Carroll: No accountability in handout of Colorado Rockies tickets

From The Denver Post:  By Vincent Carroll

If you’d gone to the website of the Denver Metropolitan Baseball Stadium District as recently as a couple of weeks ago, you’d have found no minutes for any meeting during the past 12 months. But this lack of transparency — papered over in recent days by the hasty posting of bare-bones minutes — is only the tip of the iceberg.

The district board is awash in valuable tickets — not only an executive suite but six prime seats between first base and home — and yet it doesn’t seem to keep records of who gets them. I asked district spokesman Matt Sugar if I could see a log of who used the tickets over the past year or two, and was told such records didn’t exist.

Tickets that aren’t used by board members or distributed to the seven member counties are given to charities, he said, through a process that he acknowledged is “very informal.”

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