FW Redevelopment Authority/3-way liquor license application
Posted by John B. Kalb - 2/23/09 @ 2:15 pm - Filed Under Uncategorized
This morning in room 350 of the City/County Office Building, our local Allen Co. Alcoholic Beverage Board was to have met. They did not have a quorum so they could not hold the planned public hearing on the subject license application which was to cover Parkview Field. As a remonstrator against such issuance, I was in attendance. Due to the lack of the quorum plus the fact that there was a remonstrator against, it was necessary to postpone the hearing until March 16.
In discussions with the hearing officer, it was discovered that the application listed an incorrect name for the officer of the Authority making the application. Per IC 7.1, the president and the secretary of the applicant corporation are to formally make the application under their names representing the entity. This would be J. Nelson Coats, president and Deanna Wilkerson, secretary who are two of the officers of the Authority.
My reason for opposing this application as requested is that I don’t see the reasoning behind using an entity like the Authority to own this permit. Since the Authority was established specifically to enable circumvention of the State of Indiana’s constitutional limitation on governmental debt, it just does’nt make sense. (Remember that the Authority was set up first to enable building the Grand Wayne Center with borrowed funds - and now is also being used to carry the debt incurred to construct the unneeded new baseball stadium and the unnecessary new parking garage.) Hardball Capital, as manager of the stadium will be earning the lion’s share of the profits on the sale of probably $3.50 beers plus the wine and liquor that will be sold in the bar in the stadium. SO WHY IS THE AUTHORITY APPLYING AND PAYING FOR THE NECESSARY PERMIT????
I plan to testify on March 16 and, if necessary, appeal to the State Commission about this matter.
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Does anyone know who owns the Coliseum’s liquor license? Is it the private concessionaire or Allen County?
A $3.50 beer would be a bargain. You had to go to Memorial Stadium on a special night to get a beer under $5.
Thanks for the update John. And CR is right - the beer is going to cost more than $3.50…
Off topic but have you guys heard of the big raid today here in Indy of the Omni Source facility?
Indy Lurker…Masson has a post with a link to the Indianapolis Star story. Sounds like a major raid too.
City Resident - I checked with CJ at the Coliseum before the meeting was planmned this morning and the liquor license is owned by the Coliseum Board of Control - which makes sense - but then their financing of Memorial Stadium was not done with bonding dollars so they didn’t have a Mickey- Mouse Authority to beat the constitutional limitation on indebtedness by a political entity.
And I guess it’s been a while since I bought a beer at Memorial Stadium.
The list of project cost per school tells me nothing unless there’s a detailed listing of what it’s for and what the justification is. Last time for example they were spending $40 million (plus interest) for wholesale “piping replacements” while they we spending only $250K per year fixing pipe.
The constant moaning that they can’t find spare parts is BS. You can always get spare parts. It’s a question of time and cost. During 30 years I spent in the chemical process industry we NEVER got rid of a piece of equipment because we couldn’t find spare parts. And we NEVER did wholesale replacements of piping beause “it was old”.
Having said that, if Wendy can get the Feds to pay for it, by all means go for it.
Oops! Sorry. I stuck this at the end of the wrong blog.
John and company, don’t buy beer if you can’t afford it. If it’s more then 3.50$ buy a case and stay home! Sounds like a plan…cheap mothers
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