Related to the previous post is the issue of what matters to the Court of public opinion.
For our court case we are at one disadvantage. The District can legitimately claim that our case and especially a temporary injunction will cause them financial losses due to delay. It would be convenient if we could point out to the court that replacing the Red Plan with LDV’s Plan B would save far more money. We’re not talking about $5 to $40 million dollars which the District and JCI attorneys have claimed a delay could cost them.
At a minimum the public can expect a $100 million savings if our Plan B wins approval. If a new school board gets approval for simply repairing our schools we could bring the costs down to a hundred million and save the public $200 million dollars. That would still mean $100 million of new spending or (using the 1.6 multiplier) $160 in new money circulating through Duluth. Unlike the District we can’t apply this argument in the Sixth District Court but only with the Court of public opinion.
