MAY 5, 2017 “READERS FORUM”

1. Being on the elderly side, if I look intently in the mirror in a good light I can see an almost invisible fine mist of grey cells exiting from my ears, so my fingers don’t always catch up with my thoughts.

2. Is anyone else greatly offended at the heartless editors at Courier & Press for suing to obtain the details of the lovely young lady’s senseless murder in Warrick County? In an effort to make a few bucks selling newspapers, the Courier and Press sued to obtain and then publish the sordid details of this very tragic crime. Hasn’t that family suffered enough without being re-victimized by the Courier & Press? Shame, shame on the Courier and Press. Hopefully, with public pressure, the Courier & Press will finally do the “right thing” and not obtain/publish all the details of this tragic crime.

3. This audit report does not come as a surprise to me:

   https://www.sao.texas.gov/Reports/Main/09-001.pdf

   What is surprising is that the Texas State Auditor actually did an audit of these “energy savings contracts” in order to determine if the taxpayers were getting value for their money.

   The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation is fully invested in “energy savings contracts” for its facilities, but to my knowledge there is no one, the Indiana State Auditor or the EVSC, auditing these contracts to determine if the full cost of the contracts have been recovered.

   I just got off the phone with the Indiana Auditor’s Office, and the lady I spoke with assured me they do not do field audits. I tried the Indiana State Board of Accounts auditor for schools and townships Ryan Preston’s office but his screener, who originally said he was in his office, after determining that I was “just a citizen”, said he was on the phone and asked if I would like to leave an email. I was going to ask him if they audited these energy savings contracts to see if the full contract costs were actually recovered, and if and when he returns my call I will update this post, but I feel like I know the answer already.

   EVSC has scheduled a public hearing for May 15th at 5:30pm at the Administration Building at 951 Walnut Street, to discuss and hear objections and support regarding the proposed energy savings contract at McCutchanville Elementary School in the amount not to exceed $4,600,000. How much money would actually be saved during the life of that proposed contract is anyone’s guess without an audit being performed at its conclusion. What is not in question is that the taxpayers will be asked for another $4,600,0000. in order to save???????

   • Great research Press! The McCuthanville Elementary School should have LED fixtures, extra insulation, energy efficient windows and put solar panels and sky lights on the roof. I now await a $4.6 million check from the EVSC as my unaudited energy savings will total at least 10 million over the life of the school, thereby saving the taxpayers far more than my modest $4.6 million payment.

     • Don’t hold your breath. It’s already planned to be spent.

4. School corporations in Indiana are allowed to enter into “Energy Saving Contracts” with “Performance Contractors” for a period of up to 10 years. Typically, these “savings” aren’t directed back to the school corporation. Instead tgey’re used to fund construction/teno ations/remodel through a lease plan (“savings” pay for the principal and interedt on the 10 year lease). Reality #1: it’s a financing scheme to finance capital i.provement projects. Reality #2: if the school corporations had the money up fro t it would save more money.
   And who, you may adk, is one of the biggest “performance conyracting” firms around? Why, ESGI, a subsiderady of Vectren.

   • Damn, we really need an edit key on this blog so I can correct my typos from this cellphone keyboard:
     they’re not tgey’re
     renovations not teno ations
     interest not interedt
     improvement not i.provement
     front not fro t
     ask not adk
     contracting not conyracting
     subsiderary not subsiderady

     And ESGI is Energy Savings Group Inc

5. EVSC utilized the “Energy Saving Performance Contracting” concept to provide cooling (AC), new heating systems (boiler replacement), carpeting, fire alarm systems, new ceiling systems, and new lighting systems in virtually all of it’s existing schools several years ago.
   The energy savings (savings in utility charges) over the 10 year period realized from the more efficient heating systems and lighting systems was then utilized to pay for the new cooling systems, the new ceiling systems, the new lighting systems, the new carpeting, and new fire alarm systems. EVSC entered into a 10 year lease through ESGI to fund all of the construction up front and then the “calculated energy savings” were applied to the lease payments (principle, interest, and ESGI mark up).
   To wit, it was just another method (legal, and approved by the Indiana Legislature) to fund school construction/renovation/remodel outside of school corporations using their “normal” capital construction funding sources.

6. I don’t know Editor, “Whatsats” on your mind today?

7. President Trump Law $ Order 2017 And Beyond ……… barry hussein and big mike….. lying rice…… holder….. harry clinton……………. will be jailed as spying anti Americans………America is great again………..Win Win Win…………………………http://drudgereport.com/

   • I’ll never forget when you thought this was so important bro;

     http://www.usdebtclock.org/

     But then came Mar-a-Lago, and fake Orange news took your breath away.

     Kinda off topic, but did you see where Rachel Maddow and Alice Cooper were going to get married?

     Be careful walking down that isle ring-bearer, it’ssssss going to be a very slippery slope.

     Believe me….

8. http://drudgereport.com/

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