.

 #3 They will be held accountable for the business models that they had sold to the city By this I mean, Orem City will be totally built out and a 33% take rate, and Orem City should accept no less.