IS IT TRUE that the appointments keep rolling out of the Transition Team and that two more blue chippers are being announced today?…that Russ Lloyd Jr. will be our next City of Evansville Controller?…that the unwritten rule of being controller is that job one is that you can’t run out of cash to pay the bills?…that former Mayor and soon to be Controller Lloyd will have his handfuls paying the bills that are being run up by the Weinzapfel Administration in its last days in office?…that whatever the budget for 2012 was thought to be it is already busted by Mayor Weinzapfel’s December spending binge?
IS IT TRUE that Ted Ziemer will be name to be the next City of Evansville Attorney?…that this is another win for Mayor Elect Winnecke and his Transition Team?…that few people know that Mr. Ziemer was a champion of placing roughly $500,000 of the Vanderburgh County economic development funds into the hands of GAGE to help local businesses back in 2008 when Mayor Weinzapfel and Tom Barnett were redirecting revolving loan funds to pay for Front Door Pride houses, most of which are still sitting empty with a for sale sign up at nearly $100,000 less than was paid to build them?…that a champion for business who can actually add a column of numbers will be a welcome addition to the Office of the Mayor of Evansville?
IS IT TRUE that our illustrious Evansville Redevelopment Commission paid $603,000 for a parking lot and then turned around and leased that same parking lot to City Centre Properties LLC for a total of $1.00 for 40 years?…that we wonder if CCP has paid that dollar because if they have they control the parking lot for the next 36 years?…that if CCP wants to make some real trouble they could just hold onto that parking lot to get out of the parts of the deal that may not be so favorable to them?…that the chickens have come back to roost at the McCurdy with the pigeons, bats, snakes, and rats?
IS IT TRUE that it has now been 1,700 days since the announcement was made on May 14, 2007 that the McCurdy Hotel was to be refurbished into luxury apartments?…that it has now been 1,553 days since the Evansville Redevelopment Commission at the request of Mayor Weinzapfel approved the spending of $603,000 to purchase the parking lot?…that City Centre Properties and Scott Kosene the developers of the McCurdy project are both listed as contributors to the Weinzapfel for Mayor committee for 2010?…that that there are 8 days remaining in the Weinzapfel Administration?
IS IT TRUE that there are now 309 days remaining in the two years that the EPA had given the City of Evansville to present an acceptable solution to the Combined Sewer Overflow problem?…..that this plan is an expensive and complex endeavor that needs immediate attention to avoid the embarrassment and expense of another round of fines?