Kim Daniels refers to her efforts to lease the former National Guard Armory building as a race.
After a Tuesday vote by the City Council Finance Committee to push the issue ahead, she said the finish line is in sight.
"It's a 400-meter race and we've already run 300 meters," the council
member said Tuesday afternoon. "I'm just praying this bill has the
endurance it needs."
Daniels' legislation would lease the historic armory building to the
Sons of Confederate Veterans Kirby-Smith Camp 1209, which seeks to
restore the building and turn it into a military museum and space for
other civic organizations. The lease would be $1 a year.
Passed by the council Transportation, Energy and Utilities Committee on
Nov. 18, the bill was deferred by Finance the next day when an
arts-based group emerged with a plan to turn the building into an arts
and education hub.
Daniels met with council President Bill Gulliford on Nov. 26 to ask that
the bill be voted on. He said that before the city entered into a
10-year lease for the building, it would be better to hear more details
about the plans.
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