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A POST TO THE EDITOR FROM ClassyEvillepolitics

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A Comment From Classykvillepolitics We Felt Worth Re-posting.
Feb 9, 2016 at 12:18 pm

Dear CCO Editors

I agree completely with you in regards to the City Council meetings needing to continue to be verbatim.

If Miss Mosby decides as President to encourage such an action, I would hope the City Council takes an actual vote on this. I find it to be the epitome of sneagal for such a decision to be made by the President only.

Furthermore, I would encourage readers to note that ALL the major Councils, Boards, and Commissions in Evansville and Vanderburgh County do verbatim transcription of their meetings. I find it to be an extremely bad precedent for the City Council to suddenly make this type of operational change after just a few public meetings.

For the record, the Open Door Law requires (per Indiana Code 5-14-1.5-4(b)) that memoranda of meetings be maintained:

As the meeting progresses, the following memoranda shall be kept:
(1) The date, time, and place of the meeting.
(2) The members of the governing body recorded as either present or absent.
(3) The general substance of all matters proposed, discussed, or decided.
(4) A record of all votes taken, by individual members if there is a roll call.
(5) Any additional information required under Indiana Code 5-1.5-2-2.5 or Indiana Code 20-12-63-7.

Part of what the Open Door Law covers are the recordings of the meeting. A public agency such as the City Council is withing the “spirit” of the Open Door law by using recordings of the meetings,

Furthermore, the City Council is NOT legally obliged to transcribe verbatim the tape recording. The Open Door Law’s memoranda requirements do not require a verbatim transcript of a meeting, and the Access to Public Records Act does not require a public agency to create a record that it is not legally required to create.

In conclusion, I would like to know the actual reason that Miss Mosby has suddenly pounced on the change from transcribed to just using the audio files. Audio only files are hideous for a variety of reasons, least of all that if a person does not properly use the microphone, then what they said is lost.

 

AG Zoeller To Testify Before U.S. House Subcommittee

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WHO:
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller

WHAT:
Testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

WHEN:
Thursday, Feb. 11, 1 p.m. ET

WHERE:
U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
2128 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

WHY:
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller will testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit tomorrow in opposition to new rules proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would preempt state authority to regulate small loan lending and consumer access to credit.

Zoeller says the CFPB’s proposal will create a vast regulatory framework at a national level that would constrict the small loan market and force Hoosiers in need of small loans to turn to less scrupulous offerings.

YESTERDAY-“Haynie Day”

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Mayor William Dress (left) sits next to George W. Haynie during “Haynie Day” on May 19, 1937. The location was the Woods Drug Store at the junction of Second Street, Parrett Street, and Adams Avenue. The event celebrated the re-opening of the store, which had been heavily damaged by a major flood earlier in the year. Haynie, who was nicknamed the “Mayor of Goosetown,” operated a pharmacy on the site from 1886 to 1928, when he sold the store to H. A. Woods. Today the area is still known as Haynie’s Corner.

FOOTNOTE: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.

Complaint Alleges Misappropriation Of Civil Forfeiture Proceeds

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Complaint Alleges Misappropriation Of Civil Forfeiture Proceeds

by Marilyn Odendahl for www.theindianalawyer.com

Charging Indianapolis law enforcement is illegally keeping millions of dollars from civil forfeitures, a national legal organization filed a complaint Wednesday in Marion Superior Court to stop the flow of proceeds into city coffers.

The Institute for Justice, a national organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, filed the lawsuit on behalf of three Indiana couples. It claims that the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, the city of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are dividing the civil forfeitures funds among themselves rather than forwarding the money to the public schools as required by Article 8, Section 2 of the state’s constitution.

“Each year, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of private property – even millions – is the subject of civil-forfeiture actions in Marion county courts, but police and prosecutors have sent not a single penny of civil-forfeiture revenue to the common school fund in at least the last five years,” the complaint states.

The plaintiffs are asking the state court to issue a permanent injunction preventing the agencies from keeping any forfeited property or proceeds from its sale. If the court denies that remedy for relief, the plaintiffs ask that the defendants be prohibited from retaining any more than their actual costs related to the civil forfeiture action.

In addition, the parties are requesting an award of nominal damages in the amount of $1.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office did not return messages seeking comment.

The complaint details the practice of forfeiture funds being split 30/70 between the prosecutor’s office and the police, respectively.  During 2011 and 2012, the lawsuit alleges, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office kept an average of $459,848 each year out of an average of roughly $1.5 million that was awarded annually from forfeiture actions.

Indiana’s Civil Forfeiture Statute allows police and prosecutors to deduct the costs associated with the civil forfeiture proceedings before the money is sent to the common school fund. However, the lawsuit asserts the diversion of funds violates the “plain text” of the Indiana Constitution which “requires that ‘all’ forfeitures – not ‘some’ forfeitures – be sent to the school fund.”

Moreover, the complaint maintains Indianapolis police and prosecutors are interpreting the Civil Forfeiture Statutes incorrectly.

“Under this mistaken reading of the law, police and prosecutors retain staggering sums from forfeiture proceeds by wrongly characterizing them as reimbursement for ‘law enforcement costs,’” the lawsuit stated. “Rather than accurately represent to the courts the amounts needed to cover their actual costs in forfeiture cases, the Defendants have reached agreements among themselves to parcel out all of the property they seize and forfeit.”

The complaint, Jeana M. Horner, Dennis Jack Horner, Jennifer K. Thompson, et al. v Terry R. Curry, Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, Consolidated City of Indianapolis/Marion County, et al., 49D06-1602-PL-004804, was filed in Marion Superior Court, Civil Division 6.

BERNIE

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ADOPT A PET

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UE men’s basketball ready for second-place battle against ISU

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Aces and Redbirds to battle on Thursday at the Ford Center 

The stakes are getting high as we move to the stretch run of the season as the University of Evansville men’s basketball team welcomes Illinois State to the Ford Center in a battle for second place in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Both squads enter the game with identical 8-4 conference marks and will battle it out for sole possession of the #2 spot in the league in an 8 p.m. game that will be carried live on the CBS Sports Network.

Evansville scored the first three points of the game and never trailed, taking down Missouri State by a final of 83-64 on Saturday at the Ford Center.  Jaylon Brown led Evansville with 19 points, tying his career high.  He connected on 3 of his 5 3-point attempts and all four free throws in the win.  D.J. Balentine scored 18 points, all in the second half, to break Colt Ryan’s program scoring mark; Balentine now has 2,280 in his career.  Willie Wiley totaled 8 points over 15 minutes of play as he hit 4 out of 5 free throws.

There is a new scoring leader in University of Evansville history – D.J. Balentine.  With 18 points against the Bears, Balentine passed Colt Ryan’s mark of 2,279 points.  Balentine now has 2,280 points in his career, which has seen him play 130 games.  The senior has moved into 6th in MVC history and 13th in Indiana Division I basketball history.

Should D.J. Balentine lead the MVC in scoring again, the Aces will have had the leading scorer in the league in four of the last eight years; Balentine will have led three years in a row while Shy Ely led the Valley in 2008-09.  It would also make UE have a top two scorer in the league in seven out of eight seasons and a top three scorer in all 8 years.

If Egidijus Mockevicius can keep his average of 14 rebounds, he would be the first since Xavier McDaniel of Wichita State to average that many; McDaniel notched 14.8 per game in 1985.  The last MVC player to average at least 10 boards was Joe Breakenridge of UNI, who had 10.5/game in 2001.  Mockevicius currently stands at 350 rebounds this season, he is just 20 away from moving into a tie for 36th in MVC history.  Wes Unseld holds the single-season rebounding mark with 533 in 1966-67 while the last players to make the top 36 list were Xavier McDaniel & Benoit Benjamin (Creighton), who each had 451 in 1984-85.

On the heels of a 58-53 home win over Wichita State, Illinois State heads to Evansville with a 14-11 overall mark and 8-4 in Missouri Valley Conference play.  Since falling to the Purple Aces on January 15, Illinois State has won five out of their last six games.  DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell is the leading scorer for the Redbirds, averaging 14.6 points per game; he is second on the squad with 5 rebounds.  MiKyle McIntosh has notched 11.1 points while Deontae Hawkins (10.6) and Paris Lee (10.5) also average double figures.  In the win over the Shockers, Lee posted 19 points while Hawkins finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds.

Make their heart race this Valentine’s Day

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This Valentine’s Day, let your special someone know your love is eternal. Name one of Wesselman Woods Nature Center’s Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches for your sweetie. Tens of thousands of roaches remain nameless each year and would make a great symbol of your love. For your $10 donation, we’ll send your loved one a digital certificate to their email on Valentine’s Day, to cherish for years to come, featuring the name of your Valentine’s roach.

You’ll also be able to visit your roach in the New Wesselman Woods Nature Center opening this Spring.

Your donation will also help us protect and care for these misunderstood love bugs, along with the rest of our animals, big & small.

As they say, roaches make the heart beat faster.
Name Your Roach Now

Dillard’s Presents Check to Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley for Profits of Southern Living Christmas Cookbook

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  Dillard’s in Evansville, Indiana is pleased to continue their commitment to local charities.  For the past seven years, Dillard’s has offered a special custom edition of the Southern Living Christmas Cookbook. They are available in stores from October through December for $10.00 each. All proceeds of sales go straight to Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley, right here in Evansville.

Dillard’s will present a check to Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley in the amount of $9,420 on Thursday, February 11, 2016, 10:00 A.M. at Dillard’s, Eastland Mall, 800 N. Green River Rd. Evansville, IN.  Please enter through any of the Eastland Mall entrances.

Since 1994, Dillard’s has raised more than $12.3 million for Ronald McDonald House Charities! Locally, theSouthern Living Christmas Cookbook fundraiser has raised over $100,000!

 

“We’re very appreciative of our friends at Dillard’s for their ongoing commitment to Ronald McDonald House Charities,” said Theresa Floyd-Maas, Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley- Executive Director; “Their support helps us impact the lives of over 1,000 children, parents and extended family members annually.”

 

To learn more about Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley’s mission and its programs, visit:www.rmhcohiovalley.org.

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