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EDITORIAL: PRIVATE SECTOR IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE BUT PUBLIC SECTOR ISN’T
Over the last several years we have been watching with interest how many bad business decisions are made by local governmental enities with out any recourse from the private sector.
The lack of proper planning or follow through in the building of the Multi- Million Dollar Deaconess Sports Park is almost laughable.  First off, CVB spokes person announces the Sports Park has hired a new person to manage the overall operations and including the planning and scheduling all events associated with this multi million dollar Sports facility.  Thereafter CVB Executive Director Bob Warren announces that the newly appointed Sports Park manager has decided to to head South.  Warren  announces a new Sports Park manager has been appointed. Bob Warren then announces that the baseline measurements are off and shall cause a problem with scheduling teams  that have older players..  He announces that the costs are to prohibited to correct the base line problems. The “Grand Daddy”  of all mistakes is when CVB Bob Warren announces the scoreboards at the new sports park didn’t have any “Balls and Strikes” displayed on them.  All we can say about this is “WOW”.   Bottom line, If CVB Executive Director Bob Warren worked for the private sector and made these business mistakes he would had been fired!
Next we have the self proclaimed land and building acquisition expert DMD Director Kelley Coures running all over town buying up property like there is no tomorrow.  Recently Mr. Coures land and building acquisitions ventures took him to the blighted North Main street area of Evansville.  Mr. Coures looked into his crystal ball and decided to use our hard earned tax dollars to pay $535,000 to purchase the vacant and dilapidated CVS building located on North Main and Columbia street.  Today the only activity on the future use for this building is displaying a “FOR LEASE” sign on the front door.  However, we hear we might have great news for CVS building.  Coures now feels we can raze the building to provide parking to help with the over flow parking issues with Bosse Field.  Let’s see, he now wants to use land for over flow parking for a  park and baseball facility located about 9 or 10 blocks away.  We wonder if Mr. Coures realizes who in the world would want to walk 9 or 10 blocks with his family to a sporting event in a crime “riddened seedy part of town”?  We don’t even have to go into the merits of Coures decision to purchase the vacant Integrity Bank building on North main because its much of the same “Pie in the Sky” public sector economics.  Bottom line, If DMD Director Kelley Coures made these kind of bad business decisions in the private sector he would had been fired!
FOOTNOTE: Â STAY TONED BECAUSE NEXT EDITORIAL WILL BE ABOUT THE “SWITH AND BAIT” DOWNTOWN “MOTEL 6” LOOKING CONVENTION HOTEL.
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St. Mary’s Health Receives American College of Cardiology Award for Cardiac Care
NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum award recognizes high standards
(Evansville, IN) St. Mary’s Health has received the ACTION Registry– Get with the Guidelines Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2015. This achievement was awarded by The American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. St. Mary’s Health, part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system is one of only 319 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes St. Mary’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that St. Mary’s has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award, St. Mary’s consistently followed the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry–GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.
“This award is a proud achievement for St. Mary’s. It reflects the hard work and dedication of the staff who care for some of our most seriously ill patients and their families,†said Jan Ernest, St. Mary’s Vice president of Cardiovascular and System Support Services. “The implementation of these guidelines requires successful coordination of the cardiovascular team and emergency personnel and is a critical step in saving the lives and improving outcomes of heart attack patients.â€
ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. ACTION Registry-GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.
Reversal: Court wrongly required $1.1M bond in estate spat
Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com
A trial court wrongly ordered an heir to an estate to post a bond of more than $1.1 million for a claim he submitted as he sought to block the sale of the family farm.
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the bond order and remanded with instructions to order Charles R. Ferguson to post a bond of $60,000 – administrative costs to date – to stay the sale of the farm and for further proceedings.
Ferguson is one of two heirs to the estate of Lera V. Ferguson, who died intestate. His sister, Nancy Mosson, is the other heir and the estate’s personal representative. She disallowed Ferguson’s claim of more than $1 million for services he says he provided over Lera Ferguson’s lifetime, according to the record.
Charles Ferguson objected to the sale of the family farm, and Howard Circuit Court Special Judge David Grund ordered Ferguson post a bond of $1,133,833.71, which represented the amount of his claim plus some administrative costs, within 30 days to stay the sale of the farm.
Judge Cale Bradford wrote for the panel that Ferguson had a right to seek this interlocutory appeal under Appellate Rule 14(A), because the order required a payment of money.
“It strikes us as somewhat unjust that Charles should, in effect, be forced to post a bond to protect himself if he, understandably, does not wish to,†Bradford wrote. “… Ordering Charles to post a bond to cover his own claim does not protect him; if anything, it harms him by denying him the use of his money. We do not believe that this is what the General Assembly had in mind when drafting Indiana Code section 29-1-15-4. We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in setting Charles’s bond.â€
IS IT TRUE JULY 21, 2015
IS IT TRUE on June 28, 2015 a man alledges he was battered by a civilian riding along with a police officer on his beat that evening? Â ..EPD spokesperson Jason Cullum declined to identify the young man riding with the police officer during the alleged cell phone incident? Â … in the spirit of cooperation the City County Observer respectfully suggests that the Evansville Courier and Press investigative reporters should ask around and see if this young was the son of an EPD police officer? Â …we can’t wait for the Evansville Courier and Press to gives us a similar tip one day?
IS IT TRUEÂ today we were sent an e-mail pertaining to costs to get the infrastructure to ready for both the Hotel and IU Medical School? Â Â …this e-mail has information about the cost of the Chestnut Street sewer relocation project”?
IS IT TRUE the Evansville Water and Sewer  board approved the award of the Chestnut Street sewer relocation to Blankenberger Brothers, Inc during a Utility board meeting on June 30th? …the project bid from Blankenberger Brothers was a whooping $7,156,833?
IS IT TRUE “Mike Labitzke told Alan Mounts that the relocation of Chestnut Water and Sewer lines will give the City the opportunity to consolidate 2 CSO underground storage facilities into one underground CSO storage facility which includes the proposed IOCP Projects?  … In addition, the project includes “green infrastructure†to keep storm water from the street and sidewalks out of the Combined Sewer System.?  …Alan Mounts claims the timing of the relocation project was to meet the needs of the Convention Hotel and IU Medical School projects?
IS IT TRUE Alan Mounts haven’t seen a timeline for the project,  but he feels the project should start later this summer and will most likely continue into early 2016 depending on weather conditions?  …it looks like the hidden costs for the Hotel just keep adding up?
IS IT TRUE that we need to give accolades to Finance Chairman John Friend , CPA  and former City Councilman’s Curt John’s for their leadership in helping to  bring the Ford Center within projected  construction budget?  …we were told that the Ford Center came within .6%  to .8% of the construction budget as set by the City Council?
IS IT TRUE that Mayor Winnecke should have consulted with the Council leadership because it looks like they obtained the skills on how to bring a major public works project in on budget and projected time table?