Comments on Advance Indiana™: Board Of Public Works Scheduled To Approve $2.4 Million Contract For World Sports Park Tomorrow

"...maybe $5 million cost and no tax impact.....

2013-05-07T22:53:56.409-05:00

"...maybe $5 million cost and no tax impact..."

Right, I guess when you steal the money from ratepayers, you don't have to acknowledge that it is a tax.

500 million dollars down the drain - Rebuild Indy - What a joke. As mentioned by another commentator, the roads are worse than ever, meanwhile they come up with silly projects to spend money on - but, of course, is any setting aside any money for maintenance? The Parks are maintained now, but somehow we can create a world-class facility that entices cricket players to flock to little park on the eastside. It is all so silly, so sad and so criminal.

This insanity would've been roundly criticized...

2013-05-07T20:58:26.497-05:00

This insanity would've been roundly criticized in 2007, during a much better economy, on the basis of out of touch government & out of control spending.

...instead of $2.4M for a unneeded and rarely used...

2013-05-07T18:53:17.349-05:00

...instead of $2.4M for a unneeded and rarely used "World Sports Park", how about increasing the hours our park's swimming pools are open??? It would be great to be able to have night time swimming when the temperatures are over 80!

(Didn't Ballard cut back the pool season and number of hours they're open a while back?)

Of course I can think of 3 shootings in the last day or so off the top of my head: 42nd/Post, 34th/Brouse, and Washington/Sheridan...I wonder if that money were better spent on hiring more police...

Interesting timing of this. Just yesterday WRTV-6...

2013-05-07T17:15:24.987-05:00

Interesting timing of this. Just yesterday WRTV-6 ran a story about how despite blowing through $420 million our streets are still largely crumbling into gravel.

AND the windfall (waterfall?) $$ obtained by selling the water company has about run dry, so to speak.

Parrin and Bloede are members of the Board of Publ...

2013-05-07T14:53:18.657-05:00

Parrin and Bloede are members of the Board of Public Works, yet use private email to conduct business.

This is probably the same Dennis Rosebrough that w...

2013-05-07T14:43:52.696-05:00

This is probably the same Dennis Rosebrough that was a flack for the Airport Authority for several years. Went around singing the praises of how the "new" airport would be the salvation of Indianapolis.
As it turns out, Bart Peterson "sold" the airport to Hendricks County, which now gets all the tax money from a multiple of new businesses around the new entrance to the airport.

Nice puff piece, perhaps he might look up the cost...

2013-05-07T11:48:32.648-05:00

Nice puff piece, perhaps he might look up the cost of the Dome. How about 77.5 million dollars, that's just a touch more than 50 million dollars. By the way the tax for the never paid off the dome but hey that Indy politics.

Looks like they hit the jackpot here's what I ...

2013-05-07T09:37:13.150-05:00

Looks like they hit the jackpot here's what I found on the web:

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