McEuen Site Now Shows $14.2M Cost

Item: McEuen website disappears: Official: Site taken down because it contained outdated information /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: Gone is the McEuen Field website that showed the original, high-end $39.2 million estimate for the downtown park conceptual plan. What’s on the Coeur d’Alene Parks Department’s web page now is an updated McEuen Field site that shows Phase 1 of the McEuen Field project, costing $14.2 million. The previous site was suddenly taken down Wednesday because some of the information it presented, Parks Director Doug Eastwood said, was “not current, not accurate” - namely, the high-end cost of the conceptual plan that was $39 million, he said, which has led to inaccurate information being circulated about McEuen Field.

Quoth: “Dirty politics. I would like to have an explanation. Outdated or not, the council approved it in its entirety” — Frank Orzell, recall organizer.

Question: Recall organizer called the move to show the real cost of the McEuen Field project “dirty politics.” Couldn’t it be said that the Recallers are using “dirty politics” by inflating project cost 3X?