PUBLISHED: NOV 27TH, 2006 – 5:29PM (EST) UPDATED: AUG 26TH, 2016 – 6:34PM (EDT) Chris Proffitt/Eyewitness News Carmel – Soon, the City of Carmel will be a golf course owner for the first time. The city is buying Brookshire Golf Club for $2.6 million. Brookshire is an 18-hole course located north of 116th, south of 126th and […]
Category: Jim Brainard
The Performing Arts Center; Broken Promises
Easily the Crown Jewel of Mayor James C. Brainard’s reign the Palladium was a project run amuck from its beginnings in the 20th Century. Transparency and rising costs were the issue from 1999 forward. It has produced more noise than music. The noise began in earnest in 2000 when the source of the errors of […]
Woody Rider begs ‘Mr. Mayor please bring me a plan’
Mayor never rests, he was trying in October of 2016 to borrow for necessities. In 2017 the necessity was a Carousel and a Luxury Hotel. Councilor Rider begs the Mayor for a spending plan. All the Mayor has is a wish list and a need for millions of dollars of new funds. The Mayor’s Big […]
Orderly but Dumb, are we doing it right?
Carlson’s Law looks at the balance between autocracy and democracy in an organization: “In a world where so many people now have access to education and cheap tools of innovation, innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart. Innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly but […]
Mayor raises taxes 19% and asks for 40% raise the same year.
Mayor Brainard can’t handle the truth, or at the very least he has serious issues with honesty. This Facebook post from April 28, 2015 wasn’t just a known misstatement of fact by the Mayor it was an outright falsehood. Less than 6 months later he finalized a budget that resul ted in the 19% tax […]
Private Investigators investigated Private Carmel citizens for over a decade.
Mayor Brainard used private investigators to gather information on private citizens? The motivation seems to be to save us from a perceived threat by a powerful government official. Is there a double standard in City Hall? Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Why Nobody Should Be Surprised Carmel Is Using Private Investigators To Do Mayor Brainard’s Dirty […]
The Balance of Power in Carmel
Chuck Marohn President and Founder of Strong Towns comments on the preferred type of corruption If on the other hand, your corruption becomes large and institutional you get a Carmel IN. And that ladies and gentlemen is the measure of progress in Carmel that has occurred through Jim Brainard’s 24-year reign. #Dare2Share
City Center Parking’s $116,847/space Parking Garage Boondoggle
You didn’t read it wrong! Carmel paid $116,847/space for 184 spaces. $21.5M Total How much is the highest median cost / most expensive space in America, next to Carmel, it is $27,526 in NYC. Indy averaged $18,753. Edit note: March 20, 2019 – Received documentation that total paid was the $21.5M shown on attached contract. […]
Carmel has three times the debt of Fishers… Why?
Fact is all of the cities and towns on this list combined owe less than Carmel. That is right Carmel’s debt is greater than the all 5 of these in total. Standards & Poors cites debt in downgrading Carmel’s rating By Adam Aasen on November 15, 2017 Carmel Community Citing “the city’s rapidly increasing debt […]
Mayor involved in wreck in city-leased vehicle for second time in 2 years
By Ann Marie Shambaugh on December 30, 2018 Carmel Community For the second time in as many years, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard has been involved in a minor accident in a city-leased vehicle. A crash report from the Carmel Police Dept. states that the accident occurred at 2:44 p.m. Dec. 15 as Brainard traveled westbound […]