IS IT TRUE that the whole dust up over the Reverend Adrian Brooks of the Memorial Baptist Church calling Evansville DMD Director Kelley Coures a liar over a $300,000 subsidy to purchase the building that the now shut down grocery store has taken an interesting turn?…that Reverend Brooks being the gentleman that he is has acknowledged that Director Coures was truthful with his statement?…that came after a document bearing both of their signatures was unearthed?…the whole sordid tale of the grocery building is a long and sad one where two banks and a couple of public agencies were owed nearly $1.2 Million on mortgages against the property?…it has been reported that the non-profit that Brooks heads bought the property for a total of $400,000 meaning that the lenders took it in the shorts to the tune of $800,000?…it also seems that the $300,000 plus an additional $150,000 for inventory at the store came from the taxpayers meaning that the Reverend Brooks leveraged the start-up of the grocery store in a manner that would have made President Trump blush back in his “Art of the Deal†days?
IS IT TRUE the list of losers is long on the failed grocery store venture and the least of the losers is the Memorial Community Development Corporation that came out better than the others by leveraging debt and negotiating like a pro to get the original lenders to take a short payoff?…seemly the biggest losers here are the taxpayers of Evansville who were unwillingly dragged to the table by the City of Evansville not once, not twice, but three times to subsidize a losing business?
IS IT TRUE that the news cycle has gone mute on who is responsible for the potential million dollars in expenses incurred by the City of Evansville because the North Main road was designed/installed six inches too narrow?…this is not a small cost to absorb by the taxpayers because someone failed to pay attention to things like the width of a bus and codes?…someone’s head ought to roll over this amateurish mistake that ranks up there with the truck that got stuck on Diamond Avenue in an overpass and the ballfields where the base paths were designed wrong?…there must be a ruler shortage in Evansville because this sort of thing seems to happen all of the time?
IS IT TRUE we highly recommend that members of the Evansville City Council do a financial assessment on how much of the taxpayer dollars did DMD Director Kelley Coures really spend to purchase the vacant and dilapidated CVS building located on North main?
IS IT TRUE its time for members of the Evansville City Council to conduct a financial assessment on how much money has DMDÂ Director Kelley Coures give or loan to questionable for-profit and/or not-for-profit businesses without proper vetting since he was appointed to this position by Mayor Winnecke?
IS IT TRUE we wonder what committee, group or individuals gave DMD Director Kelley Coures permission to loan a not-for-profit organizations without proper vetting?
IS IT TRUE that for the first time in 3 years the State of Illinois has a budget that passed?…it is a terrible budget with deficit spending and most likely full of crony deals but it is a budget?…Illinois now has an approved plan to head down the highway to hell in a handbasket as opposed to recent history when they simple lived day to day like a coyote on the same highway?…we are sure they are high fiving from Springfield to Chicago for what will surely be called a milestone accomplishment?
Todays READERS POLL question is: Who has done a better job of handling our tax dollars?
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