IS IT TRUE? June 30, 2011
IS IT TRUE that it is now the day of reckoning for the development agreement between the Evansville Redevelopment Commission and Woodruff Hospitality LLC?…For all practical purposes if Woodruff Hospitality LLC does not close the financing today the ERC is back to square one and will be issuing a Request For Proposal at their next meeting on July 5th?…that they have stated that the deadline to respond to the forthcoming RFP will be July 19th?…that there are only two potential bidders for this RFP and that those two potential bidders are the separated shareholders of Woodruff Hospitality LLC?…that this seems to be a self limiting plan on the part of the ERC?…that this process would have a better probability of success in attracting new outside interest if the forthcoming RFP has a response date closer to Labor Day?
IS IT TRUE that back in January that Woodruff Hospitality LLC was talking about a construction cycle of 18 months?…that John Kish, arena project manager is on record as stating that even with the best case of a mid July closing of a finance package that a Spring 2012 opening will be on schedule?…that Spring of 2012 will end about 11 months from the best case response date of July 19th?…that Mr. Kish must be assuming that the construction project cycle will be reduced by 7 months just because it is convenient to be that way?…that is a real stretch for a guy who has managed the Arena project pretty much according to the original schedule?…that Mr. Kish must not be familiar with the old adage that “2 women can not birth a baby in 4 1/2 months”?…that some things have a gestation period that is best not altered by much?…that maybe with this kind of paradigm that we are heading for a “premature hotel”?…that there seems to be a whole lot of running out the clock going on in and around the Civic Center these days?
IS IT TRUE that the reader’s questions keep coming in regarding the INSIDER DEALS that seem to have happened with the sales of Skyboxes and Loge Seating in the Evansville Arena?…that there is quite an outrage within our readership of people who can afford and would have had an interest in the available options?…that doing INSIDER DEALS for premium seating smacks of arrogance and preferential treatment?…that these kinds of INSIDER DEALS are just too common in the governance of the City of Evansville?…that these kinds of deals that award premium seats preferentially to hand-picked people not only under prices the seating but creates a state of an aristocracy or even an oligarchy in a city that claims to be inclusive?…that the Evansville aristocracy seems to have been given deals on premium seating that is paid for with public money and that the public never had any opportunity to purchase this seating?…that this is about as honest and transparent as concert promoters taking all of the best seats to an event and fencing them on Stubhub.com for more than the face value?
IS IT TRUE that the temporary contract with VenuWorks mandates ERC approval for long term contracts?…that no such contracts have been approved in a public meeting?…that this business by virtue of the Indiana Sunshine Laws should be conducted in public?…that the City County Observer has asked nicely for copies of any seating contracts for the new Arena?…that we have waited three days and have not received anything?…that the ball was tossed to Mr. Kish?…that we shall be filing another Freedom of Information Act request this week?…that it is ludicrous that we have to resort to such tactics to force transparency from the management of the Arena project?
IS IT TRUE that it was absolutely refreshing to see a real time pair of position papers released by the two candidates for Mayor of Evansville yesterday?…that in this case they agreed albeit for different reasons that the proposal from the ECTA for 12 tennis courts at Wesselman Park should not receive public funding or public land?…that we look forward to more situations where position papers are needed?…that the topics screaming for position papers are the Executive Inn Dilemma, the McCurdy, the EPA compliant CSO plan, reforming our City Parks, the local Economy, execution of any plans, and staffing in the Civic Center?…that the for the majority of June the candidates have been strangely silent?…that we were beginning to fear PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS may have been setting in?…that the time to start disclosing plans is now?
“IS IT TRUE that it was absolutely refreshing to see a real time pair of position papers released by the two candidates for Mayor of Evansville yesterday (regarding the tennis facility)”
Is it true that front page still contains the story on Davis’s position date stamped June 29, TWO DAYS ago, not yesterday? Is it true that this same media outlet published a Winnecke’s position prior to printing Davis’s position? Yet the front page now shows Winnecke’s position as if it were just released today? Strange.
Not at all. It was driving lots of traffic which we like and the only way in wordpress to repost is to change the date. It keeps the last 15 articles live. Wea re all about keeping articles that drive traffic live.
Please provide the “real time” chronology of when each candidate’s position was released and when it was published. That would be helpful in determining how responsive each candidate is to topical issues, and how prompt each candidate is in responding to media requests for position statements.
Good idea
Winneckes position paper came in before lunch on the 28th. Davis’s came at about 7PM the same day.
Thank you. That clears up the timeline quite nicely.
Excuse me, I typed June 29 for the time stamp of Davis’s release, when now on the front page it’s dated June 28. But it was only posted up yesterday, in fact. This is getting more strange.
It was posted late on the 28th. His email came at about 7pm
I feel if you are going to change the date of the article about Winnecke’s position, you should change the date of Davis’ article to keep them together, or include a link in the Winneke article to the Davis article. Anything less seems snegal-ish and shows signs of favoritism.
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