Ken Babby
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2,003 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 May
Ken Babby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In fact, as we kept getting called back, I I was grateful for it, honestly, JP, because you want the opportunity to tell a council member like Councilmember Meneskelko.
He he asked about concessions.
And I talked about how we moved away from a bondable CIT model and went to a paygo at this at the city's request, how we how we agreed to a backstop component.
of the CIT, how we increased multiple times by uh over $100 million the investment amount that this raise ownership group is going to make into this building, you know, paying $1.2 billion privately as an ownership group.
into this building and what that means.
And so I I think the the the other key learning yesterday, which I think we have to understand, is these council members, they want to be part of the process.
Now they can't be in the negotiating room.
They can't be in the you know the back of the house or the restaurant as the meal is being made.
You know, you can't have 45 people in there and our negotiating group from the city and county is already there's a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
But I think we need to do a better job.
And by we, I mean the Rays, the city, the city staff to be working alongside those council members.
So they at least understand that there were a lot of concessions made by the Rays for the last six months.
And I I could see it in the council members' face.
It was the first time I think he was hearing, you know, that we'd move to a pay-go, that we'd agreed to backstop, that we agreed to all the cost over.
Runs that we'd increased our investment amount.
And that's just the kind of the beginning of those concessions.
And so for listeners out there.
How do they not know that?
I mean, that's
the council members are they've got a lot ahead of them.
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