IS IT TRUE we wonder why officials at Henderson Methodist Hospital and officials of a Evansville Hospital are discussing issue of economic concerns? …if members of the local main stream media would had attended last weeks Board of Directors meeting of Henderson Methodist Hospital they would know the answer to this question? Â …if you read tomorrows IS IT TRUE you just might get a better idea of what we are talking about?…this is a developing story?
IS IT TRUE that the fireworks were poised to light up the Evansville City Council meeting last night with a host of controversial issues all coming to a head in the beginning of what promises to be a long hot summer?…A request to move $100,000 in local income taxes into the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was voted down 5-4 by City Council after the people of Evansville had spoken their piece against favoritism when it comes to reduced rent in taxpayer subsidized housing?…it is beginning to dawn on the people of Evansville and 5 members of the City Council that the time for lavish handouts is over and the time for responsible financial management is long overdue?…the elected officials in favor of the subsidies to those deemed to be special and deserving were Jonathan Weaver, D-At-Large; Connie Robinson, D-4th Ward; Jim Brinkmeyer, D-6th Ward; Dan Adams, D-At-Large and Republican Mayor Lloyd Winnecke?…this one may come back to haunt a few of these elected officials when it comes time to run again?
IS IT TRUE the City Council has also voted to allow pot bellied pigs as pets in the city limits?…we are wondering what will be allowed next since there are already homes in the city limits with cows, chickens, and at least one donkey?…we are looking forward to hearing a member of the city council bray like a donkey to approve East Side Jack as a household pet?  …if Council President Missy Mosby would spend more time on things like how to stop run away deficit spending instead of a  “pot bellied pigs” issue we wouldn’t be in such a financial mess?
IS IT TRUE the truth has finally been acknowledged about the city employees hospitalization fund being insufficiently funded?…some folks would use the term “looted” to describe what has happened to the money that should have been set aside for employee health benefits?…The city’s hospitalization fund, from which city employee health insurance claims are paid, has a negative balance of $4.02 million while the general fund balance is $424,000 leaving a shortfall of $3.6 million if the general fund is completely depleted?…City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr. has finally owned up to this ridiculous situation?…fun and games on borrowed money has taken priority over real life in Evansville, Indiana and the band keeps playing on?  …the City of Evansville is now facing a major cash flow problem?  …we wonder when members of the mainstream media are going to report this?
IS IT TRUE that the police and fire unions for the City of Evansville are apparently so fed up with the way the city is being mis-managed that they have ceased communication with the Winnecke Administration?…all we can say is that the obsession with fun, games, and the downtown have distorted the sense of reality in Evansville to the point of ridiculousness?
 IS IT TRUE we continue to stick by our 2016 predictions that the City of Evansville has major financial problems?  …we predict that this coming budget hearings will be the beginning of the undoing of Mayor Winnecke’s tax and spend away of doing business?
IS IT TRUEÂ that every time the Evansville DMD Director speaks in public his know it all attitude is becoming a serious liability for the Winnecke Administration? Â …a great example is how he snubbed Rev Steve Ary during last nights Council meeting when Rev Ary was asking some pointed questions about the North main street design problems?
 Todays “READERS POLL†question is: If the election were held today for Republican nomination for Mayor of Evansville who would you vote for?
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What did Mr. Coures have to say about the cost to repair the N. Main Street fiasco? Who will be held responsible for designing a multi-million dollar road with shopping cart path that is too narrow for 2 trucks to pass at the same time?
Those would be the same folks who tried to give Ken Haney 5 million dollars. Same people who have, time after time, shown just how inept an administration can be and still survive. No matter, for a hundred bucks you can have a pig running around. All such pigs should be mandated to wear bright yellow, until it’s time to be hung to cure in the City Smokehouse (still to come, at your expense).
Dear Joe . . .IS IT TRUE that Hafer and Associates received the engineering and design contract? IS IT TRUE that Hafer and Associates also received the engineering and design contract for the Robert Stadium project and we all know how that turned out. Does anyone see some sort of pattern???
The term Evanzuela has been used here before. Perhaps Evansnois will be the next to surface.
Veritas strikes again. The truth comes out:
http://www.veritaslive.com/06-26-2017/americanpravdacnn.html
CNN = Very Fake News
As it seems, this Council emphasis on McGinn & Hargis, never ask two questions: (1) How much money has the Winnecke Administration advanced on the June property tax revenue compared to the previous year, (2) how much in unpaid invoices associated with the General Fund are open compared to the previous year. In addition, the beginning General Fund balance as of Jan 1, 2017 was only 1.1 mil and this is after the unauthorized transfer of 12.5 million from the Riverboat Fund to the General Fund . . .so Mr. McGinn and Ms Hargis, cat got your tongue? But, one thing is coming, as of Dec 31, 2019, old Russ & Company will be quailed out . .why? . . .well the requirement that Cities the size of Evansville will have to present their financial statements on the accrual method of accounting . . .those advancement of future revenue instead of being reported as revenue in the current periods will be reported as loans and those unpaid bill will have to be expensed in the current periods. The $281,000,000 of retiree heath benefit liabilities will have to booked. The total unmasking of the master manipulator will be unveiled.
Metermaid, good points re: accrual basis of accounting.
The only solution, for Russ & Company, is to SHRINK THE SIZE of Evansville, to get the population down far enough so that cash basis is still allowable.
Maybe ship out to DuBois county everyone who makes less than $ 85K per year; or simply redraw the City limits to only include the Downtown Area. Brilliant !
Why would you locate a business here? With our finances it would be like opening a hot dog stand on the Titanic.
Precisely . . .water & sewage bills going out the roof. Vectren has us by the balls and a mayor who can’t even bounce his own checkbook in charge of our financial affairs!!!
If the mayor CAN’t even bounce his own checkbook, isn’t that a good thing ? I.e., the checks won’t bounce ?
Just sayin’
I can’t be overdrawn. I still have checks!
If he could dance to it, he’d bounce it like a red rubber ball.
Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) March 2015
MANAGING LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE COSTS
http://www.iacir.spea.iupui.edu/documents/IACIRfinal.pdf
BTW, the city of Evansville’s problems seems to have exacerbated since it fell under requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
In my opinion it is disgraceful that the City of Evansville does not even fall under the same health care laws that govern employee health care for profit and non profit corporations in the State of Indiana.
Pressanykey:
You are way off the mark. The ACA had nothing to do with the City’s health insurance problems.
Two problems are: 1) Waited too long to charge employees market rates for employee contributions to plan; and
2) City has a $ 500,000 specific stop loss policy and NO aggregate stop loss policy on a self-insured plan-WOW !
Stop blaming all problems on Barack !
The Gleaner in Henderson has reported multiple times that Methodist Hospital is working on an affiliation with Deaconess to strengthen its finances.
Insiders tell me the same thing.
IS IT TRUE the City Council has also voted to allow pot bellied pigs as pets in the city limits?…we are wondering what will be allowed next since there are already homes in the city limits with cows, chickens, and at least one donkey?
The voters elected a bunch of monkeys and rats in the city leadership. Apologies to the monkeys and rats of the world…they’re smarter and more honest than Evansville’s elected city officials.
There’s a gas station being put in my neighborhood and the neighborhood wasn’t even asked I don’t understand I bet they wouldn’t have put one where the mayor lives or any of the council members
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