Home Blog Page 6898

Indiana Civil Liberties Union Executive Director to Speak at UE

0

Jane Henegar, executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, will speak on campus next week in a presentation sponsored by the University of Evansville’s Department of Philosophy and Religion.

Henegar will discuss the mission of the American Civil Liberties Union at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 30 in Eykamp Hall, Rooms 254-255 in the Ridgway University Center. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Prior to being named executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Henegar taught political science at Butler University and led the Indiana Bar Foundation’s Project Citizen to teach civics to K-12 students in Indiana. She served as interim director of the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention following her service as Indianapolis deputy mayor from 2000-2006.

Henegar has held various positions in government, including state director in the office of former Senator Evan Bayh, deputy commissioner and general counsel in the Indiana Department of Administration, executive posts at the Family and Social Services Administration, and judicial law clerk for the Honorable Thomas Reavley, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, she is a 1984 graduate of Bryn Mawr College and earned her law degree in 1988 from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Source: Evansville.edu

The Misplaced $1.6 Million Dollars: An email from Councilman John Friend to the City Council

19

Councilman John Friend

This is posted without edit, opinion or bias:

Dear Colleagues…

Attached is an email that I sent to Steve Schaefer concerning mis-directed Ford Center payments applied to the North H.S. project instead of the Arena totaling $1,645,000. The funds have been credited back to our accounts this month. As you all are aware, I have been requesting an audit on the Arena Project since May of this year. The administration, per my request, asked the SBOA to schedule the audit, but, nothing, at this time, has been scheduled by the SBOA. As it seems, payments were paid out of are trust fund to the benefit of EVSC. Oddly, this happened in September of 2011 totaling approx $1,434,000 and, again, in April of 2012, totaling $207,000. We, as the council for Evansville, should be strongly encouraging an audit. What other transactions have gone unnoticed And, why wouldn’t the EVSC contact the Bank indicating the error, twice, may I add? According to the bank officials, they indicated that this was simply an error, and was recently corrected, discovered by the bank, not by the City nor the EVSC.

As such, my dear colleagues, I, personally have had enough of the lack of reconciliation and weak internal controls, and, this is WHY I have strongly urged us to engage our own oversight representative. Please see the attached disbursement journals and pay attention to the term “North Campus” which should have been a “red light” for the City to react. I have requested from the Bank to provide emails to establish the timeline and individuals involved in these transactions.

Please let me know if you have any questions….John

Arena_Disbursements

CVB BOARD MEETING

1

THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING OF THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS COMMISSION WILL CONVENE ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 8:00 A.M.

THE MEETING WILL BE HELD IN MAPLE ROOM B AT THE AZTAR EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE CENTER LOCATED AT 421 NW RIVERSIDE DRIVE IN EVANSVILLE, IN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND IS SCHEDULED FOR 8:00 A.M.

EVSC Enrollment Figures Released

0

Enrollment in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation for the 2012-13 school year stands at a total of 22,986 students as of the official count day for the State of Indiana. This number includes students being served in EVSC schools, and in programs such as the EVSC’s Early Childhood Program, EVSC Virtual Academy, students attending the Southern Indiana Career &Tech Center from other counties and parochial schools, and those served at outside agencies such as Youth Day Treatment, Youth Care Center, Evansville Psychiatric Children’s Center, and Youth Day Treatment.
Increases in enrollment were again seen in the K-8 model with an increase in 129 students; as well as in second grade enrollment (+67); third grade (+67); sixth grade (+44); seventh grade (+4); and eleventh grade (+144). PreK numbers remain steady with 249 students enrolled as of count day.
The Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center has a total of 731 students – 440 from the EVSC and 291 from parochial schools in Vanderburgh County and the four out of county school districts the Center serves (Warrick, Posey, Gibson, and the southern half of Spencer counties).
EVSC School or Program Pupils Served
High Schools
New Tech Institute 205
Bosse High School 762
Central High School 1238
Harrison High School 1157
North High School 1550
Reitz High School 1355
Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center (out of county and parochial students only; EVSC students already included in home school count) 291 Non-EVSC students
440 total students enrolled
K-8
Cedar Hall Community School 619
Glenwood Leadership Academy 471
Lincoln School 378
Lodge Community School 498
Middle Schools
Helfrich Park STEM Academy 586
North Junior High School (grades 7 and 8) 802
Perry Heights Middle School 434
Plaza Park International Prep Academy 693
McGary Middle School 308
Thompkins 724
Washington 383
Elementary Schools
Caze 511
Cynthia Heights 520
Daniel Wertz 319
Delaware 457
Dexter 413
Evans 512
Fairlawn 452
Harper 465
Hebron 882
Highland 946
Oak Hill 778
Scott 768
Stockwell 584
Stringtown 520
Tekoppel 515
Vogel 651
West Terrace 649
Other
Academy for Innovative Studies (middle and high school students) 401
Evansville Psychiatric Children’s Center 16
Youth Day Treatment 11
EVSC Virtual Academy (total enrolled not served in EVSC high schools already) 22
86 total students enrolled
Youth Care Center 6
Total Students Served by the EVSC 22,986

EVSC’s innovative programs and other special offerings also are showing increases, as programs grow to serve more grade levels and students choose areas of study that interest them and their future goals.
Randall Shepard Academy for Law and Social Justice (open to juniors and seniors) 61
Medical Professions Academy (open to all grades – now in its second year, so only grades 9 and 10 represented) 92

Early College High School (open to all grades – now in its third year, so only grades 9-11 are
represented 105
Center for Family and Community Outreach (open to seniors only) 64
International Baccalaureate 82
JROTC 125

Enrollment numbers submitted to the state for school funding purposes for the EVSC show a total of 21,510.96 students – as there is no funding for pre-kindergarten students; partial funding for career & tech students from outside the EVSC; and funding for kindergarten students is calculated with each child counting as half.

Political Endorsement for Senator from Indiana: Joe Donnelly

61


The City County Observer endorsed Evansville’s Richard Mourdock over Senator Dick Lugar in the Republican primary. The words of candidate Mourdock of the last two days have convinced us that our endorsement while made with the available information at the time was not the right thing to do.

The CCO regrets its endorsement of Richard Mourdock in the primary and hereby endorses Mr. Mourdock’s opponent Joe Donnelly for the United States Senate seat from Indiana. It has become apparent that the beliefs expressed by Mr. Mourdock with respect to women’s rights and the crime of rape are not consistent with the City County Observer’s goals of seeing good public policy implemented locally and nationally.

IS IT TRUE October 25, 2012

12

The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE October 25, 2012

IS IT TRUE the referendum for combining the governments of the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County into a single entity are beginning to heat up?…a TV commercial that was aired by CORE the group opposing consolidation drew some pretty tough words from Laurel Meny who is the communications guru for YES?…one of the claims that has Meny upset is a claim that the plan of reorganization will “increase the number of appointed bureaucrats?”…Laurel does not mince words in her response to this claim as she calls it a blatant lie?…Meny stated regarding appointed bureaucrats that “The number of appointed officials following reorganization will not increase at all. Although some titles will change, such as changing the title of “Director of Communications” to “Public Information Officer,” the plan creates no new appointed positions. The number of appointees will remain the same”?…Meny was also critical of a claim that the reorganization plan will raise taxes?… Meny’s response to this claim was “The plan itself will not raise taxes at all. It actually will cut costs and make it easier to reduce taxes,?”

IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer invites letters to the editor on the subject of consolidation and encourage our readers to ferret out the facts as they are available in the consolidation plan?…the CORE group would catch less definitive grief from the YES group if they would use words like “may”, “could”, and “have been proven to in other locations” as opposed to stating things that elicit responses like “blatant lie”…we also welcome anyone from the CORE group who wishes to send us an article with direct quotes from the consolidation plan to back up the claims that the plan itself proposes tax increases or the numbers of political appointees now vs. later?…we support informed thought and encourage our readers and both campaigns to be accurate for the next 12 days?…one thing is for sure and that is some people will likely be better off with a YES vote and others with a NO vote while the benefits of the future are unknown in both cases?…it is difficult to project the future from a plan that for the most part dodged the responsibility of killing the sacred cows that keep per capita government spending in Evansville higher than peer cities?…if consolidation fails it will be traced straight back to a plan that showed no stomach for actually making the kinds of changes that really are possible?

IS IT TRUE that two checks totaling $1.64 Million were written in September of 2011 by the City of Evansville to cover construction costs incurred by the EVSC on the new North High School?…these checks were written on the Ford Center construction account and authorized by a blanket accounts payable voucher approval of the Evansville Redevelopment Commission?…this “honest mistake” as many in the chain of command are now calling it was just discovered and the $1.64 Million will soon be back in the hands of the City of Evansville as it should be?…this naturally happened during the last days of the Weinzapfel Administration at a time when the accounts of the City were not being reconciled monthly?…this is just the sort of thing that makes monthly reconciliation necessary and part of the laws of the State of Indiana?…that unfortunately it is not even surprising that the City of Evansville could misplace $1.64 Million and not even have the ability to know it?…we will also not be surprised if this is not the only such occurrence?…this is why AUDITS FOR PROJECTS LIKE THE FORD CENTER AND NHS need to be continuously updated?…it is just another day in Evansville when thing like this are discovered?…that City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr. has told the CCO that this is a BANK ERROR?

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

0

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

This feature is sponsored by Chris Walsh For Vanderburgh County Clerk. Chris Walsh is a veteran county administrator that strongly supports our local law enforcement professionals . Chris Walsh is a candidate that possess a non-partisan attitude with a consumer friendly demeanor. Chris also stands against unification of city and county governments.
This ad paid for by the committiee to elect Walsh Clerk.

Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, October 23, 2012.

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

Bruce Bauer Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator – Class D Felony

Michael Beach Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Angela Beard Theft – Class D Felony
Criminal Trespass – Class A Misdemeanor

Jacob Boarman Residential Entry – Class D Felony
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor

Bobbie Cunningham Escape – Class C Felony
Battery – Class A Misdemeanor
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class A Misdemeanor
Criminal Recklessness – Class B Misdemeanor

Christopher Debose Receiving Stolen Property – Class D Felony

Sylvester Johnson Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon – Class C Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class D Felony
Theft – Class D Felony
Failure to Stop After Accident Resulting in Damage to an Unattended Vehicle –
Class B Misdemeanor
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)

Christopher Monks Possession of Chemical Reagents or Precursors with Intent to Manufacture a
Controlled Substance – Class D Felony

Timothy Pease Operating a Motor Vehicle After Forfeiture of License for Life – Class C Felony

Jason Opperman Possession of a Controlled Substance – Class D Felony
(Habitual Substance Offender)

Syrina Rankin Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator – Class D Felony

Marcus Sherman Resisting Law Enforcement – Class D Felony
Possession of Cocaine – Class D Felony
Possession of a Controlled Substance – Class D Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class A Misdemeanor

Mallorie Siemers Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated –Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)
Possession of Marijuana – Class A Misdemeanor

Charles Tate Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony
Possession of Methamphetamine – Class D Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Russel Taylor Theft – Class D Felony

Janet Wenk Forgery –Class C Felony
Theft – Class D Felony
Fraud – Class D Felony
Obstruction of Justice – Class D Felony

Ashley Weyer Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony

Bradley Wheeler Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Jeremy Wood Intimidation – Class D Felony
Battery – Class A Misdemeanor
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)

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

Award winning novelist will give free reading November 1 at USI

0

The fall 2012 RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series will continue with a reading by Mako Yoshikawa at 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 1 in the second floor reading room of USI’s David L. Rice Library.

Yoshikawa is the author of One Hundred and One Ways, which was a national bestseller in the United States, and Once Removed. She is the winner of Southern Indiana Review’s 2012 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Nonfiction Award and has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony.

Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Yoshikawa holds a master’s degree in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a doctorate degree in literature from the University of Michigan. She currently lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area where she is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.

The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Publications by Yoshikawa are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Presented by USI’s College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers Union.

Source: USI.edu

VHS Pet of the Week: “McGee”

0

This is McGee. He is a 5 month old male kitten. He is black and white with short hair. His adoption fee would be $50 which includes his neuter, nationally registered microchip, age appropriate vaccines and a bag of food.

Citizens for Unification Report of Receipts and Expenditures

5

Click Here to view the PDF Document

1...6,8976,8986,899...7,285Page 6,898 of 7,285