MAY 18, 2017 “READERS FORUM”

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Whats on your mind today?

Todays “READERS POLL” question is”Do you feel that our elected officials knowingly withheld information concerning who is paying the utilities bills at the Ford Center?

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11 COMMENTS

  1. Can a taxpayer funded box lacrosse team, or whole league for that matter, be far behind? Is a super box lacrosse fan waiting in the wings to be the front end with no liability? Maybe a taxpayer/VenuWorks owned aging rock band, with VW owning the concession concession and us owning the light bill.

    • Your Lacrosse fan should be easy to locate. I hear that they have an insatiable urge to donate to the Winnecke campaign fund. You will find such a person hiding under downtown paving stones. Just fire up the ole Victrola with a few bars of the Chicken Fat song, and he/she will be dancing in the street.

      Perhaps another good reason to switch our beaming venue to a chicken coup…underemployed fryer hens saved from the fryer by the Chicken Fat song need shelter.

      We use to be a city of first, first refrigeration, first plastics, first retail Sears store, first Indiana mall, perhaps the first or largest Indiana stadium in its day, could we be home of the world’s first “all hen lacrosse team?” The “Chicken Hawkers.” We have more than enough hawkers selling their goods to crack this egg. Even if it is a net loss for the taxpayer and arena it will be a gain for the arena’s bottom line…so I have been told. We could pit the Chicken Hawkers against the room 302 Blunder-Bolts. Now that would draw a crowd of a thousand or more free ticket holders and the money would flow like a backed up storm sewer.

  2. According to the head dude at VenuWorks, the convoluted method of paying the utilities was hatched by Harding Schmanski & Co? Why doesn’t a separate Ford Fund established whereby all activity would be booked giving complete transparency. How many times has the public heard the Ford Center losses were 300k but in actuality the losses are over 1 million. Coupled with the Victory Theatre losses, the taxpayers are footing the bills approaching 2 million for both facilities. And now instead of receiving approx $360k from Geary, we will be receiving only $28k and of course guaranteeing the VW will not loss $$$. Folks, we have noting short of a financial wizard in the Mayor’s office.

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