Former City of Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling has rejected a suggestion that the municipality’s current administration’s approach to the waterfront redevelopment project is a continuation of his administration’s agenda.Mr Gosling argues in a letter to the Editor in today’s paper that his administration’s approach to the waterfront was well documented in minutes of the Corporation, while the current administration has failed to properly document key decisions.“There is no record of the intent of the original RFP (Request for a Proposal) for the new Waterfront Development, there is no record of the discussion that must have occurred somewhere on determining the CoH wanted to go this particular route and the RFP be published, absolutely nothing on the submissions received, the review process, the involvement of the technical officers, or that the board agreed (did they?) in a properly constituted meeting to the exclusive 200+ year lease to the Developer and all such terms affixed to it,” Mr Gosling writes.The letter is a response to a letter under the pen name “Just Watching” which was published in this newspaper on August 13.That letter writer defended City Hall’s handling of the project saying that the previous administration had created a “private and select” group to drive the project, but the new administration had given the process a “visible cloak of legality, in that a well advertised invitation was extended to the public, to submit bids”.Mr Gosling explains that the “Waterfront Development Steering Committee” had only three voting members, the Premier, the Mayor and Bermuda First, and his effort to broaden representation, by including the Opposition Leader, failed.He also dismisses “Just Watching’s” claim that former Premier Sir John Swan attended more than one of the meetings.“Forget that the RFP was more like an IEI (Invitation of Expression of Interest), forget that the goalposts were struck down and moved to a playing field whose location was only known by one or two members of the board, forget the fact that there was no record of CoH contemplating advising the other interested parties who submitted RFP’s to the complete change in scope, forget that there was no consultation with Government, past or present. This was not a continuation of my agenda.”The municipality has been embroiled in controversy over the waterfront project since it went ahead with an announcement of its chosen developer in January this year against the express wishes of the Government which said it was yet to conduct due diligence.It later emerged that a 262-year lease of the waterfront property had been agreed.Concerns about governance and the handling of the project prompted the Ombudsman to launch an own motion systemic investigation into City Hall.Mr Gosling’s letter can be read in full on page four.