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Evansville Redevelopment Commission
AGENDA – Revised
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 – 8:30 am
Civic Center Complex – Room 307

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes of December 4, 2012

3. Approval of Accounts Payable Vouchers

4. Jacobsville Redevelopment Area
Design Review – 101-107 W Franklin/Alva Electric/new storage building & parking area –
Recommended for approval by JACC
Resolution 12-ERC-44 – Authorizing Contract for Repairs at 118 Garfield St in the Jacobsville Redevelopment Area

5. Downtown Redevelopment Area
Resolution 12-ERC-45 – Awarding a Contract for New Accessible Entrance at the Old Post Office
Resolution 12-ERC-46 – Approval of 4th Addendum to Management Agreement With VenuWorks
Resolution 12-ERC-47 – Accepting a Proposal from RTM Consultants, Inc. for Variance Request at Ford Center

6. Other Business

7. Adjournment

* This preliminary Agenda is subject to change. The final Agenda will be posted at the entrance to the location of the meeting prior to the meeting.

Harvard Needs Remedial Energy Math

By ROBERT BRYCE

Investing in and using fossil fuels is so wrong it should be seen as the equivalent of support for apartheid. That is the message being promoted by 350.org, the organization headed by environmental activist Bill McKibben.

Over the past month or so, Mr. McKibben and a rotating cast of activists have held rallies in 21 U.S. cities encouraging students to campaign for ridding their university endowments of investments in coal, oil and natural gas. The effort is modeled on the 1980s effort to get universities to shed investments in companies that did business in apartheid-era South Africa. A few small schools, including Unity College in Maine and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, have responded to the pressure and agreed to rid their portfolios of fossil-fuel stocks.
One of the slogans used in 350.org’s divestment campaign is “Do the math.” OK. Let’s.

Set aside the financial arguments for—or against—investing in companies that produce hydrocarbons. Further, let’s not judge the claims made by Mr. McKibben and his allies that a concentration of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is “the safe limit for humanity.”

Let’s do the math by considering what will happen if we humans—in the words of the campaign—attempt to “go fossil free” and rely solely on “clean energy.” To make the computation simpler still, let’s ignore oil altogether, even though that energy source represents about 33% of all global energy use and is indispensable for transportation.

The absurdity of the calls for a “fossil free” future can be illustrated by looking exclusively at the explosive growth in the world’s demand for electricity, the commodity that separates rich countries from the poor ones. Since 1985, on a percentage basis, global electricity demand has grown by 121%, which is nearly three times the rate of growth in oil demand. Over the past two and half decades, electricity consumption has increased by an average of 450 terawatt-hours (a terawatt-hour is one trillion watt-hours) per year. That’s the equivalent of adding about one Brazil (which used 485 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2010) to the electricity sector every year. The International Energy Agency expects global electricity use to continue growing by about 450 terawatt-hours per year through 2035.

Here’s where the math becomes college-freshman obvious: In 2011, the world had 240,000 megawatts of wind-generation capacity. That fleet of turbines produced 437 terawatt-hours of electricity. Therefore, just keeping up with the growth in global electricity demand—while not displacing any of the existing need for coal, oil and natural gas—would require the countries of the world to install about as much wind-generation capacity as now exists, and they’d have to do so every year.

Put another way, just to keep pace with demand growth, the wind industry will need to cover a land area of some 48,000 square miles with wind turbines per year, an area about the size of North Carolina. Even if that much land were available, no humans would want to live on the land because of the irritating noise generated by those turbines.

There are welcome developments in solar energy: Production is growing rapidly and the price of solar cells is falling. Once again, though, simple math exposes the scale problem.
Recall that we need 450 terawatt-hours per year of electricity production to keep pace with incremental demand. Germany has more installed solar-energy capacity than any other country—about 25,000 megawatts. Last year, Germany produced 19 terawatt-hours of electricity from solar. Thus, just to keep pace with the growth in global electricity demand, the world would have to install about 23 times as much solar-energy capacity as now exists in Germany, and it would have to do so year after year.

And we haven’t even considered the incurable intermittency of solar and wind, a problem that requires backup capacity from fossil fuels or nuclear power.

Last month, the Harvard College Undergraduate Council held a referendum on fossil fuel divestment. (Harvard’s $31 billion endowment is the largest in the country.) With about half of the undergrads voting, 72% voted in favor of divesting. Those students were apparently persuaded by the slick slogans put out by 350.org, such as “We > fossil fuels.”

Harvard is among America’s most prestigious schools. But it is apparent that the students who voted in favor of the divestiture proposal—and presumably to rid the world of fossil fuels—did not do the math.

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THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING OF THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS COMMISSION WILL CONVENE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012 AT 8:00 A.M.

THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE REITZ HOME CARRIAGE HOUSE LOCATED AT 224 SE FIRST STREET IN EVANSVILLE, IN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND IS SCHEDULED FOR 8:00 A.M.

AGENDA
Vanderburgh County
Board of Commissioners
December 18, 2012
5:00 pm, Room 301

1. Call to Order
2. Attendance
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Action Items
• First Reading of CO.01-13-001: 2013 Commissioners Meeting Dates
• Resolution CO.R-12-12-015: ADA Requirements and ADA Transition Plan
• Receive Petition and First Reading of Vacation Ordinance CO.V-12-12-004: Vacation of Portion of Drainage Easement and Underground Public Utility Easement 8400 Churchill Court
• Final Reading and Public Hearing of Vacation Ordinance Co.V-12-12-003: Vacation of Easement at 7215 Hogue Road
• Burdette Park: YMCA Summer Camp Proposal
• Contracts, Agreements and Leases
i. Superior Court:
• Home Verification officer Agreement with Deputy Troy Hardin
• Home Verification officer Agreement with Deputy John Helfrich
• Home Verification officer Agreement with Deputy Dion Wingerter
ii. Juvenile Court: House Arrest Service Agreement with Hi-Tech
iii. Prosecutor: Adult Protective Services Grant Agreement
iv. Purdue Cooperative Service: Amendment No. 5 to Contractual Services Agreement with Purdue University
v. Emergency Management Agency: Emergency Management Sub-Grant Agreement EDS# C44P-3-163B
vi. Health Department: Indiana Medicaid Clinic Provider Enrollment and Profile Maintenance Packet
vii. Commissioners:
• AT & T Mobility Pricing Discount Expiration for Vanderburgh County Government
• Inter-local Agreement for the Reconstruction of the Burkhardt Road-Virginia Street Intersection
5. Department Head Reports
6. New Business
7. Old Business
8. Public Comment
9. Consent Items
• Approval of December 4, 2012 meeting minutes
• Employment Changes
• County Auditor:
i. Permission Letter for Auditor as Financial Officer to Certify Vanderburgh County with SBOA in the State Gateway System
ii. Surplus Request
• Commissioners: Request for approval to roll over department leave
• County Assessor: Centre fees waiver request for IAAC courses February 5-7, 2013, July 15-19, 2013 & October 28- November 1, 2013
• Evansville ARC October 2012 report of activities and meeting minutes
• Kraftwerks Old Courthouse Craft Show 2012 Financial Report
• Soil and Water Conservation District December 2012 Report
• County Clerk: November 2012 Monthly Report
• County Engineer:
i. Pay Request No. 165 for TIF Projects in the amount of $79,500.00
ii. Department Head Report
• Health Department: Request to surplus 1994 Chevy Pick-up Truck
10. Adjournment

Evansville, IN – December 14, 2012, Kem A. Duerson, age 34, will be sentenced by Judge Robert Pigman at 1:00 p.m. today after being found guilty on November 16 of Class A Felony Dealing in Cocaine or Narcotic Drug. Duerson faces 20-50 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections. In November, Duerson also plead guilty to being a Habitual Offender. Due to the Habitual Offender Enhancement, thirty years will be added to the sentence.

Henry Lee Newton, age 37, will be sentenced by Judge Kelly Fink at 2:00 p.m. today after being found guilty on November 15 of Burglary Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class A Felony, Robbery Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class B Felony and Theft – Class D Felony. Newton faces 20-50 years for the Class A Felony, 6-20 for the Class B Felony and 6 months – 3 years for the Class D Felony, all to be served in the Indiana Department of Corrections. After being convicted, Newton plead guilty to being a Habitual Offender. The enhancement will add 30 years to Newton’s sentence for the Class A Felony and 10-30 years to his sentence for the Class B Felony.

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Carly Settles, director of public relations 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.

Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, December 13, 2012.

Nick Colvert Theft – Class D Felony

Benjamin Crowe Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated –Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)

Jonathan Hamilton Possession of a Controlled Substance – Class D Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Christopher Mandich Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator – Class F Felony
Possession of Marijuana – Class A Misdemeanor
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Larry Stammer Operating a Motor Vehicle After Forfeiture of License for Life – Class C 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
Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days