WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.000 It's an a voice in the dark, heard daily exactly 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.519 the things that need to be said. 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:11.759 Fifty five krc the talk station A six here at 4 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:14.800 fifty five KRCD Talk station. Ay, very happy Friday to you, 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.079 Brie time. As pleased as he can be, and I 6 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:18.879 hope you're pleased too. I know that Corey Bowman is 7 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.039 in studio staring at him face to face to talk 8 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.359 about his race for the mayor city of Cincinnati as 9 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.839 a Republican. Every time I say that out loud, there's 10 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:28.920 a Republican running for a mayor in the city of 11 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.039 Cincinnati named Corey Bowman, is like, yeah, Okay, we know 12 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:33.520 you got a little bit of an uphill challenge, but 13 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.240 maybe not as much as I think people's initial reaction 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:40.200 might be. Corey, welcome back, man. It's great seeing you. Hey, 15 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:44.439 great cn you thanks for having me my pleasure. I 16 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.520 let's start with the debate. I have in my notes 17 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.320 that it looks like you are scheduled to have a 18 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.719 debate with Purval next week. 19 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:51.520 Yeah. 20 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.560 So, as far as what we've been told is that 21 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.159 all three candidates have agreed to do the debate March 22 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.439 twenty fifth, we're just waiting on the terms right now. 23 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.719 So if anybody from the Inquirer is listening, you know, 24 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:03.159 they said that they were going to have it to 25 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.480 us last week and so we would greatly appreciate those terms. 26 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.680 And I know you want it to be streamed live, 27 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.680 and this day and age, I can't think of a 28 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.439 single justifiable reason why it wouldn't be streamed live. 29 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.719 Yeah, the biggest thing about this campaign has to be transparency, 30 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.439 you know, getting the word out on what all three 31 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.079 candidates represent and then letting people have. 32 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:27.200 The choice, well, will this debate be open to the public. 33 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:29.040 That's what we're being told. 34 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.000 Yes, okay, so one of the terms that you don't 35 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.799 quite know, but at least it's been initially told. Anything 36 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.680 else along the terms of conditions, lines that got you 37 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.599 concerned or that you're insisting on, that might be interesting. 38 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.000 I think the biggest thing is the transparency of the 39 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:44.799 live streaming, just making sure that people are able to attend, 40 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:47.680 people can hear all the sides of it, and then 41 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.519 what are the terms of the questioning and how that 42 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:51.680 how that format's going to. 43 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.079 Go and it will be conducted by the Inquirer staff. 44 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:55.359 That's what I'm being told. 45 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.480 Yeah, this is my first rodeo with it, but it's 46 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.719 not my first first rodeo with dealing with people. 47 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:03.239 So at the same time, your ministry is it requires 48 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.239 you to be involved with people all of the time. 49 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.080 And what's on the campaign trail, you've been out meeting people, 50 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.360 and of course the owner of a business, you meet 51 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.080 people all the time. So it shouldn't be too much 52 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.560 of a struggle. Do you know if you're gonna get 53 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.319 the questions ahead of time? Are they going to provide 54 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.360 advanced questions or are you just gonna fly by your 55 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:20.199 seat of your pants? 56 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:20.879 Not for sure. 57 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.319 These are things that Yeah, that's basically what we're being told, right. 58 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.280 You know which day of the week it is next week, 59 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.719 as far as we're told, March twenty fifth. All right, well, 60 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.000 I got my popcorn out. I'm looking to see how 61 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.479 you did. How you do because I think everybody can 62 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.960 admit out of the mold of like a Gavin Newsom, 63 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.319 you know, I have to have purvol is a pretty 64 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.919 polished guy. He comes across as a really slick and 65 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.759 I think perhaps too slick, just like Gavin Newsom. You know, 66 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.960 you just like, wait a second, it's just not something right, 67 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.800 And at least that's my impression. Apologies that you met 68 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:55.639 have to have purple. You can make all the fun 69 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:56.800 you want of them, how I look. 70 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.800 But well, no, if he is, let's see, I met 71 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.400 him for the first time several to go oh really yeah, 72 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:03.800 it was a very very nice conversation. The funny thing 73 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.360 was is that I was walking to meet mister Brad 74 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.199 or Colonel Brad's wind strip, getting great advice from him. 75 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.560 He's a great man. And so on the way there, 76 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.479 Mayor Aftab was coming down the stairs and so I 77 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.360 was just like, yeah, of course I want to meet him. 78 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.719 And then this young guy came up to me and said, hey, 79 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.479 can you take a picture of me with Mayor Aftab? 80 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.039 And I was like, yeah, for sure. So I'm sitting 81 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.319 there holding the camera taking a picture. But then as 82 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.439 soon as as soon as that interaction is done, I 83 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.800 shake Mayor Aftab's hand. I just said, you did an 84 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.879 amazing job speaking tonight, and it's just very kind man. 85 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:38.360 So good. 86 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:38.919 See. 87 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.199 I like your reaction, like your attitude an animosity zone. 88 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.039 But see, but that's that's your nature. And again, going 89 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.560 back to your being a minister, I would expect that 90 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.159 from you, you know, what I mean. 91 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.360 Well, what I tell people is like he is a 92 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.360 husband and a father and he's in public service. I 93 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.280 would assume that people get in public service to help people. 94 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.719 A base scullable but base. What I'm seeing over the 95 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.159 last four years, I just feel like we're the better 96 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.360 candidate good. 97 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.639 And a lot of reasons for that. And your number 98 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.840 one policy pillar, that's Coreybowman dot com. Bowm An, Coreybowman 99 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.879 dot com. There's a little donate buttony upright, Cancorn. I 100 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.319 might encourage my listeners to pay you throw five, ten bucks, 101 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.399 whatever you can afford. Every little bit counts. It all 102 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.480 adds up. Get some signed, get some merch and getever 103 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.279 you can get the name and spread the word responsible 104 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:32.240 money management. We could go on for ours about the 105 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.480 irresponsible nature of governments, generally speaking, most notably the city 106 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:40.079 of Cincinnati. I've been so enlightened by the work of 107 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.639 Todd zenz Or, former Inspector General. He watches them like 108 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:48.439 a hawk, and he has revealed so much craziness in 109 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.279 terms of where we spend our money. And I can 110 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.759 go back to the streetcar, which costs US five plus 111 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.319 million dollars a year for debt service as well as 112 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.720 maintenance rarely used. I don't think it serves society a 113 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:02.160 benefit at all, But there's that there's the deteriorating roads 114 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.000 that we all face all the time. In fact, west 115 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.399 Side Jim Kiefer Corey came into are called up today 116 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:10.879 and said he's going to invite or has invited the 117 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:16.040 mayor and all of the council members to an event 118 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.399 that's being held up at Price Hill, Chile. So they 119 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.879 have to take Sunset Avenue and drive over it. It's 120 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.199 my favorite tea, Sunset is it's my best illustration of 121 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.000 a street that looks like it's been torn out of 122 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.639 a war torn area like Gaza or something, and it's 123 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.800 never been fixed and it's been years and years. Forced 124 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.399 them to drive over it, which will be a great idea, 125 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:41.199 but it just is an illustration of infrastructure falling a hard. 126 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.680 They don't take care of what they've got. They want 127 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:45.839 to build something new, like the skateboard park. 128 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.040 Your response, Yeah, well, I think that Whenever I first 129 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.360 started the campaign, I was asking people what were the 130 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.879 most important issues that you have on your heart when 131 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.160 it comes to the city of Cincinnati, And there's a 132 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.360 lot of you know, hot topic issues. There's a lot 133 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.839 of things that people care about, but I'll tell you 134 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:02.879 that the majority of them. As I looked at them 135 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.240 and as I kind of research, I realized that, you know, 136 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.680 eighty ninety percent of these issues are related to money management. 137 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.120 When we talk about the infrastructure. See, when it comes 138 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.879 to money management and budgeting, nobody has a perfect model necessarily, 139 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.959 But I will say that the most important thing with 140 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.959 money management is your priorities. What is going to be 141 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:24.480 your priorities, and then whenever those priorities are lining up 142 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.399 to common sense and helping the people, and then no 143 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.720 matter what, Yeah, there might be certain issues that you 144 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.720 want to push like, but those things can't take a 145 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:38.560 precedent or can't be first above infrastructure and roads and 146 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.639 things that really that's what the city is responsible for. 147 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.279 Yeah, I mean, I go back to the broken windows concept. 148 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.759 If you take care of something and it looks pleasing visually, 149 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.879 it looks welcoming and accommodating, people are going to want 150 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.560 to go there or perhaps consider it for business. I mean, 151 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.680 you chose one of the more difficult neighborhoods to start 152 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.680 your business over in the West End, right, I mean, 153 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.639 and you've bettered that neighborhood by providing you know, jobs 154 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:05.519 in at least a place where people get a good 155 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:07.879 cup of coffee. But it was challenging for you when 156 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:08.399 you did that. 157 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.240 Yeah, I mean, honestly, I have a co owner that 158 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.839 you know, whenever he came and visited, he saw the 159 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:18.439 mission of our church that's also in the West End 160 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.680 as well, and we saw the community. And basically, you know, 161 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.040 when you have the mentality like we have, it's you 162 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.160 go to the places that need help. You don't just 163 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.720 go to the places that all we're going to obviously 164 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.639 it's going to be an easy ride there. No, we 165 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:34.959 have a mission on our heart to impact the city. 166 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:37.079 And when you see the people that are suffering the most, 167 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.279 that's where you have to do something about it, whether 168 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.519 it be with church, whether it be with ministry or business, 169 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:42.319 whatever it might be. 170 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:44.879 Well, and that's got to be music to many neighborhood's 171 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:48.439 ears who are often completely overlooked. I mean, the West 172 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.199 Side is one of them. It's like as if the 173 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.360 council doesn't even know there is anything exists beyond the 174 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.439 bridge that needs to be replaced with the viaduct, right, Yeah, 175 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.079 well that's where that's where the entire city stops. 176 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:01.680 It is right there. 177 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.079 It's like you go over the edge of the of 178 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:03.839 the flat earth. 179 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.480 Well, what I see is that when people first come 180 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.639 into Cincinnati, obviously there's certain areas that they visit, and 181 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.199 on the surface, you know, Cincinnati is a great city. 182 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.680 I'm not here saying that Cincinnati as a hellhole and 183 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.519 we're just coming in and fix everything. There's a reason 184 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.759 why me and my family live here, because I really 185 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.480 believe it's the greatest city on earth. But what I 186 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.160 feel is that there's many communities that have just been 187 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:29.040 forgotten about or not been prioritized just because it doesn't 188 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.240 fit the Instagram model of our city. It doesn't fit 189 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.600 the social media model of our city. Oh well, we've 190 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.120 got to make everything look a certain way. We've got 191 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.759 to make people believe that we stand for certain issues. 192 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.360 But yet there's people on the outskirts that there's people 193 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.679 that are in other districts that are being forgotten about. 194 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.960 With that question, you know, how is it that Findlay 195 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.799 Market and that surrounding area got gentrified and had all 196 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.879 that money put into it to the exclusion of all 197 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.519 of the other options that are out there in the world. 198 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.559 I mean, there's some really deteriorating neighborhoods that have some 199 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:02.679 amazing houses, an ability to rehab and go in and 200 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.600 you know, if you make it a more welcoming environment 201 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.960 for business and for that type of project to happen, 202 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.879 maybe it will and maybe those neighborhoods could be improved 203 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.720 as well. Coreybowman dot Com. We'll continue with him. We 204 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:14.159 got in for the full hour here. I want to 205 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.879 run some speaking of financial things, Todd Zenza did some 206 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.480 number crunching. I just want to propose a couple of 207 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.440 ideas from that work. It's eight fifteen right now, be 208 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:23.320 right back after these. 209 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.200 Brief words, fifty five KRC for more information. 210 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.480 Five of the Channel nine first Warning weather forecast got 211 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.480 a sunnyday to day with a high fifty four overnight 212 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.720 clear and forty two fifty six under sunny skies. Tomorrow 213 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.320 overnight down to thirty two with partly thought the skies, 214 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.360 and then it hits on Sunday. They're calling for rain 215 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.759 and storms and even severe weather on Sunday six. You 216 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:44.919 go to be fifty five for a high end right now, 217 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.799 thirty one degrees and time for an update on traffic. 218 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:49.840 From the UCL Trampings Center. 219 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.519 The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center offers innovative clinical trials 220 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.559 and the region's only young onset call the Rectal Cancer 221 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:59.519 Program called five one three, five to eighty five. You 222 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.240 see see see all recks on the highways clear southbound 223 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.519 seventy five starting to get better between seventy four. In 224 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.679 downtown southbound two seventy five, there's a broken down just 225 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.279 after you come off of the Carroll Cropper Bridge, adding 226 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.840 to the construction delays from the Warrens Purn Ramp Chuck 227 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:17.399 Ingram on. 228 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:19.840 Fifty five krs. The talk station. 229 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.399 Hey Take nineteen fifty five KRC DE talk Station. 230 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.960 Enchoir article does answer some of the questions about the 231 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.279 Bowman debate, which will include a mayrafta provol and challengers 232 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:39.279 plural Corey Bowman and Brian Frank. March twenty fifth. It's 233 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.440 open to the public, it is free. It's going to 234 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:44.080 be held the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts at 235 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:48.000 forty nine to ninety Glenway Avenue, beginning at seven pm. 236 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.159 Provide an opportunity for residents to engage directly with the 237 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.720 candidates ahead of early voting, which takes place April eighth, 238 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.919 and then the May sixth, the primary Enchoir Opinion editor 239 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.879 Kevin Aldridge will be moderating the debate. So still no 240 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.440 answer to the question about live streaming. But there's the 241 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.320 details and you can find those on my blog page 242 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.240 at fifty five carosee dot com and of course this 243 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.360 conversation on the podcast page when I'm done talking with 244 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:12.639 Corey Bowman, who is in studio again, going back to 245 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.519 Corey Bowman dot com and keeping in with the financial conversation. 246 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.200 And I love the work that Todd Zenzer does because 247 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.679 he stays on these guys like White on Rice. Budget 248 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:25.440 Finance Committee held a meeting on the seventeenth. Several items 249 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:29.399 tabled in the agenda, but they included two proposed bond 250 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:35.200 ordinances which will authorize the City of Cincinnati borrow notice 251 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.600 the sound of my voice thirty five million dollars. Five 252 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:41.639 and a half of it goes to the OTR Center 253 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:45.279 Health Center project, the other twenty nine for something called 254 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.279 the Finley Community Center Project. And I have no concept 255 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.159 of what those are. And he asked some simple questions, Corey, 256 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:53.639 what due diligence was carried out, What are the terms 257 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.000 of specific of the bonds. There's nothing in there to 258 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.879 explain what the interest rate is, what do you need? 259 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.840 Why do you need to issue bonds? He points out properly, 260 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:05.200 the city took in nineteen million dollars more in revenues 261 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.600 than was budgeted only a few months from the end 262 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.919 of the fiscal year. Last year, the city had sixty 263 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:14.120 five million dollars surplus. And he points out something logical 264 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:15.919 that no one really takes into account. The debt service 265 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.000 on the bond will cost the city millions of dollars 266 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.120 over time, So why are we borrowing money? And more fundamentally, Corey, 267 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.399 and here's something that you, as a mayor, would have 268 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.159 to ride herd over and insist on before these kind 269 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.320 of proposals come on your in front of you. Todd 270 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.480 points out the comprehensive financial statement report for fiscal year 271 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.200 twenty four hasn't even been published yet. He says, before 272 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.960 you vote on such a sizable bond issue, shouldn't you 273 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.399 understand the current financial condition of the city, for which 274 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:44.600 the financial statement audit will greatly help? 275 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.000 Simple point, and that makes profound sense. 276 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:51.240 No, you're exactly true. I think the one of the 277 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.519 biggest things that you're saying there is that the report 278 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:56.279 hasn't been released from last year, and you made the 279 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.759 point right there. You have to know where you are 280 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.639 before you can know where you're going. And I think 281 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:03.519 that I just use the example of like I mean, 282 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.320 if you don't know you know where you are financially 283 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.799 and you just keep on purchasing by now on Amazon, 284 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.240 then you're just digging yourself more in a hole. And 285 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:14.200 many people just assume that we can just do this 286 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.879 or do that, but no, and I think that's the 287 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.720 biggest thing when these issues come out, like let's say, 288 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.919 you know, let's put a new arena in, let's do 289 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.320 this or that, which are things that we agree with, 290 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:27.720 but you have to know where the heck are we 291 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.440 financially and do we have the ability to just set 292 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.600 a good foundation to where the decisions that we make 293 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.600 going forward are actually going to improve us economically. 294 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.440 Like planning ahead for a rainy day. If you think 295 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.559 we need a new arena, and I know that, you know, 296 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.879 I still call it the coliseum because I'm old school, 297 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:47.960 and I remember when the Cincinnati Stingers used to play 298 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.480 back way back when we had hockey, but seen many 299 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.399 a concert there. But Okay, so it's old, it's out 300 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.960 of date. It could use some upgrades, or it could 301 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.840 be torn down in something rebuilt elsewhere or there. I 302 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.200 don't care. But it's going to cost a lot of money. 303 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.000 We all know that, so we don't have it. Now, 304 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.639 put a plan in place and start saving for it. 305 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.799 We have a reserve fund. It's something where you can 306 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.799 at least allocate the funds and over time see them 307 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.320 grow and build. Don't spend it on shiny new objects, 308 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.519 but still take care of the stuff you're responsible for doing, 309 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.120 and say, look, we've already got it on the list 310 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.600 of things we plan on doing. We're just not going 311 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.240 to dig ourselves into a multi million dollar financial hole 312 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.279 for decades to come servicing bonds when we have lived 313 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.240 without a new one for a long time and I 314 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.200 don't know that anybody's gotten hurt because of it. No, 315 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.039 it's all about priorities. It's all about priorities. We're talking 316 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.360 about years that we've been sold as a city to 317 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.919 sell a railroad and to be able to put funds 318 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:49.159 toward infrastructure, and then all of a sudden you're seeing 319 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.600 that a year later where they're holding it because you 320 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.480 can't just put one point six billion dollars into like 321 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.519 a money market bank account, right, You've got to have someplace. 322 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.120 So I understand the concept of putting the funds in 323 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.200 a place that's going to yield return, so that doesn't depreciate. 324 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.080 But the reality of it is that from what we're seeing, 325 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.480 and you had Adam Kohler on earlier, and you can 326 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.480 see the stats on this, is that we're seeing maybe 327 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:16.080 a one percent yield on it, but the inflation of 328 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.919 the cost of this infrastructure keeps on going up and 329 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:22.159 up and up, So essentially you're losing money every year 330 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.600 that you don't put it into the infrastructure. A great point, 331 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.960 and I'm glad you brought down back up because Adam 332 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.240 Adam was just very very pointed as analysis about that 333 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:33.000 it now costs double the amount to fix the road 334 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:34.799 that it did like just a year or so ago 335 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.519 because the materials cost of increase. Yeah, and that's a 336 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.679 regularly occurring phenomenon, and that just shows it's not a priority. 337 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.200 It just shows that it's not a priority on your list, 338 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.840 that there's other things that you would rather spend money 339 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.120 on or focus on rather than just going right from 340 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.320 day one and just saying, let's fix the damn roads. 341 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:51.399 Yeah, amen to that. 342 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:53.600 All right, it's paused a little bit early in this break, 343 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.639 and we'll continue with Corey Bowman for a couple more segments. 344 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.320 Find out what else he's got. He wants the lowered 345 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:01.639 regulation in taxes too, something I thoroughly embrace, and that 346 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.759 would be a magnet for more humanity move in the 347 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.000 city limits. More with Corey after these words, the Senate 348 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:10.480 Democrats all voting against protection for women in sports when 349 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.799 it comes to trans women? 350 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:13.639 Why stop at sports? 351 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.159 Every single person who played high school or college sports 352 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.480 knows this is complete bs. Our guys could easily transition 353 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.519 into the most powerful women in America. 354 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:28.399 Woke mind virus Buck is so powerful for. 355 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.240 Them play trans Travis and Buck sex change. 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Chuck King ram 376 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.279 on fifty five KR see the talk station. 377 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.359 A twenty eight fifty five KRCD talk station. 378 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.079 It's a Happy Friday. Corey Boma dot com. It'shere you 379 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.079 find mayoral candidate Corey Bowman's website. Opportunity to help out 380 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:44.559 the campaign and his UH seven policy pillars, which were 381 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.839 kind of walking through right now. This year briefly got 382 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:50.319 a practical housing approach. We have talked about this before, Corey, 383 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:53.880 and you know I mean on the face of the 384 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.440 simple economic rout that there's a low supplying demand. Some 385 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.279 neighborhoods already more demand than others. Those obviously have higher 386 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.960 home prices, and if you can't afford those, that presents 387 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.400 an opportunity for maybe some of these other neighborhoods with 388 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.599 more affordable housing to turn around. I remember, and it's 389 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.240 turned around a lot over the last several decades. Norwood 390 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.440 was sort of one of those lesser desired communities, but 391 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:17.000 you know, it's blown up. I mean, you're right next 392 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.519 to Hyde Park, which was always expensive. You got openly 393 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.799 right there. But nor has become a desirable place to live, 394 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.640 and I think the housing has gone up some in price, 395 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.640 so we might guess anyway, But there are other neighborhoods 396 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.319 out there who are that seem to be ripe and 397 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.039 ready for that type of transformation. 398 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:32.640 Yeah. 399 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.720 I think a big issue with what we're dealing with 400 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.960 in downtown in the West End area is that you're 401 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.200