Newport Beach to Audit Its Taj Mahal

Newport Beach is noted for its harbor of expensive yachts and million dollar shacks

With so many Beemers, Mercedes, and Lexi in its malls, it is hard to keep track

Fashion Island rivals the most elegant and expensive shopping venues on the planet

When it comes to attracting wealth and consumption, Newport Beach is a magnet

Hard to believe that this city was once run from a bunch of trailers near the beach

Even harder to fathom way telecommuting lessons did not the city fathers teach

Almost 150 million spent on palatial City Hall

Called by many a second Taj Mahal

Fitting that on the day when in 1631 a Shah’s wife in childbirth died

Another Taj Mahal was started once the Shah had no more tears to cry

That the light bulbs of frugality finally went on at City Hall

An independent audit to discover why such a price tag the city did not forestall

Sounds like a locking the barn door moment after the cows have fled

Probably won’t address the issue of cheaper alternatives instead

100 grand out of our pockets to determine what went wrong and how to future disasters of waste prevent

But unlikely the audit will curb the appetite of government at any level to have more money spent

Maybe the audit could be sold as a case study for city managers and councils to study the lessons learned

After all even in Newport Beach the often plucked taxpayers do not have money to burn

© June 17, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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