IS IT TRUE? July 4, 2011 Freedom of Information Act Revisited
IS IT TRUE that we made a Freedom of Information Act request to the City of Evansville and the Evansville Redevelopment Commission on June 30, 2011 regarding preferred seating in the new Evansville Arena and any approvals that have been granted to recommendations that have been made by VenuWorks under the terms of their temporary consulting agreement with the ERC?…that we have already received a response and that this time the attorney for the Evansville Redevelopment Commission was the responder and that a copy of the response was sent to David Jones, the attorney for the Office of the Mayor of Evansville?…that the response agrees to provide us with the information requested on July 30, 2011, a Saturday which makes Monday August 1, 2011 the first practical day to access the documents?…that the laws regarding Freedom of information Act requests only allow the request to take up to 20 days excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays?…that they couldn’t have stretched this out another day if they tried?…that inquiring minds think there must be something to hide?
IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Redevelopment Commission has followed the example of the Department of Metropolitan Development in taking every available minute allowed by law to respond to our legitimate request under the Freedom of Information Act?…that this makes us all the more suspicious of the contents that we are about to receive?…that we shall certainly be comparing the dates on contracts for seating to the date of approval and ratification of things like pricing plans and marketing plans?…that there are only a few possibilities if the reports of all of these sales are true?…that all dates and transactions are in order but that public discussion was not held for approvals of contracts?…that transactions could have been completed without approval of the ERC?…that if the sales are the truth that those are about the only possibilities?…that neither is a transparent transaction with the people’s property?
IS IT TRUE that we have no problem whatsoever with the fact that the preferred seating in the Arena has been reported as having high demand?…that we applaud the high demand?…that we do have questions and a bit of heartburn about the fact that no public offering of preferred seating was made to the general public?…that choosing the winners in advance in private showings without exposing the contracts to public marketing not only undermines fairness it UNDERPRICES THE PRODUCT?…that from a business perspective when demand is higher than supply it is considered to be poor business practice to fail to expose every interested party to the limited product in order to get the highest return for shareholders?…that in this instance the people of Evansville are the shareholders of this enterprise?…that in a publically traded company that something like this may just trigger a shareholder revolt, an ousted chairman, and possibly even a lawsuit for failure to carry out ones fiducial responsibilities?
IS IT TRUE that the Goosetown Magistrates gathered on a broken park bench Sunday and declared last week to be “meth lab burns down a house week†in Evansville?…that day after day there was a fire or explosion in a house that was caused by a meth lab?…that meth is really becoming a malignancy on life in River City and that some good minds need to find a solution to this scourge?…that Department of Metropolitan Development Director Tom Barnett has educated us to the fact that there are 8,000 houses within the City of Evansville that are dilapidated to the point of being uninhabitable?…that maybe there is one positive thing that a meth lab can result in?…that if a meth lab burned one dilapidated house per day that in 22 years all of the shoddy houses that Mr. Barnett has counted will be gone?…that unless something of a serious positive nature is done with the local economy to raise property values that in 2033 there will be 8,000 newly dilapidated houses to replace the 8,000 that were eliminated?
IS IT TRUE that the following link is a map of vacant housing units in Evansville by zip code?
http://zipatlas.com/us/in/evansville/zip-code-comparison/percentage-vacant-housing-units.htm
CCO: 120 days until the elections, and a 30 day delay for any Public Access Law request (plus the second delay beyond the promised date). Better get a ‘laundry list’ of requests started now ! This reader would like to read, pre-election, a whole lot more about:
1) The true total spending on the Arena;
2) What the ERC has done/ not done in way of its ‘duty’ relevant to the Arena & Hotel; and
3) Relationship between Bingham McHale, Kish, Populous, Hunt Construction and local officials, if any.
I agree with this post 100%
If there is anything you are even curious about, initiate the request now.
1 FOIA per waiting period before the election would grant you 3 wishes from a lying genie…
Except all you can wish for is information that should have been made public in the first place.
Looks like the long muscular arm of Uncle Sam is what it takes to get timely information out of the secretive thugs that run the City of Evansville. Keep it up CCO, bullies fear the truth and try to conceal it. Dummies do too.
If you must use Uncle Sam to beat the truth out of the local government and their lapdogs then let the beatings continue and let the truth be published.
It’s a shame taxpayers have to use FOI to find out what “sneakretive” acts their elected officials and Mr. Kish are up to. Can’t wait to see who received sweetheart deals on the preferred arena seating. This could be a huge campaign issue this election, but only if Mr. Davis suddenly wakes up from his political coma and can connect the dots.
Snegal would love your new word “sneakretive”. It would be precious to Snegal. He would keep it in his ‘sneakret” hiding place.
is it true???
The Shriners Circus may not be at the new arena or Roberts this year???
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