IS IT TRUE October 19, 2012
IS IT TRUE a well known investor and realtor has privately estimated the value of the Robert’s Stadium property at around 3.5 million dollars?…this realtor said commercially at the low end the land would be worth around $200,000.00 per acre and around $300,000,00 per acre for retail use?…another point on Robert’s is that the sale generated around $184,000.00 to the city after costs but banks typically figure that assets when sold at auction are only 10% of their actual value so the actual replacement value of the items sold would be around 3 million dollars?…that squares pretty well as it was reported that the fairly new $6 Million scoreboard only sold for $6,000?…this investor/realtor said that the auction dramatically devalued the building as it would cost several million dollars to fix and replace what had been sold at the auction?… the asphalt is a valuable and even though Rudolph has provided a quote to remove it for free that is not a deal as it has more value than just the removal fee?…Rudolph will in all likelihood remove it and sell it back to the City of Evansville next year at a premium cost when they repave the streets?…there is a lot of oil in that soil from the asphalt which will entail environmental costs?…it will cost another 500,000.00 or more for soil replacement?…that one does not have to mow asphalt and if you were buying a property to put a business or a retirement center on it would make more sense and cost less to cut out the areas to build and use the existing parking to possibly save millions on repaving?…the intentional destruction of Roberts Stadium by the last two City of Evansville administrations has set the bar pretty high for a colossal combination of malfeasance and in-your-face aggression with the people’s money?
IS IT TRUE that the race for Vanderburgh County Treasurer is heating up at a time and in some ways that we at the CCO hopes do not degrade down the slippery slope of character assassination?…that we and many other fellow citizens have known Susan Kirk and Rick Davis for many years and hold both in high esteem as people and consider them to be competent and professional in their duties?…the taxpayer dollars will be in safe, honest, and cognizant hands no matter which of these fine people is elected?…that we encourage both of the candidates and their supporters to refrain from any personal attacks on anyone, to allow the candidates to make their best positive assertions, and to let the people decide with their votes which one of these good citizens they prefer to serve as County Treasurer?
IS IT TRUE we are pleased to report that the daily reports of the Evansville Police Department continue to stay under 10 pages after rising to over 15 pages during the 2010 – 2011 time period?…this drop in size started in late summer and has continued?…this is giving us hope that perhaps the crime rate that had been rising in Evansville for several years against the national trends is coming back to earth?…it must be acknowledged that a binge of murders earlier in the year is likely to skew the statistics for murder up in 2012 but are crossing our fingers that the new trend of less crime is real and sustainable?…we wish to congratulate the EPD for taking a confessed 20 year serial sexual battery perpetrator off of our streets?…George Schmadel is reported to have told EPD officers that over the past 20 years he has committed sexual battery over 130 times in Garvin Park, Sunset Park, and Wesselman Park?…if finding needles, condoms, and drug paraphernalia was not sufficient to shake the Evansville Parks Department out of the coma of non-performance it has exhibited for many years MAYBE 130 COUNTS OF SEXUAL BATTERY WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION?…the solution for such utter neglect and failure in our parks is not to build more parks?…even Forrest Gump could figure this out?