We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUEâ€Â will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?Â
IS IT TRUE at tonights City Council meeting an Ordinance Regarding City of Evansville Funds Allocated to ECHO Housing Corp will be discussed? …co-sponsors are Justin Elpers, Jonathan Weaver and discussion will be led by Finance Chairman Weaver?  …we hope that members the Evansville City Council will not approve any request to release any funds for ECHO Housing  Corp. without seeing a formal copy of the Forensic Audit conducted by an outside Accounting firm?  …we are hearing that the ECHO Housing Forensic Audit may have been completed and the Evansville Police Department told officials at ECHO Housing not to release any Audit information until their investigation is completed?  …this investigation has been going on for the last eight months and it’s time that the findings be released to the Media, DMD Director, ECHO Housing Board of Directors, the Mayor, and members of City Council?
IS IT TRUE at tonights City Council meeting City ORDINANCE F-2018-25 will be presented for discussion? Â …the Ordinance reads; “An Ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Authorizing Transfers of Appropriations, Additional Appropriations and Repeal and Re-Appropriation of Funds for Various City Funds Sponsor(s)”? …we trust that members of City Council will ask pointed questions why this ordinance is needed at this late date in the 2018 budget cycle? …that the discussion of this Ordinance will be led by Finance Chairman Jonathan Weaver and Russ Lloyd, Jr., City Controller?
IS IT TRUE last week we posted that the newly elected County Commissioner of Vanderburgh County was offered free tickets to professional sporting events from someone who does business with the county? …that County Commissioner-elect Jeff Hatfield declined the free ticket offer? …we also reported that he also declined an offer by another County vendor to wine and dine him at an expensive restaurant? Â …we are told that Commissioner-elect Jeff Hatfield also said he won’t accept any gifts of any kind from anyone doing business or want to do business with the county? Â …were informed that Mr. Hatfield fellow Commissioners (Cheryl Musgrave and Ben Shoulders) had the same experiences with vendors doing business with the County? Â …we are pleased to hear that Mrs. Musgrave and Mr. Shoulders also declined free gifts from vendors?
IS IT TRUEÂ last week we posted that County Commissioner-elect Jeff Hatfield would like to see engineering, road and construction projects to be put out for competitive bidding? …we look forward to hearing Commissioners Musgrave and Shoulders positions on this issues?
IS IT TRUE Â last week we posted that County Commissioner-elect Jeff Hatfield said: “that will not appoint any members of his immediate family to serve on influential local Boards and Commission”? …he also said; “that he is against the practice of nepotism in the public sector”? Â ..we are also pleased to hear that Mrs. Musgrave and Mr. Shoulders also agree with Commissioner-elect Hatfield on this issue?
IS IT TRUE we are told that several partisan and non-partisan individuals are working on a strategy to defeat the current Mayor of Evansville in the upcoming 2019 City election? …we are told that the major upset victory by Democrat Jeff Hatfield over well known and popular Republican Mike Duckworth has caused major excitement within the Democratic party of Vanderburgh County? …we are told that several disgruntled Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans and non-partisan voters of the City are talking about forming a political coalition in order to find a credible person to run against a Mayor whom they considered to be a tax and spend politician?  …we are told that they also feel if Mike Duckworth can be defeated so can Mayor Winnecke?
IS IT TRUEÂ during the Mid-term election we questioned if the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Nick Hermann has awarded a non-bid “Drug Testing and Tracking” contract to a big political campaign contributor? Â …since that time, we haven’t received any Vanderburgh County Felony Charges reports from his public relations gal? …we look forward to Mr. Hermann to start resending us these reports because the public has a right to know about the who is charged with a felony?
IS IT TRUE that we continue to be impressed by Jon Webb over at the Evansville Courier and Press? Â … kudos to Jon Webb for using his reporter’s skills to reach a highly probable conclusion? Â …we know that Mr. Web has the journalism skills to write an interesting article about local politicians who give no-bid contracts to their big political donors?
IS IT TRUE that Channel 44 Anchor person Amanda Porter does a superb job in bringing us accurate and up-to-date local news of substance?  …that JoJo Genty the Sports Director of News 44 TV has earned the reputation of being extremely informative, detailed, aggressive and creative in providing her viewers with the current sports happenings in our region?  …the above news professionals are some of the reasons why Channel 44 TV is rapidly becoming known as a local news source you can trust and depend on
Todays“Readers Poll†question is: Do you feel that City Council shouldn’t release any funds to ECHO Housing Corp. until they are given a copy of the Forensic Audit report of that agency?
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