As you may be aware we have been reporting the JPG story here on our news page for the last few days. I received the below copy of email today. I think you can see for yourself that the writer of this email would like to suppress our right to freedom of speech. I am not sure if I should consider this a threat. We have also provide a copy of the public record of two pages of the plan.

It appears to me that a local attorney would like to suppress our right to freedom of speech.

Reply-To: goering@eaglaw.com
Sender: "Wil Goering" goering@eaglaw.com
From: goering@eaglaw.com
To: webmaster@oldmadison.com

Jeff...Your discussion about JPG claims "the attorneys didn't offer" to produce a copy of the army letter denying the economic development conveyance. The fact is neither you, nor your minions even asked me for a copy. Therefore your posting is deceptive. The labeling on your "rats" may be actionable as well. Proceed at your peril ...Wil

The proposed management and organizational structure is shown on the diagram on the following page. It indicates a staffing arrangement which reallocates existing local skills. The proposed LRA manager is an attorney who would spend one day per week on JPG responsibilities at a cost of $62,400. Five management functions would report to him, as described above. Real estate titles, contracts, and negotiations would be handled by another local attorney at an annual cost of $24,000. The annual audit of the LRA's finances would cost about $5,000. The administrative and finance office costs are estimated at $2,000 per year. Another $10,000 may be needed for unforeseen contingencies each year.
4. Staffing and Organization

a. The Reuse Plan (page 16) describes the need for a full time marketing specialist to contribute to a successful reuse process at JPG. The cost for a full time specialist was estimated to be $50,000. Administrative costs were estimated to run $105,000 annually and included the cost of an executive director at $50,00.0 to $60,000. According to the Reuse Plan, 'The goals of the JPGLRA (JPGRDS) will be to maximize and conserve resources, using them as productively as possible while meeting the community's obtectives" (Reuse Plan, p. 83).

b. In the Application the LRA proposes a management and organizational structure that includes a local attorney as the LRA manager at 20% time, real estate support from another local attorney, and marketing and promotion provided by the Madison-Jefferson County Industrial Development Corporation (MIDCOR).

(1) In the view of USACERL, it appears the LRA has lost sight of goal of using limited resources productvely. One could easily question the wisdom paying two partners in the same law firm a total of $86,400 (Application, p. 16) of the $105,00 administrative budget. However, the problem is the level of effort (hours), committed to the redevelopment project. The LRA manager, as it is proposed, would receive $62,400 annually for a one day per week commitment (20% time) and the remaining $24,000 would be for real estate support.

(a) It would appear that the LRA is committing 82% ($86.4k of $105k) of the Reuse Plan's proposed administrative budget for a part-time commitment of only 28% (576 of 2080 hours). This is a disproportional amount of the budget resources for a less than full time commitment.

(2) The marketing and promotions support would come from MIDCOR. It is MIOCOR's intent to add one marketing staff person (Application, p. 13). However, USACERL assumes that marketing and promotional responsibilities will continue to be divided over the regional area, This arrangement provides less than a 100% focus on the promotion and marketing of JPG and could lead to numerous conflicts with competing landlords in the area.

We have the rest of the denial if you would like to see it.