IS IT TRUE that both the immediate and long term actions with respect to Roberts Stadium are sitting in limbo for the most part because no real consensus was agreed to by the people of Evansville?… in spite of Mayor Weinzapfel’s Dave Rector led assault on Roberts followed by Mayor Winnecke’s window dressing committee formed to make it look as though a rational collaborative process was being followed that the proponents of both sides are still at each other’s throats?…the Evansville City Council has effectively made the state of limbo permanent by choosing not to appropriate any money to do the demolition by a 6 – 3 vote?…this is just the vote to take Roberts down and has nothing at all to do with what to do with the site after the stadium is turned into a pile of rubble that will resemble Mayor Weinzapfel’s Rock Pile that lingered downtown for longer than it should have?…this latest about face would not be happening if a rational plan with funding had been adopted before the assault on the stadium began?

IS IT TRUE we are hearing that many of the fixtures in the stadium like toilets, lights, and windows were sold at the auction and that the removal process did not take care in their removal?…that we furthermore are hearing from Mole #28 and others that Councilwoman Missy Mosby has now decided that rapid demolition is the right thing to do?…that it seems as though old Rector must have given Ms. Mosby a guided tour of the wreckage and shown her the catastrophic damages in order to secure her vote to set money aside to pay Wreck It Ralph to raze Roberts Stadium to the ground?…all of the things that supposedly convinced Ms. Mosby to join Team Wreck It Ralph are things that would have been done to refurbish Roberts anyway?…the Wrecking crew led by Dave Rector on behalf of two mayors finally seems to have done enough destruction to eliminate selling Roberts to some private investor in turn key condition from consideration?…the best course of action is still to hold one more auction and sell Roberts Stadium as is to the highest bidder?…the second best course of action is to proceed with the demolition and then auction the site to the highest bidder?…that Councilwomen Mosby and Robinson were spot on in their analysis of whether Mayor Winnecke should be going forward with a dog and skateboard park at a price tag of nearly $10 Million when all is said and done?…their analysis was “we are all parked out and don’t maintain what we have?”…these are two smart women when it comes to spending money we don’t have on something we don’t have the resources to take care of?

IS IT TRUE that the Common Council of the City of Evansville will be meeting tonight at 5:30 on the 3rd floor of the Civic Center to discuss the 2013 Budget?…it will be interesting to see if the reset button has really been hit yet with respect to reconciliation of the account of the City of Evansville?…the City Council may have gotten tricked into passing a 2012 budget by the Weinzapfel Administration but that has left much egg on their faces and they should not pass another budget until reconciliation is complete and the MIPS software is confirmed to be working as Big Dan from Umbaugh said it was last week?…that in addition to the MIPS failures and the cost of taxpayer dollars associated with said failures, the City Council would be wise to quiz the Utility Department that proceeded against the advice of engineering, and implemented the “Canopy” software which was supposed monitor the sewage overflows into the Ohio River and Pigeon Creek?…there are approximately 21-22 entry points on both of these tributaries?…unfortunately only about 5 of those points functioned under the software?… the Utility has abandoned the software for cell phone technology which appears to be operational but once again wasted taxpayer money on a boondoggle that changed nothing for the better?…we wonder if “Canopy” was dumbed down like the MIPS was to appease some people that seem to like the dark ages?…maybe the Water and Sewer Utility of the City of Evansville should revert to smoke signals to communicate and cave paintings to add?

IS IT TRUE there should be some investigation regarding the work that Steve Titzer’s firm Harding Shymanski did for the Water and Sewer Utility trying to fix the MIPS software package before anyone found out the books could not be reconciled?…that Mr. Titzer was a signer on the Johnson Controls contract shoved through in the last hour by the Weinzapfel Administration?…he signed as an appointed member of the board?…that such arrangements where board members firms do compensated work for the entities that they serve on the board of are frowned upon in most local government entities?…the true status between the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility and Mr. Titzer should be investigated for approval by the Winnecke Administration?…the reason is that this certainly has the appearance of conflict of interest and the people of Evansville should be given the courtesy of assuring them it is not by the Office of the Mayor that appoints board members to the Water and Sewer Utility?

IS IT TRUE that another one formidable and relevant Evansville company is sliding down the slope toward having no local presence at all?…that Vantiv has announced another round of layoffs that will be accompanied by the closing of their local office in favor of having its last 26 employees work from their respective homes?…that working from home is an operational strategy of a startup company that is saving cash for growth and not a long time established business with 26 employees?…that whatever camaraderie and culture that existed at Vantiv’s Evansville office will soon be gone?…that the remaining 26 warriors are most likely already looking for jobs?…this business just four or five years ago was occupying a significant portion of a riverfront high rise and was known as CSC?…CSC brought educated people in from all over the country who bought fine homes and had disposable income?…then Fifth Third bought them out and the first round of changes came?…then came another buy out and a name change?…that it will be true to form if in two years Vantiv takes the Whirlpool route and vanishes from the Evansville business community forever?…we are not surprised that there were no elected officials or surrogates lining up to cut ribbons in front of the 26 homes that these last loyal employees will now be working from?…that bad economic news must be kryptonite to a politician because they run from it like a rabbit running from a rattlesnake?

IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer is encouraged to see that the daily Evansville Police Reports that we post have been consistently under 10 pages recently?…that in 2011 the daily reports were exceeding 15 pages on a regular basis?…we hope that this is a lasting phenomena and that the people of Evansville and the good work of the EPD have combined to reduce the crime rate?

IS IT TRUE that on the heels of the exposure that the City of Evansville’s Controller’s Office during the Weinzapfel Administration botched up an integration of a new software package to the point that the books were not balanced for at least 21 months some good Civic Center Moles tell us that there is another software integration fiasco in the pipeline?…the discovery process is near completion and our readers can expect another exposure of bumbling and idiocy that resulted in the waste of taxpayer dollars in the very near future?

IS IT TRUE that a couple of strange revelations have come from the Obama debate preparation team since the shellacking the President took from Mitt Romney in the first of the debates?…that one is that President Obama blew off his last day of practice in favor of a trip to Hoover Dam that he had never seen?…the other strange bit of information is that the President came off of the debate stage thinking he had won the debate and had shown that feisty rascal Romney a thing or two?…that being the stated case which is hard to believe really exhibits extreme arrogance or disconnection with reality?…these two things are so off the wall that it would be easy to believe they are lies made up to set the stage for the second debate that is coming up on Tuesday?

IS IT TRUE as debating goes there is a fine line between being assertive and being abusive?…Mitt Romney stayed just to the assertive side of that line while Vice President Joe Biden crossed over the line and stayed there?