Wednesday, May 15, 2013

HUD to port: Where are the jobs

Anita Lee reported in the Sun-Herald this morning HUD questioned how many jobs were created in the state port:

"GULFPORT -- The federal government says the Mississippi Development Authority has documented only 50 of the 1,286 direct, full-time jobs it claims at the state port, and insists MDA provide records to show all the jobs exist.

The Sun Herald obtained a copy of a letter sent April 22 to the MDA from Stanley Gimont, director of block grant compliance in community development and planning for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

MDA must supply documentation on the jobs by early June, an enclosed report says. If the jobs are not documented, the report warns, the state could face repayment of Community Development Block Grant money HUD redirected from post-Katrina housing assistance to economic development at the port.

Port workers and community advocates monitoring the project have long questioned the number of jobs the port claims now, and the 1,200 jobs it promises to create with the $580 million in federal funding. The project requires 51 percent of port jobs go to low- to moderate-income residents.

The port is spending the money on restoration, expansion and upgrades that will not be completed until 2017." Rest of article

Posted by Kingfish at 6:08 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The MDA should use Obama's formula. HUD will understand that. Simply, you count any job that existed at the time the money flowed and for sure those jobs were saved by the infusion of that money. Next, you count applicants and anyone knows those people found employment as a result of the application experience. Then, you count all independent contractors and count them again each time they started and stopped and started again, like they did in the Censur Bureau with a hundred thousand 'workers' who came and went and came and went.

May 15, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Anonymous said...

If the project is not due to be complete until 2017, why is there any expectation that those jobs will have already been created by 2013...four years before its finished and fully functional??

May 15, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Anonymous said...

It is the 1,286 "existing" jobs they can't document. But, it does raise serious questions about the1.200 "future" jobs they have predicted and whether the $580 million in projects are justified or otherwise a good investment. I suspect contractors will be the only beneficiaries and, once again, Mr. Taxpayer will be left holding the bag and looking for all those jobs they said would be there. Then again, I guess that's what we should expect when the State is trying to run a business. What a waste.

May 15, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Anonymous said...

It is the 1,286 "existing" jobs they can't document. But, it does raise serious questions about the1.200 "future" jobs they have predicted and whether the $580 million in projects are justified or otherwise a good investment. I suspect contractors will be the only beneficiaries and, once again, Mr. Taxpayer will be left holding the bag and looking for all those jobs they said would be there. Then again, I guess that's what we should expect when the State is trying to run a business. What a waste.

May 15, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...

No worries. The Donkeycrats say that expanding Medicaid is going to create 9000 jobs.

May 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM
Anonymous said...

2:02; Other than the port project kicking off during Barbour's reign, what is your objection? Take your time........

May 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM
5:08 said...

tick tock, tick tock.

May 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Anonymous said...

If you count every job that the Port claims was in existence at the time the money flowed it would be 1286. Port can't prove it retained but 50 of those jobs today. So, Port, run by GOP appointees and overseen by Barbour, then Bryant's people, have spent $100 million so far and have retained negative 1236 jobs. In the private sector, heads would roll for that level of nonperformance.

How much more of this success can we stand?

May 16, 2013 at 7:54 PM

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