tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8571002964584300471..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28403929428923719832010-08-31T04:03:25.851-05:002010-08-31T04:03:25.851-05:00Arts Council grants, Cultural tourism grants, paving parking lots grants- from the same CIB that &quot;manages&quot; stadiums? While we&#39;re simultaneously lacking funding for public safety, education, and infrastructure repair? Between this and the water deal, what city-county entity DOESN&#39;T have the ability to take our tax dollars and spend it on ANYTHING?<br /><br />The Library (home of the brilliant idea to &quot;save money&quot; by not properly supervising downtown expansion) &amp; IndyGo will be RAISING property taxes? <br /><br />Earth to the CIB, Library &amp; IndyGo: Ever hear of priorities? Ever hear of tax caps? Ask Pat Bauer- even he has heard of them. Have you heard that GM is closing a plant downtown because the economy is still bad? <br /><br />Sports are an enjoyable luxury when you can afford it. Who doesn&#39;t appreciate a well-paved parking lot instead of a bunch of potholes? I like libraries &amp; the arts more than the average person. But, if the the real basics aren&#39;t even being taken care of- don&#39;t ask for more money we don&#39;t have!dcrutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12856825454020971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-62273367540879904832010-08-30T19:25:55.131-05:002010-08-30T19:25:55.131-05:00&quot;corrupt organizer crime ring that runs town&quot; -- you have got that right, dear Gary, and thank you for all the work you are doing, to try to expose its members, its nefarious activities, and those that cover up for them.Marycatherine Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14674049191412285346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-83224349964354922252010-08-30T12:05:05.857-05:002010-08-30T12:05:05.857-05:00I&#39;m reaching the boiling point. <br /><br />Whatever! <br /><br />Greg Ballard is going to be thoroughly humiliated and trashed when he&#39;s up for re-election. <br /><br />He doesn&#39;t have a snow balls chance in HELL of winning. He created the Hell he now lives in (by the way), with every deceitful game he&#39;s played with our money. <br /><br />Had he only set up a kitchen cabinet with the activists that got him elected, we would not be here now. <br /><br />Instead, our mayor that we worked day and night for months to get elected to office, turned his back on us, The People, in favor of his new rich friends, Barnes &amp; Thornburg, and their interests over ours. <br /><br />He scorns the people who fought for him.M Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892309818226431745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-30839470026388284012010-08-30T11:28:24.439-05:002010-08-30T11:28:24.439-05:00We&#39;ve decided that professional sports are more important than graduation rates, open libraries, and a respected police department. It&#39;s about that simple. <br /><br />How much smoke and mirrors has to happen before we privatize stadium management? We&#39;re to routinely hand this over to an entity that will support the Mayor and associated henchmen? What if we were to divide the responsibilities of maintaining our stadiums among competitive vendors, or pick a single private vendor with at least as good a record of facility management as political cronyism? <br /><br />We&#39;re still supposed to buy the con that professional sports are a net enhancement to a medium market? With an endless stadium replacement loop, fluctuating support, and fiscal blasphemy like the Colts keeping non-football concession revenue, we&#39;re still supposed to buy that line? <br /><br />How bad do things have to get? You tell me. Evidently worse than 10% unemployment, half the IPS children graduating, a library board deciding where to reduce hours, and inadequately trained and supervised policemen.dcrutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12856825454020971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-20571257745424774112010-08-30T10:06:52.782-05:002010-08-30T10:06:52.782-05:00Isn&#39;t the use of TIF funds inappropriate? By that I mean the language that establishes the CIB does not include any discussion of property taxes as a revenue stream for the CIB. In fact it discusses bonds; capital improvement bond fund, revenue bonds and excise taxes but no where does it discuss the use of property tax dollars.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09490253182039581408noreply@blogger.com