CITY OF EVANSVILLE TO STOP PAYING BILLS UNLESS IT’S AN EMERGENCY

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The attached memo was circulated to over 50 people associated with City Government but not to members to the Evansville City Council. We were told by reliable sources that today at noon the At-Large City Councilman Jonathan Weaver and Chairman of the Finance Committee will be filing an amendment to proposed 2019 city budget.  The amendment requests to be filed by Mr. Weaver will demand that  Mayor Winnecke cut his proposed 2019 City Budget by $3 million dollars. 

We have been saying during the last several years that the City of Evansville is spending beyond their means.  All we heard from the Mayor and Controller offices was crickets.  We hope that this memo we prove our claim that the City of Evansville financial condition is extremely questionable. This is definitely a developing story.

COPY OF THE MEMO WAS SENT TO OVER 50 PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH CITY GOVERNMENT BY CITY CONTROLLER RUSS LLOYD JR., CPA.

Effective Thursday, September 27th, the following steps will be implemented:

  1. Any current open full-time positions should remain open until Jan. 1, 2019
  2. Travel not previously scheduled will NOT be approved
  3. Office Supply purchases will NOT be approved unless it is an emergency
  4. The Purchasing Department will review all outstanding unfilled Purchase Orders (POs) for potential closure
  5. Purchases using blanket purchase orders will no longer be approved.  Invoices dated up to 09/27/18 will be paid on existing purchase orders.  Any emergency purchases should be entered on a new requisition.  The actual item required for purchase must be listed on the requisition.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Russell Lloyd, Controller

FOOTNOTE: It looks like former City Council President and Finance Chairman John Friends, CPA predictions that the City Of Evansville deficit spending habits could start catching up with them in the 2018 and 209 budgets years may be spot on. 

 

 

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Wow, would this have prevented the Mayor from taking a road trip with Kelly Coures to Kentucky on the day of the President’s visit to our fair City?

  2. the lets spend that money mayor and kelly road trip…………..could be more to it…..just sayin…….

  4. Oh oh. Let’s see, city worker insurance past due, about 3 million dollars. Council asking for a 3 million dollar cut to the 2019 budget. I wonder if that is a coincidence? But heh, new 28 million dollar state of the art swimming pool in Garvin Park. Learn to live within your budget like we citizens have to do!

  5. More bad news for Mister Mayor. The bids to move the LST that they allocated 4 million for have come in 4.4 million to 6.3 million dollars. As usual someone didn’t do their homework.

  6. Sad to see this, McDonald and LLoyd were the last smart mayors. I don’t blame Lloyd, the city council members are the problem. The current and last mayor have been losers. No surprises here.

  7. Btw, allegedly, the CEO of ONB was accompanying our Mayor and Coures on the KY trip. According to reliable sources, Pence does not care much for our dear Mayor. Imagine, while Pence is flying back with Trump on Air Force One, and Trump says, ” why wasn’t the Mayor of Evansville not at the airport to greet me,” and then that is where Pence chimes in. We all know by now how Trump responds to being disc. Old Kelly might be surprised to see that those Federal Grant funds reduced in 2019.

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