The Indianapolis Business Journal
reports:
A representative of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard told Marion County
judges Monday that the request for proposals the city
issued to three teams competing to design,
finance and construct a criminal justice facility is not a document the
public
can see.
Kurt Fullbeck, senior policy advisor for
economic development, said at a meeting of the general term of Marion
Superior judges
that the document would be public if it
were for particular goods and services. But because the specifications
also involve
operation of a jail, criminal courts and
other judicial offices, the procurement procedure was different and not
covered by
state law making RFPs public.
...
The city has denied requests for the RFP
from the Indianapolis Business Journal. However, Indiana Public
Access Counselor Luke Britt said recently
in a letter that the city had failed to justify its denial of a request
to produce
the document for public inspection.
Fullbeck said the city was “currently
working with the public access counselor” and insisted that the city has
no obligation to make public those
documents relating to a potentially $500 million public works project....
Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana, who has worked in the procurement area and
has written explaining in detail the procurement law disclosures required and how the Ballard administration is violating that law. This time Welsh
notes how the media, sans the IBJ, has been silent on the administration's refusal to comply with transparency laws on a project that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars:
As I've previously reported, the Indianapolis Star (then controlled by
the Pulliam family) and the Hoosier State Press Association were at the
forefront in assuring that a state law enacted by the legislature back
in the 1990s contained provisions to ensure transparency in the awarding
of public-private agreements precisely like the one contemplated by
this project. Yet the Gannett-owned Star, which endorsed the project
before any fiscal analysis had been conducted, has been totally silent
on the Ballard administration's flaunting of state law. Incredibly, the
administration claims it can acquire the more than half billion dollar
criminal justice center without spending a dime more than it currently
spends on criminal justice facilities.
GIPC, the shadow nonprofit organization controlled by downtown
elites which makes all of our most critical local government decisions
in secret, recommended the P3 approach for the project. GIPC includes a
management employee of the Star on its governing board of directors. All
of the local television news stations also have management employees
serving on the board of GIPC and have similarly refused to expose the
corrupt and secretive process being undertaken by the Ballard
administration. By their actions, the local news media is effectively
conspiring with the Ballard administration to defraud Indianapolis
taxpayers.
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