IS IT TRUE FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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IS IT TRUE that the License agreement for the FORD CENTER states that the Licensee Covenants and Agrees to pay Licensor a rental for each game Thunderbolt game during the regular hockey season, pre-season and the playoff in the amount of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000.000)?  …we wonder if the owner of the former Evansville Iceman Hockey team paid the city this amount of money per home game?  …we have reached out to the owner of the former Evansville Iceman to find out what he paid the city per home game and shall inform you what he tells us?

IT IT TRUE we are hearing that the powers that be may be researching the possibility of the Evansville Thunderbolt  Hockey Team trying to obtain the same franchise that the Evansville Iceman had when they decided to leave Evansville?  …this is a developing story for the mainstream media?

IS IT TRUE about two years ago DMD purchased the Knotty Pine Restaurant site on North Main Street and demolished and now it’s an unfinished  lot?  …this site hasn’t been touched since the Knotty Pine building was demolished?  …we wonder what it cost the taxpayers to purchase the building an lot and them demolished it?

IS IT TRUE the Integra Bank building located on North Main now houses the new Evansville Land Bank Corp in that building?  …we have no idea if DMD sold or leased this building to Evansville Land Bank Corp and for how much?  …that a couple of years ago DMD sold the Intergra Bank building to the Pizza  Bar-Restaurant  located just across the street so they could demolished it for overflow parking?   …several months later DMD re-purchased the Intergra Bank building from the Pizza Bar-Bar-Restaurant  at a higher price (around $35,000 more)?…the DMD now allows the Pizza Bar-Restaurant  customers to continue to park at the old Integra Bank parking lot when their main lot become full?

IS IT TRUE DMD purchased the vacant and dilapidated CVS 800 North Main street building for a whooping $561,750.00? …only an idiot would pay that kind of money for a building located in a seedy part of town without any concrete plans to develop it? …that DMD may be forced to tear it down for a parking lot.? …we hear that DMD parking strategy backup plan for this property is to install around 24 parking spaces on this property?  …. that the demolition costs of tearing down the building and finishing the site for a paved public parking lot could probably cost the city around $100,000?

IS IT TRUE DMD original plan was to spend $907,200 for 114 parking spots in the North Main Street area?  …we wonder if they have stayed on plan or budget?  …our guess is no they haven’t?

IS IT TRUE the State of Indiana is pondering another tax hike on cigarettes?…they will be making a boat load of money in Evansville as it is still has one of the highest smoking per capita rates in the United States?. ..if taxes have to be raised it had just as well be on things that people do not need to live like cigarettes, lottery tickets, and alcoholic drinks?…that is much better than taxing beans and cornbread that is about all that people can afford to eat these days with wage stagnation and every increasing taxes on everything else?

IS IT TRUE we are proud of our Evansville Purple Aces basketball team for putting together a respectable couple of weeks to get our ot the cellar of the Missouri Valley Conference?…the goal now is to finish the year with a winning record even if it is just by one game and not to finish in last place in the conference?…this recent winning gives us hope for next year?

FOOTNOTE:  Todays “READERS POLL” question is:  Have you driven down to North Main Street area to see what an $18 million DMD inspired project looks like?

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13 COMMENTS

  1. Did Mayor Winkie put up the bond for Alex Jarvis? If not, he is an ingrate, as Jarvis is as responsible as anyone for getting him elected.

  2. Is that the same person as Justin Jarvis who was Chairman Owen’s right hand man during the infamous backstabbing of Rick Davis?

  3. DMD and Evansville Land Bank seem to be another rogue shadow branch of government consuming vast amounts of taxpayers’ monies with very little accountability to the public; and who view metropolitan Evansville area as bounded by the Ohio river and the LLoyd. Thanks, CCO, for shining a bit of light on them.

  4. On page 5C of the legal section of the local liberal propaganda daily we see the Vanderburgh County Statement of Receipts and Expenditures for Calendar Year 2016.

    It was not that long ago the we did not have county option income tax, local option income tax, or as we are now describing it: a local income tax (LIT). However, out of the total receipts of $52,194,030.66 for 2015, the lion’s share of $39,155,122.00 came from the Local Option Income Tax.

    Of that $39,155,122.00 in LIT receipts, the largest expenses paid out were $24,367,415.76 for payroll, and $12,773,269.72 for health insurance, for a total of $37,140,685.48, leaving just $15,053,345.18 in total receipts after making payroll and paying for health insurance.

    Now it is not uncommon to hear local government complain that it is the property tax caps that are limiting its ability to provide good government, but as we can see, they have made up the difference handsomely. And if we are to believe that property tax caps are really the problem, then how is it that people are still complaining about their property taxes increasing every year.

    We must also take into account all the exemptions from property tax caps that we are required to pay off, some of which do not show up on the County’s statement of R & E. Paying off Mr. Bertram’s new bricks and mortar building program comes to mind as one rather expensive tax hit to a property owner that does not fall under the property tax caps.

    I don’t know about you, but my property tax graph has trended northeast every year for as long as I can remember, and when that was not enough to satisfy their spending habits they added the local option INCOME tax to the mix at the same time they were doing away with taxes on businesses, like the Inventory Tax.

    You know, the thing that really pisses me off though is that these elected public servants have a track record of OVER PAYING for everything they sign off on. If they treated their personal finances the same way they treat the taxpayer’s dollars they would be living on the street by now. And it worrys me that that is where they are leading the local government. They have brought it right up to the financial cliff, where the slightest additional mishap might push it on over the edge!

  6. Much of the increase in expenses has to be an increase in city worker full time equivalents. It is about winning elections promising more city jobs than are needed. Weak-kneed and abusive to taxpayers.

    • You got that right. We could privatize most of this local government and not only save a ton of dollars, but get better, friendlier, service in the process!

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