IS IT TRUE July 2, 2013
IS IT TRUE that City Councilwomen Missy Mosby shall have primary opponent who is extremely credible and very well liked throughout the entire community? … that this shall be his first time to run for political office and shall be extremely well funded? …you can expect to hear more details about Ms. Mosby’s future campaign opponent when he announces his “blue ribbon” election campaign committee in the very near future?
IS IT TRUE the 96 speed humps that were ordered by the City of Evansville in March for April delivery before the City Council had even been asked to okay their purchase have been traced to the Engineering Department?…we still do not know who in the Engineering Department took it upon themselves to belittle the City Council to the point of irrelevance but we would welcome an explanation from Department Head Pat Keepes who surely had to have been in the loop to spend $8,821 taxpayer dollars without City Council approval?…the real question that needs to be answered is just which line item in the approved 2012 City of Evansville budget justified this purchase?
IS IT TRUE our MOLES tell us that this same practice has been going on in the Water and Sewer Utility with Johnson Controls water meters?…the question to be answered there is are these replacements part of a routine maintenance program of replacement and if so are they cost effective with the mechanical meters already in use?…if it is possible to replace the mechanical meters with new Johnson Controls meters out of the maintenance budget it begs the question of why do we need to borrow $46 Million to replace them all at once?…if it turns out to be the case that the Johnson Controls meters can be installed cost effectively through a planned routine replacement schedule over 20 or 30 years without borrowing any money then why don’t we just do that and be done with $46 Million of borrowing for yet another shiny object?
IS IT TRUE the Mole Nation is saying that the Winnecke Administration is now claiming privately that the overall downtown convention hotel construction costs is being reduced about $10 million dollars? ..we can’t wait to see where the proposed cuts are coming from?…this could be from the elimination of the storage building that SHOULD BE PAID FOR FROM ARENA FUNDS?…it could be by reducing the amount of subsidized retail and restaurant area?…it could even be from elimination of the apartments that have been represented to be an unsubsidized side deal all along?…it could just be that the County and the CVB are agreeing to kick in a total of $10 Million between them which would not reduce the project by a dime and would simply shift $10 Million of the corporate welfare away from the City of Evansville coffers and onto theirs?…whatever happens the time to make a deal in the original agreement with the Branson, MO based hotel developer expired yesterday?…before continuing the discussions there needs to be an extension to the agreement to negotiate ratified?…all discussions until that point are nothing by simple discussions with no legal standing?…any agreement that shakes down the County and the CVB for part of the $37.5 Million subsidy does not reduce the subsidy at all it only changes the taxpayer base that the subsidy is coming from?
IS IT TRUE after a series of reader’s polls it is clear that the demographic that makes up the readership of the City County Observer has no interest in seeing Evansville City Councilman Jonathan Weaver considered as a viable candidate for the Democrat nominee for Mayor of Evansville in 2015?…during the last few weeks Mr. Weaver has lost polls to Sheriff Eric Williams, Troy Tornatta, former Mayor Weinzapfel, Councilman John Friend, and a real live dog from Nashville named BLUE?
Good news for the 2nd Ward voters and our city council members.
I hope that the new person that replaces Mosby shall get along with better with the public and city council members.
I hear all see does is cause trouble on Council.
Yeah!!! Bye bye Mosby and Weaver.
Mosby needs to go and so does her buddy Weaver.
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My fellow cops will also be glad If she is not re-elected. All see does is get in the way of good police work.
We run and hide every time we see Missy and her side kick Weaver coming in the police station.
I know that her opponent shall get the overwhelming majority votes from the police officer and their family members.
It’s time for a change!
I don’t think that Rumplebeancounter and Mayor McClintock are bright enough to realize that you don’t go and done tick off the auditor. They will be back! This is especially true in Indiana where state statue states that the State Board is the only one who can perform their audits.
Good theory but when they send in a non-CPA named Airhead to do the job this time don’t expect it to be very thorough. Heard they are putting a bunch of rookies on the assignment too.
I hear this Airhead woman had a long affair with the prior State Board supervisor and that’s why she is as far up as she is today. How can we trust the State Board to give us a good report when shenanigans like this goes on?
The fire fighters and key department heads are also tired of Missy Mosby knows it all attitude.
She does nothing but play political games and kisses the Mayors b— daily. She lacks talent, class and intelligents to represents this fair city as an elected official.
I still have a problem with this proposed hotel deal. Forcing taxpayers to fund an incentive package for $35.million for a hotel that will have an assessed value roughly equal to the incentive package, but leave the taxpayers with no ownership stake, seems like wiping your feet on the taxpayers once again.
I really believe the taxpayers have had enough of this type of local government.
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$37.5 Million
It’s so sad that you get elected not on merit but on your last name and spending a lot of time in bars.
We also don’t like the that Mosby women butting in our business.
The water department workers also hide when they see her walking around the work place. Everything is political with her.
Who ever runs against her in the primary shall beat her like a drum. They have my vote.
“if it turns out to be the case that the Johnson Controls meters can be installed cost effectively through a planned routine replacement schedule over 20 or 30 years” When the private companies ran the water dept the contract stipulated 5% of the meters get replaced every year. Some you can test clean up an put back in service. Our meter dept has or had a great in house testing facility. It has not been used in years. Industrial meter testing has been out sourced. In house testing has been eliminated. Most utilities our size do there own testing an maintenance on larger meters. This is because you can lose a lot of revenue fast with a defective industrial meter. For there own reasons the utility decided about ten years ago to quit doing this in house. As far as I know none of the industrial meters were change since then until recently. This is in my opinion a bad business practice. Poor business practices are not illegal but they can cost money.
“Our meter dept has or had a great in house testing facility. It has not been used in years.”
Because perhaps someone figured there is no incentive to save on next year’s budget. Why send the message you can operate efficiently on a smaller budget?
100% agreed on the emerging JCI water meters revelations from yesterday. If these meters are already being bought up on a routine maintenance budget, why the urgent need to borrow all this money?
An even better question is why are we not offering the people of Evansville a choice between metered and unmetered billing?
My poem for the day:
Though this poll does not contain “Weaver”
I wont be voting in this poll either
Put “Rick Davis” on the poll!
Missy Mosby has got to go.
Eric Williams cannot relate
To the average person incarnate
Troy Tornatta is a mayor we all should fear
Carol McClintock is the puppeteer.
Now we are stuck with Winnecke
Because of petty jealousy in the blue party
All that’s left are dummies and crooks
I’d Pick Rick to right the books
Although you may expect a rhyme to end
My beautiful poem – I say amen
But all I’m left to say
Is Weinzapfel stinks – stank – stunk – ok?
There once was a Councilman Weaver
Whose way was that of deceiver
He hooked up with Missy
They both got real pissy
and the voters pulled someone else’s lever
Could it be that department heads had $dollars left in their budgets–and it is a case of using/spending it or loosing it–so they used it?
I wish whomever is running against Missy would announce his/her intentions so that I could contribute to the campaign. and can I get a yard sign?
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