“IS IT TRUE” JULY 14, 2024

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IS IT TRUE that Mayor Terry recently announced that the State Board Of Accounts is currently conducting a financial audit/review of the books of the outgoing Winnecke administration?  …many taxpayers are looking forward to Mayor Terry the audit results being made public?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville is also facing many hundreds of millions of dollars of additional bond debt because of numerous unfinished big-ticket capital Water and Sewer projects, making needed repairs and improvements to city parks, and repairing and repaving many of our crumbling city streets?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville is also facing many hundreds of millions of dollars of additional bond debt because of numerous unfinished big-ticket capital Water and Sewer projects, making needed repairs and improvements to city parks, and repairing and repaving many of our crumbling city streets?IS IT TRUE that many months ago members of the Evansville City Council agreed to sell the naming rights of 24 city streets to raise 9 million dollars to pay for renovations costs at the Ford Center?

IS IT TRUE that we have been told that not one naming rights to any of the 24 City Streets were sold?  …we wonder where members of the City Council got the 9 million dollars to make needed repairs on the FORD CENTER?

IS IT TRUE that many Evansville taxpayers are extremely puzzled why members of the Evansville City Council decided to give 9 million dollars to E-ERP to help the well-healed Developer pay to build the underground parking garage at 420 Main?

IS IT TRUE that we have also been told that this proposed project may have several financial moving parts concerning this multi-million dollar capital project? …that we look forward to hearing the details concerning the costs of the companion capital projects in Warrick, Posey, and Gibson) counties?
IS IT TRUE that “The Southwest Indiana Regional Development Authority” is where E-REP gets its development funds? …that members of the Indiana General Assembly voted to give E-Rep the statutory authority to levy a tax on any project shortfall costs on the property owners in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Gibson, and Posey counties?
IS IT TRUE that free government money always comes with strings attached?
IS IT TRUE what government giveth they can also taketh away?
IS IT TRUE that one of the hardest words for our local politicians to say during a budget hearing is the word “NO”?
IS IT TRUE we wonder when Mayor Terry and members of the City Council will make
public their plans to repair and repave our city streets, make needed repairs to our parks, and find ways to cut the annual million-dollar losses at the Ford Center and make some major cuts to the 2024 budget?

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