UPDATE: Check out this e-mail Councilor Zach Adamson received from Dennis Rosebrough, a member of the Board of Public Works, defending the World Sports Park boondoggle. Rosebrough likens criticism of the expenditure to those who criticized former Mayor William Hudnut's construction of the Hoosier Dome, which was leveled to make room for a new stadium and convention center expansion before hardly a dollar of the principle owed on the debt had been paid down. Rosebrough is a PR flack for the BMV. I don't know why the hell we allow government employees to be appointed to these boards. He has no business serving on this board. He has a life-time membership in the downtown mafia and all that that implies, which means he will always screw over the taxpayers to support the corrupt pay-to-play establishment that runs this town.
From: Rosebrough, Dennis [mailto:drosebrough@bmv.IN.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:28 AM
To: Adamson, Zach W.
Cc: Robertlparrin@aol.com; 'Laura Sniadecki'; Miser, Lori; neil.bloede@hotmail.com; Lotter, Marc E.
Subject: RE: Global Sports Complex
Good morning Councilor. Thanks for sharing your opinion. Improving parks infrastructure seems to be an appropriate use of the funds. At the end of the project, we end up with first class athletic fields that can be used for many activities including soccer, lacrosse and other games that require fields. The design does not preclude any use including cricket or Gaelic sports. In the worst case scenario, we end up with a beautiful, multi-functional recreational facility on the east side of the city that can be used by young and old. It could also become a regional center for emerging sports like cricket and draw thousands of people to our community in the future.
There were those who thought a domed stadium addition to the Convention Center was foolish and that even involved a new tax. As a member of the PR group for the that project, we heard all of the arguments. With Mayor Hudnut’s and the City-Council’s bold vision, it was built - and as they say, “the rest is history.” Obviously, this project is not even in the same league (maybe $5 million cost and no tax impact vs. $50 million and a new tax), but it does represent a “vision” for our community. I will proudly continue to support this project.
Dennis L. Rosebrough
Deputy Commissioner - External Affairs Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
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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.
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteAs 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.
Parrin and Bloede are members of the Board of Public Works, yet use private email to conduct business.
ReplyDeleteInteresting 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.
ReplyDeleteAND the windfall (waterfall?) $$ obtained by selling the water company has about run dry, so to speak.
...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!
ReplyDelete(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...
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.
ReplyDelete"...maybe $5 million cost and no tax impact..."
ReplyDeleteRight, 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.