IS IT TRUE we find it interesting that the latest TV ads for Mayor Winnecke includes testimonials about how he has gotten the City’s finances under control?  …these ads are totally misleading and should be immediately taken down? …we trust that the individuals doing the testimonials in these TV ad didn’t know the Mayor recently borrowed $8 million dollars from the Rainey Day and Riverboat funds to pay city employees payroll and past bills because his excessive spending habits?

IS IT TRUE that Cecile Richards the President of the politically embattled Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. annual compensation is whooping $520,000 a year?  .. .we are pleased that the President of the embattled nonprofit Women’s Health-Care Organization is forced to testified before a House government oversight committee to find out how her organization uses more than $500 million in annual Federal funding.  …her annual compensation of $520,000 a year should be an insult to every hard working taxpayer?

IS IT TRUE that the Mayor’s DMD Director said in an email to George Lumley that whatever the Council approves will go toward “property expenses”? …the City Council President said in an email to George Lumley that the funds would be used for Capital Projects and only the purchase of properties? …that George Lumley tried to get a response from the Evansville Brownfields themselves but found that all addresses, phone numbers and contact people led back to the Civic Center and DMD.? …that even a search for a website only returned the City of Evansville’s website?

IS  IT TRUE the Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) had been funding their private extracurricular Evansville Brownfields Corporation with the City of Evansville’s HUD dollars? …the City of Evansville has been told by HUD they were not supposed to use those dollars for land banking?  …that the City of Evansville was supposed to develop the properties purchased and not end up with just a bunch of empty lots?  …that HUD could ask the City of Evansville to repay the funding given to the private EBC?   … this is a good example of land banking out of control?

IS IT TRUE in most parts of the United States, the term Brownfields, and Brownfields organizations describe a focus on Commercial Brownfield properties like filling stations and abandoned manufacturing operations?   …in Evansville Indiana the Evansville Brownfields Corp focus has been on the arts district around Haney’s Corner? …that Evansville has plenty of real Brownfields in the neighborhoods but no one cares or mistakenly thinks the private Evansville Brownfields Corp is working on them?

IS IT TRUE that the private Evansville Brownfields Corp is struggling for funding to care for their Arts District properties now that the HUD money is gone?  …that they are planning to be the bonding agent for the Medical School parking garage so that they can charge a pass through fee to fund their private activities?  … they have no employees and no experience being a bonding agent?  …they will simply take a cut off the top and pass the actual work to a contractor?

IS IT TRUE that the Mayors blight initiative calls for expanding the Brownfields Land Banking operation with a gift out of the riverboat funds of $ 1.5 million without any kind of contract or deliverables?  …the original request was $2.3 million with $1.2 Million going to Administrative expenses?  …that the amount is rumored to be cut to a $700k during current budget negotiations?

The City-County Observer is excited to announce that our annual CCO “OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD” luncheon for 2015.will be held on October 26, 2015 at Tropicana-Evansville Walnut rooms A and B.?   …this years winners of  the “Outstanding Community Services Awards” are: Vanderburgh County Commissioner Joe Kifer, well respected local attorney Joe Harrison, Jr, Indiana State Auditor Suzanne Crouch and former Vanderburgh County Sheriff and 8th District Congressmen Brad Ellsworth,  Dr. Dan Adams, Dr Steven Becker MD, Tracy Zeller, Holly Dunn and Cheryl Musgrave who currently sits on the Vanderburgh County Board of Zoning Appeals and also is a Commissioner on the Evansville Redevelopment Commission?   … registration begin at 11:30 am, the event officially starts at 12 noon on October 26, 2015?   …reservations for this event may be obtain by calling Mollie Drake Schreiber at 812-760-4233 or e-email her at mdarke07@yahoo.com. Deadline for registration is October 15, 2014.?  … the last five (5) events were sellouts.

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