AGENDA
Vanderburgh County
Board of Commissioners
May 9, 2017
3:00 pm, Room 301
- Vanderburgh County Commissioners May 9, 2017 Meeting Agenda
A STORYBOOK ENDING FOR ALWAYS DREAMING
America’s Best Racing (ABR), a multimedia fan development and awareness-building platform of The Jockey Club, today released a new feature video, “ABR Wired: A Storybook Ending for Always Dreaming.â€
What is it like being part of the ownership group of the favorite for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands? Even better, what is it like to win the run for the roses, America’s most celebrated horse race? Follow along with America’s Best Racing for a compelling behind-the-scenes look as Terry Finley, a minority owner of Always Dreaming and the president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds, experiences a scintillating 2017 Kentucky Derby at historic Churchill Downs.
WATCH “ABR Wired: A Storybook Ending for Always Dreamingâ€: https://www.americasbestracing.net/videos/2017-abr-wired-storybook-ending-always-dreaming
The owners of Always Dreaming are MeB Racing Stables, Brooklyn Boyz Stables, Teresa Viola Racing Stables, St. Elias Stable, Siena Farm and West Point Thoroughbreds. MeB Stables and Brooklyn Boyz Stable are the racing names for MaryEllen and Anthony Bonomo, respectively, of New York. St. Elias Stable and Teresa Viola Racing Stables are the racing operations of Vincent Viola and his wife, Teresa. Vincent, also a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, is the owner of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers. Anthony R. Manganaro, Nacho Patino and David Pope founded Siena Farm on 225 acres in Paris, Ky., and West Point Thoroughbreds is the racing partnership founded by West Point Academy graduate Terry Finley. West Point finished second in the 2014 Kentucky Derby with Commanding Curve.
Finley, a former Army captain and airborne ranger, presides over West Point Thoroughbreds Inc., a horse racing partnership management company he founded in 1991. West Point Thoroughbreds currently manages equine portfolios for over 500 partners and a stable of over 70 horses. Their horses have earned over $40 million in purses and won over 700 races. They have campaigned nine Grade 1 winners and their partners have 41 graded stakes wins over the years.
Making cameo appearances in this original ABR Wired feature are celebrity chef and Thoroughbred owner, Bobby Flay, along with Finley’s wife, Debbie, and son, Ryan.
IS IT TRUE MAY 9, 2017
IS IT TRUE that a  well known local pastor and 2nd Ward resident Steve Ary asked members of the Evansville City Council a couple financial questions during last night’s council meeting?  … City Council President Missy Mosby refused to answer pastor Ary’s pointed questions concerning the utilities costs and payments issues at the Ford Center?  …Missy Mosby announced that he will receive an answer to his questions vie mail from legal counsel in the near future?
IS IT TRUE that pastor Ary is also the editor/publisher of the monthly Vanderburgh Independent Press (The VIP)? …this monthly publication has a strong conservative and religious bent?  … that At-Large City Councilwoman Michelle Mercer (R) stated that his being the editor of a monthly newspapers is the reason why City Council should refused to be transparent in answering his questions concerning utilities costs and payments of the Ford Center?
IS IT TRUE we are surprised to learn that a citizen of Evansville 2nd ward and the editor/publisher of a monthly conservative and religious bent publications seemly have no rights when it came to his receiveing answers from City Council to questions regarding city business? …we strongly believe that Council members Missy Mosby (D) and Michelle Mercer (R) has a responsibility to be totally transparent concerning the finances of this city regardless of who is asking the questions or how they feel about person asking them? …just in case you need to know that the other 6 remaining Council members just in silence watching all this go down?
IS IT TRUE its important to point out that pastor and newspaper publisher Steve Ary has been a tax-paying resident of Evansville nearly his entire life? … that he and his family lives in Missy Mosby’s 2nd Ward? …that Pastor Ary inquiry on how our city tax dollars are spent on the Ford Center could had been handled by either by City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr, Council Finance Chairman Dan McGinn (R), accounting expert Councilwoman Anne Harris-CPA (R), DMD Executive Director-Kelley Cources because they were at the meeting?
IS IT TRUE we are amazed that pastor Ary was singled-out by select members of the Evansville City Council because he is an editor and publisher of a local monthly newspaper? .. Its obvious that pastor and editor/publisher Steve Ary was being discriminated against by two (2) members of the Evansville City Council because of his employment?  …that someone should tell Council members Missy Mosby and Michelle Mercer that there are Federal and State laws that protect people from being discriminated because of their line of work?
IS IT TRUE its been alleged by Pastor Ary that City Council attorney,  Josh Claybourne, advised  him if he does not “announce himself as being with the media†when he at the podium, that he can ask question the Council as a constituent of the 2nd Ward, and therefore he can receive the answers to his questions? …that after taking Claybourne’s advise, pastor Steve did not announced himself as a member of  the media, but rather, as pastor and citizen of  the 2nd Ward?  …that Councilwoman Mosby still refused to answer his questions about governmental issues?  …we wonder who came up with the policy that members of the media can’t ask any questions concerning city business at any official city council meeting?
 IS IT TRUE that we were given the actual questions pastor Steve Ary asked City Council during last nights meeting? …that you can read those questions below?
 1. How much are the annual utility bills for gas, electric, and water at the Ford Center?
 2. Who pays for the Ford Center utility bills? Is it the City, VenuWorks, or is it both?  If it is both, what is that cost ratio?
3. Did the Evansville Redevelopment Commission write any checks to cover either full or part of the Ford Center utilities bills?
3. Did the Evansville Redevelopment Commission write any checks to cover either full or part of the Ford Center utilities bills?
4) Recently the ERC approved a contract between VenuWorks and the ERC. Â Does this contract make the city taxpayers responsible for all the debts incurred by the Evansville Thunderbolts Hockey team during the 2016-17 season?
IS IT TRUE that the people of this city deserve answers to paster Steve Ary’s questions,?  … we feel that any members of the local media should be treated with equality, and not as a second class citizen?  …we hope that pastor Ary and newspapers editor /publisher sues members of city council because they discriminated against because of his line of work?
TODAYS “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that any member of the media should be allowed to ask any questions concerning city business during any official city council meeting
CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Evansville City Council Gives Green-Light For New Costco Store
Evansville City Council Gives Green-Light For New Costco Store
Evansville City Council approved the construction of a new Costco store A re-zoning for the store passed a second reading at Monday night’s council meeting. The new Costco will be built along the block of North Burkhardt Road. Costco…
EVSC Hosts United Champions Special Olympics
EVSC Hosts United Champions Special Olympics
Tuesday, May 9
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Central High School Stadium
Middle School students in Life Skills classes in the EVSC will participate in the United Champions Special Olympics tomorrow, May 9, at Central High School Stadium. Students along with their peer partners will participate in various track and field activities.
Adopt A Pet
Dusty is a male yellow Lab. He’s only 4 years old. He is heartworm-positive, but his treatment is included in his adoption fee at no extra cost to his new family. Dusty can be picky about his dog friends, so he needs to meet any other dogs in his new potential home prior to adoption. He has a hot spot on his leg that he keeps licking, but the VHS team is working on helping him leave it alone so it can heal. Dusty’s $100 adoption fee includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, heartworm treatment, and more! Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
USI Softball nets No. 2 seed, hosting duties for NCAA Regional
University of Southern Indiana Softball was awarded the No. 2 seed for this week’s NCAA Division II Midwest Region Tournament and the right to host one of the two four-team brackets in an announcement by the national office Monday morning.
The Midwest Regional will take place Thursday through Saturday at the USI Softball Field.
USI (41-12) will square off with the No. 7 seed, Grand Valley State University, in the opening round Thursday at 2:30 p.m., while the No. 3 seed, Saginaw Valley State University, will take on the No. 6 seed, the University of Indianapolis, Thursday at noon to begin the tournament.
The winner of the USI-GVSU bout will take on the winner of the SVSU-UIndy contest in game three of the tournament Friday at noon; while the losers of those contests will meet in an elimination game Friday at 2:30 p.m.
Three games are slated to take place Friday as the final contest will feature the loser of game three versus the winner of game four in another elimination contest.
The championship will take place Saturday at noon, while the “if necessary†game is Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
On the other side of the bracket, the top-seeded University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons host the No. 8 seed, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Thursday in St. Louis; while the No. 5 seed, Truman State University, takes on the No. 4 seed, Wayne State University, in the opening round Thursday in St. Louis.
The winners of the two regionals will square off in a best-of-three Super-Regional May 18-19 at the highest seed.
USI, ranked No. 6 in last week’s national poll, is hosting an NCAA II regional tournament for the first time in program history. The Screaming Eagles, who are meeting Grand Valley State in the opening round for the third consecutive year, went a combined 6-2 against the Midwest Region field this year, including 3-1 against their sub-regional.
The Eagles defeated Grand Valley State to begin the 2015 NCAA II Midwest Region Tournament in St. Louis, but suffered a loss to the Lakers in the first round of the 2016 NCAA II Midwest Region Tournament in Indianapolis. USI defeated the Lakers, 5-0, at The Spring Games in March and swept a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader from Indianapolis in April; but suffered a 4-3 setback to Saginaw Valley State in February.
Special Report: Trump To Nominate Notre Dame Professor To 7th Circuit
Special Report: Trump To Nominate Notre Dame Professor To 7th Circuit
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President Donald Trump reportedly plans to nominate Notre Dame Law School professor Amy Coney Barrett to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Barrett would take the Indiana seat on the Chicago-based appellate court left vacant by the retirement of former Circuit Judge John Tinder in February 2015. Trump’s plans to nominate Barrett were reported by news services and legal websites, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and ABA Journal.
Barrett has been a professor at Notre Dame since 2002. Prior, she worked in private practice and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Former President Barack Obama nominated Myra Selby to the seat, but Selby, an Ice Miller LLP partner and former Indiana Supreme Court justice, never received a hearing from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Barrett and Notre Dame Law School officials could not immediately be reached for comment Monday. Republican Sen. Todd Young said in a statement, “I could not be more pleased with the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the federal bench. During the vetting process, I had the chance to interview Mrs. Barrett and expressed to the White House my belief that she would be a home run pick. I’m glad the President views her with as much regard as I do. With this selection, President Trump continues to demonstrate a knack for nominating individuals to the federal bench who will faithfully interpret the Constitution of the United States. Mrs. Barrett’s qualifications should make for a swift, bipartisan confirmation process.â€
Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly’s office is waiting for the announcement by Trump before commenting.