Gary Gulledge, candidate for Vanderburgh County Coroner, would like to take this opportunity to remind the citizens of Vanderburgh County of the Lifesavers’ Walk scheduled for September 8 th, 2012.
This event is sponsored by Southwestern Indiana Suicide Prevention Coalition.
Registration for the Lifesavers’ Walk will be from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Evansville State Hospital grounds, with the 1 mile walk beginning at 9:15 a.m. Registration fee is $20.00.
The purpose of the Lifesavers’ Walk is to raise awareness of the problem of suicide.
All proceeds will be used to promote suicide awareness, education, and prevention activities in this area.
The Lifesavers’ Walk continues to be an important factor in the better understanding of how suicidal behavior can be prevented.
Come join me for the 1 mile walk to raise awareness for the problem of suicide. Walk in memory of a loved one lost to suicide or to support local suicide prevention projects.
United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett will hold a press conference TOMORROW (Thursday, September 6) at 10:30am CDT in the Evansville Mayor’s Office.
Hogsett will be announcing an award of nearly $400,000 that will assist Evansville-area efforts to combat domestic violence. Attending the press conference will be Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, representatives from local law enforcement, as well as social service organizations that will benefit from the grant money.
INDIANAPOLIS – State Rep. Gail Riecken (D-Evansville) announced today that she will conduct four town hall meetings on September 15 and 29 to give area residents a chance to discuss issues of concern and ask questions about state government.
The meetings will be:
SEPTEMBER 15
9 to 10:30 a.m.: Nativity Catholic Church, 3636 Pollack Avenue.
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1800 South Governor.
SEPTEMBER 29
10 to 11:30 a.m.: St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1900 N. Fulton Avenue.
Noon to 1:30 p.m.: Liberty Missionary Baptist Church, 701 Oak Street.
“These town halls are designed around the general themes of jobs, the Interstate 69 project, and the Ohio River, but they also give the people of this area the opportunity to make their feelings known about any subjects that concern them, and discuss problems that we can help address at the state level,†Riecken said.
“I always believe in giving local residents every chance to stay involved and play an active role in the decisions I make as their state representative,†she added. “I strongly encourage everyone interested in good government to stop by these town halls in the weeks ahead.â€
3. CONSENT AGENDA
a. Request Re: Permission to Seek Quotes for Installation of a Spray Park at Tepe Park. –
Boberg
b. Request Re: Permission to Seek Quotes to Replace a Sewer Pump at Kleymeyer Softball
Fields. – Boberg
c. Request Re: Approve and Execute Agreement with Maxitrol for Fire Panel Monitoring at
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden. – Morris*
*Recommendation from Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden Advisory Board.
4. OLD BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Open Bids for Stadium Demolition. – Johnson
b. Request Re: Review and Approve Change Order #1 for the Pigeon Creek Greenway Passage,
Phase 3C-4. – Boberg
5. NEW BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Approve Termination of Management Contract with SMG for the Victory and
Mesker Music Theatre. – Johnson
b. Request Re: Approve Professional Engineering Services with Americas Engineering for
ADA Improvements at Golfmoor and Lamasco Parks. – Boberg
c. Request Re: Review Partnership with Athletes Performance Institute of Indiana at Swonder
Fitness Center. – Nadeau
d. Request Re: Review and Approve Adult Hockey Fees for 2012/2013 Season. – Nadeau
e. Request Re: Approve Budget Transfers and CIP Reprioritizations. – Boberg
f. Request Re: Any Other Business the Board Wishes to Consider and Public Comments.
Joe Wallace, Coachella Valley iHub CViHub Clients to ‘Present’ at WBT 2012 Innovation Marketplace
Palm Springs, CA (September 5, 2012) – A national panel of seed investors, venture capitalists and corporate licensing executives selected three Coachella Valley Innovation Hub (CViHub) clients to be presenters for the WBT 2012 Innovation Marketplace in San Diego. Presenters for the nation’s showcase of the largest collection of vetted and mentored start-up companies and pure technologies hail from top universities, labs, research institutions, incubators and innovation centers.
About 100 start-ups are chosen from a broad international field to be a WBT Innovation Marketplace presenter at their annual conference on October 24 – 26 at the San Diego Convention Center. Judging criteria is rigorous, CViHub managing director Joe Wallace explained. Presenters have to demonstrate that their technology or product has strong potential for high-growth as a commercial enterprise or a solution to a market problem. “Having three clients deemed as market-ready innovators is a major step forward for them and for the Coachella Valley iHub,’’ Wallace said.
“We are extremely proud to see three Coachella Valley nurtured start-ups in the national spotlight,’’ said Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet. “We are equally proud of the progress the Coachella Valley Innovation Hub has made to mentor these promising candidates to market-ready status.’’
The three WBT 2012 presenters from the CViHub are:
• TransMedImage, a start-up business that intends to become the definitive medical image network for physicians, radiologists, hospitals, patients, insurance carriers, imaging companies and others. It plans to integrate proprietary technology, radiological services, electronic medical records and other services to store, retrieve and distribute information in a way that expedites and improves patient care across multiple platforms and locations.
• Indy Power Systems, developer of the Energy Router(tm), a patented hardware and software package that can optimize the flow of energy between different sources or loads, regardless of voltage. It is the only company blending energy into different types of storage devices, making it possible to use renewable energy like solar and wind at night or when the air is still. IPS has already delivered its first micro-grid management system. A battery cycler system will be installed in the fourth quarter, along with a second micro-grid system for Pratt Whitney Rocketdyme. IPS also signed a letter of intent with a manufacturer that is worth $5 million annually.
• EV Enterprises, developer of a prototype device the size of a key-fob that enables the presence of radiation to be detected. EVE’s product came about in response to a concern expressed by an organic food supplier who wanted to be able to offer their customers the security of knowing whether or not the food they were buying was radiation-free. The need for a practical, inexpensive and portable radiation detector came to the forefront in the aftermath of the Japanese Tsunami that caused radiation to leak from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor complex. Although it is hard to say what levels of contamination in our food and environment are ultimately dangerous enough to cause harm, the device provides shoppers with the ability to test for the presence of radiation as they go about their day-to-day activities.
“The fact that three start-up companies from the CViHub were chosen as presenters at the World’s Best Technology conference less than a year after that iHub was officially opened speaks volumes about the rapid positive impact that California’s Innovation Hubs can have when engaged local stakeholders take the bull by the horns and commit to the iHub conceptâ€, said Louis Stewart, Deputy Director of California Go-Biz (California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development).
“The benefit of presenting at an internationally recognized forum represents an opportunity of a lifetime for start-ups,’’ Wallace said. At the deal-focused event, the CViHub clients will give a 6-minute presentation to over 100 seasoned venture investors and Fortune 500 licensing scouts from a variety of industries. Since the first WBT Marketplace in 2002, more than $786 million worth of early and seed-stage funding and licensing has been awarded to the more than 680 presenters from the U.S. and 26 other countries.
“We are impressed by the caliber of our clients,’’ said Cathedral City Mayor Kathleen DeRosa. “They typify the mission of the CViHub and the goals of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership to diversify the economy through renewal energy initiatives.†“The Coachella Valley will be watching these companies, and all others nurtured by the Innovation Hub, as they continue to evolve and ultimately contribute to the vitality of our region,’’ Desert Hot Springs Mayor Yvonne Parks said.
The CViHub is a regional project funded by the cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Desert Hot Springs and is an integral part of the blueprint strategy of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP).
To learn more about the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership and the Coachella Valley Innovation Hub, visit www.cvep.com or call (760) 340-1575.
About CVEP: Coachella Valley Economic Partnership is an action-oriented, non-profit corporation dedicated to expanding and diversifying the economy of the Coachella Valley desert region while maintaining the quality of life for a resort environment. CVEP has been devoted to strategies to attract, expand and retain business and workforce development. Now, it has broadened its focus to plan and nurture new job clusters, such as: Healthcare and Life Science, Clean Technology/Energy, Supply Chain Management/Logistics and Creative Arts, Media & Design.
About the Coachella Valley Innovation Hub:
The CViHub housed in the Rabobank Regional Business Center, along with CVEP, offers services, programs and incentives to attract and cultivate new, clean technology business across multiple fields. Those fields include solar energy, wind power, green building techniques, water filtration and conservation technologies, biofuel and geothermal production and smart grid technology.
Today the Parks Board unanimously approved the termination of the contract with SMG to manage the Victory Theatre and the Mesker Amphitheatre. The termination will take effect on October 7th. No discussions were held regarding who will be managing these facilities or what the future holds for The Centre which houses the SMG offices and has been managed by SMG since it was opened. There was also no resolution announced with respect to any existing events already booked by SMG for the Victory or Mesker. SMG officials have already announced events at the Victory that are after the termination date.
Confidential sources have told the City County Observer that the Evansville Redevelopment Commission will decide what to do with the two facilities and any financial obligations that go with them. The Parks Board issued an agenda for today’s meeting yesterday that did not announce this action. A revised agenda went out at just after 7:30 this morning including the motion to terminate the SMG contract just over 4 hours before the vote was held.
“Republicans and Democrats spent last summer battling how best to save $2.1 trillion over the next decade. They are spending this summer battling how best to not save $2.1 trillion over the next decade. In the course of that year, the U.S. government’s fiscal gap — the true measure of the nation’s indebtedness — rose by $11 trillion.”
“The fiscal gap is the present value difference between projected future spending and revenue. It captures all government liabilities, whether they are official obligations to service Treasury bonds or unofficial commitments, such as paying for food stamps or buying drones. Some question whether “official†and “unofficial†spending commitments can be added together. But calling particular obligations “official†doesn’t make them economically more important. Indeed, the government would sooner renege on Chinese holding U.S. Treasuries than on Americans collecting Social Security, especially because the U.S. can print money and service its bonds with watered-down dollars.”
“The U.S. fiscal gap, calculated (by us) using the Congressional Budget Office’s realistic long-term budget forecast — the Alternative Fiscal Scenario — is now $222 trillion. Last year, it was $211 trillion. The $11 trillion difference — this year’s true federal deficit — is 10 times larger than the official deficit and roughly as large as the entire stock of official debt in public hands.”
“Governments, like households, can’t indefinitely spend beyond their means. They have to satisfy what economists call their “intertemporal budget constraint.†The fiscal gap simply measures the extent to which this constraint is violated and tells us what is needed to balance the government’s intertemporal budget.
The answer for the U.S. isn’t pretty. Closing the gap using taxes requires an immediate and permanent 64 percent increase in all federal taxes. Alternatively, the U.S. needs to cut, immediately and permanently, all federal purchases and transfer payments, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, by 40 percent. Or it can mix these terrible fiscal medicines with honey, namely radical fiscal reforms that make the economy much fairer and far stronger. What the government can’t do is pay its bills by spending more and taxing less. America’s children, whose futures are being rapidly destroyed, are smart enough to tell us this.”
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Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, September 04, 2012.
Christopher Anderson Strangulation – Class D Felony
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor
Jamie Herring Theft – Class D Felony
Angela Miller Possession with Intent to Deal Methamphetamine –Class A Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor
Maria Ramasway Domestic Battery – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)
Public Intoxication –Class B Misdemeanor
Ashley Tevault Theft – Class D Felony
Tamara Tevault Theft –Class D Felony
Criminal Trespass – Class A Misdemeanor
Derek Utzman Possession of a Controlled Substance – Class D Felony (Three Counts)
Unlawful Possession or Use of a Legend Drug –Class D Felony
For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Carly Settles at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at csettles@vanderburghgov.org.
Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
SENTENCE CHART
Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year
Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days
REGULAR MEETING
KEVIN WINTERNHEIMER CHAMBERS
ROOM 301, CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
12:00 NOON
REVISED AGENDA
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. MINUTES August 15, 2012
3. CONSENT AGENDA
a. Request Re: Permission to Seek Quotes for Installation of a Spray Park at Tepe Park. –
Boberg
b. Request Re: Permission to Seek Quotes to Replace a Sewer Pump at Kleymeyer Softball
Fields. – Boberg
c. Request Re: Approve and Execute Agreement with Maxitrol for Fire Panel Monitoring at
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden. – Morris*
*Recommendation from Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden Advisory Board.
4. OLD BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Open Bids for Stadium Demolition. – Johnson
b. Request Re: Review and Approve Change Order #1 for the Pigeon Creek Greenway Passage,
Phase 3C-4. – Boberg
5. NEW BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Approve Termination of Management Contract with SMG for the Victory and
Mesker Music Theatre. – Johnson
b. Request Re: Approve Professional Engineering Services with Americas Engineering for
ADA Improvements at Golfmoor and Lamasco Parks. – Boberg
c. Request Re: Review Partnership with Athletes Performance Institute of Indiana at Swonder
Fitness Center. – Nadeau
d. Request Re: Review and Approve Adult Hockey Fees for 2012/2013 Season. – Nadeau
e. Request Re: Approve Budget Transfers and CIP Reprioritizations. – Boberg
f. Request Re: Any Other Business the Board Wishes to Consider and Public Comments.
IS IT TRUE that there was a time and it was not very long ago that the City of Evansville was asserting that the Johnson Controls contract was legal and binding and that nothing could be done to change a word of it?…we assume that this assertion was made on the advice of City Attorney Ted Ziemer who was also the author of the Earthcare Energy loan package for $200,000 that the people of Evansville are still on the hook for?…that with the IURC stepping in and forbidding the City from going into debt to pay for the Johnson Controls deal that the negotiating away of lots of parts of that ironclad contract seems to finally be the rule of the day?…the WIFI part is now gone and that two of our Civic Center Moles are telling us that the residential water meters are being taken out as well?…it was a single cherry picked bad meter used as real data that contributed to the IURC decision to forbid the deal based on flimsy research when it comes to saving the City money?…this is what happens when things get jammed through at the last minute by a lame duck administration or jammed through by a new Mayor without so much as even discussing worst case scenarios?…we hope that whatever comes out of this is done right, vetted right, and really saves the people of Evansville money because the way things happen in these parts they are going to need it?
IS IT TRUE that yesterday afternoon gas prices around Evansville magically increased by over 20 cents per gallon?…that Evansville, Indiana is the 17th most expensive reported gas on gasbuddy.com outside the State of California that has a 25 cent per gallon charge for pollution control additives?…that means that 150 places across this great nation are selling gasoline at a better price than it is being sold in Evansville?…we will reiterate our statement from the other day that with the gouging at the pump, Vectren’s near national high electric rates, and the coming $100+ per month water and sewer bills that Evansville will be a contender for the distinction of the highest price place in the country to live based on the number of hours of work required to purchase the basic services of life?
IS IT TRUE that the County Commissioners unanimously voted to cut the budget of the Human Rights Commission by 20%?…it is about time that the Commissioners actually followed through on a budget cut that they had ruffled their feathers about instead of folding their cards and giving in as they have on several other issues?…that if the public statement by Commissioner Joe Kiefer regarding the arrogance of the Executive Director toward the Commissioners is true they should have cut every dime of Vanderburgh County taxpayer money out of that budget?
IS IT TRUE the former North High School is now the home of the “Academy for Innovative Studies†as it has been christened by the EVSC?…that there are reportedly about 200 students in the old NHS that routinely handled over 1,500 students before the name was changed to an “Academyâ€?…that some students that behave in such a disruptive manner that they are expelled from the general population of students have always been sent to a different school but the name of that school has not been any stream of words with the term “Academy†in it?…an “Academy†has always been associated with excellence in learning and as a place where the best students are grouped together as a reward and to be able to work on a higher level?…that one can call REFORM SCHOOL and “Academy†if one wishes to corrupt the very invention of the word but it is still REFORM SCHOOL?…between this instance of calling a warthog a prize heifer and the other instances of trying to name away failing schools that has been rubber stamped by the Vanderburgh County School Board, we think it is time to expel the entire school board and elect 7 completely new people as the stewards of our public education system have become delusional?…that we now have a building for 1,500 that is occupied by a group of only 200 that will make the remaining 80%+ of the old NHS undesirable for other potential tenants or buyers?
IS IT TRUE the City County Observer would like to defend the Democrat Convention Party with regard to the omission of the word God from its official plank?…that the United States Constitution does not mention the name of God at all?…there is a veiled reference to a creator in the preamble?…that the monarchies of Europe of course all did mention God as the source of the dominion of kings over lesser men like serfs and the nobles?…based on this the Founding Fathers of the United States intentionally gave the authority from which power is granted as the people as opposed to God?…it was not until July 30, 1956 that Congress actually adopted the familiar term “In God We Trust†for our paper currency?…that prior to that date “In God We Trust†was on some coins at the discretion of the national mint but that only started officially after the Civil War?…that for those of you who are all about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution the Democrats got this one right?
INDIANAPOLIS – State Rep. Gail Riecken (D-Evansville) announced today that she will conduct four town hall meetings on September 15 and 29 to give area residents a chance to discuss issues of concern and ask questions about state government.
