Over the last several years we have been watching with interest how many bad business decisions are made by local governmental enities with out any recourse from the private sector.
The lack of proper planning or follow through in the building of the Multi- Million Dollar Deaconess Sports Park is almost laughable.  First off, CVB spokes person announces the Sports Park has hired a new person to manage the overall operations and including the planning and scheduling all events associated with this multi million dollar Sports facility.  Thereafter CVB Executive Director Bob Warren announces that the newly appointed Sports Park manager has decided to to head South.  Warren  announces a new Sports Park manager has been appointed. Bob Warren then announces that the baseline measurements are off and shall cause a problem with scheduling teams  that have older players..  He announces that the costs are to prohibited to correct the base line problems. The “Grand Daddy”  of all mistakes is when CVB Bob Warren announces the scoreboards at the new sports park didn’t have any “Balls and Strikes” displayed on them.  All we can say about this is “WOW”.   Bottom line, If CVB Executive Director Bob Warren worked for the private sector and made these business mistakes he would had been fired!
Next we have the self proclaimed land and building acquisition expert DMD Director Kelley Coures running all over town buying up property like there is no tomorrow.  Recently Mr. Coures land and building acquisitions ventures took him to the blighted North Main street area of Evansville.  Mr. Coures looked into his crystal ball and decided to use our hard earned tax dollars to pay $535,000 to purchase the vacant and dilapidated CVS building located on North Main and Columbia street.  Today the only activity on the future use for this building is displaying a “FOR LEASE” sign on the front door.  However, we hear we might have great news for CVS building.  Coures now feels we can raze the building to provide parking to help with the over flow parking issues with Bosse Field.  Let’s see, he now wants to use land for over flow parking for a  park and baseball facility located about 9 or 10 blocks away.  We wonder if Mr. Coures realizes who in the world would want to walk 9 or 10 blocks with his family to a sporting event in a crime “riddened seedy part of town”?  We don’t even have to go into the merits of Coures decision to purchase the vacant Integrity Bank building on North main because its much of the same “Pie in the Sky” public sector economics.  Bottom line, If DMD Director Kelley Coures made these kind of bad business decisions in the private sector he would had been fired!
FOOTNOTE: Â STAY TONED BECAUSE NEXT EDITORIAL WILL BE ABOUT THE “SWITH AND BAIT” DOWNTOWN “MOTEL 6” LOOKING CONVENTION HOTEL.
