IS IT TRUE the City Controller stated he “requested the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility prepay the 2015 PILOT in December 2014 which the Utility Board and management approved”?  …the City Controller made this statement in an e-mail he recently sent to John Friend and others that we posted in todays CCO Feature article section?  …last night City Councilman John Friend sent us many months of official minutes of the Evansville Water and Sewer meetings?  …our staff have read over these minutes like a fine tooth comb and could find no reference of any official approval by the Water and Sewer Board and Management giving a $2.5 million dollar prepayment from the PILOT fund to the City in December 2014?

IS IT TRUE City Controller Lloyd didn’t explain in his e-mail to Mr. Friend and others why the City needed a $2.5 million prepaid advancement from the 2015 PILOT fund?  …could it be that Mr. Friend was correct in saying that the City General Fund was broke and needed this advancement?  …we urge Controller Lloyd to back up his claim concerning the $2.5  advancement to the city from the PILOT fund by sending the CCO official copies of the minutes of the Water and Sewer Department stating such?

IS IT TRUE our Parks Department is funded as a separate taxing entity? …that part of our property tax bill shows the Parks Department as “Special Taxing District”? …elected officials can’t cut the Parks Department budget?  …the City of Evansville help with the additional funding of the Parks Department budget by taking money from the General Fund?  …there’s a really simple solution for increasing the funding for our parks and that is raise the “Special Tax District”?  …if the individuals running for City Council believe we should improve the city parks they should announce that they want increase the rates in the “Special Taxing District”‘ to properly fund our parks?

IS IT TRUE we hear that Earthcare, LLC may had filed bankruptcy in recent months?  …if this rumor is correct it looks like the tax payers of Evansville may have just got fleeced out of an $200,000  unsecured no interest development loan granted to them by the Winnnecke administration?

IS IT TRUE we just heard that an out of town business just purchased a downtown establishment with their own funds?  …we were just informed that officials from DMD  convinced the new owners of this downtown establishment to accept a $150,000 low interest loan to do some renovations? …that government shouldn’t do for business that they can and should do for themselves?

IS IT TRUE we hope that Mayoral candidate Gail Riecken will make the loans and direct grants giving practices of the DMD a major campaign issue?  …we have been told  that the DMD loan and grant program have become a major “pork barrel and political patronage”  vote getter for the Mayor? …we know once all the information concerning DMD grants and loan activities are made public the business community and taxpayers will be up in arms?

IS IT TRUE people are saying that Missy Mosby and Jonathon Weaver have cause a major split in the Democratic party?  …other people are saying the only thing they did to the Democratic party was abandon it for the Republican party?

IS IT TRUE we read that Police Chief Billy Bolin Public Relations guy Sgt Jason Cullun has created a “Police Gallery” for people being arrested for drunken driving?  …we look forward to Sgt. Cullum providing information On the  “Police Galley” to the CCO so we can post the information on our site? …we are very appreciative that both the EPD and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff Office sends us daily arrests reports and police calls?

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