The Capital Improvement Board gets to operate the two surface parking lots that now exist in the footprint of the old Market Square Arena (NE and SE corners of Market and Alabama). They contract with Denison parking for the actual operations. Back in 2008, the only year I have documentation of net proceeds, the CIB brought in $788,693.12, and that was considered a typical year.
During the Super Bowl festivities, the CIB will alternate when they and the NFL get use of the northern parking lot. The NFL gets to charge whatever it feels and has the responsibility of paying for the operation of the lot during the times it is scheduled to oversee the lot. I have uploaded the schedule to Google docs. The rate column shows the price the CIB will charge when it is scheduled to operate the lot. If xxxx appears in the rate column, it indicates a time scheduled for NFL operation of the lot.
Here's the general summary of the schedule for the northern MSA parking lot:
The CIB will operate the lot and charge its normal $6 all day parking rate on:
January 27 (Friday) -- 7 am - 4 pm only
January 30 (Monday) through February 3 (Friday) schedule -- 7 am - 4 pm only
February 6 (Monday) -- 7 am - 4 pm
On Sunday February 5, the CIB will operate the lot from 2 am to 11 pm, charging $99 a day.
The NFL will operate the lot and charge what they like on:
January 27 (Friday) at 4 pm through January 30 (Monday) at 7 am [the entire weekend]
January 30 (Monday) through February 2 (Thursday) -- 4 pm - 11:59 pm only
February 3 (Friday) at 4pm through February 5 (Sunday) at 2 am [half the weekend]
In addition, the CIB will raise rates on the southern lot the weekend of the Superbowl, charging $199 for a weekend tailgate pass from February 3 (Friday) at 6 pm through February 6 (Monday) at 6 am.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Super Bowl Costs FINALLY Beginning To Be Revealed
Thanks to all of my alert readers who have sent me links to news items reporting that some of the costs of the Super Bowl are FINALLY being revealed. So, lets move forward here by listing our references and listing the costs now being reported. To put it into perspective, the 2012 Super Bowl bid was submitted in April, 2008, and its terms are what are falling out into public view just 19 days before the event.
Articles of interest used for this blog entry in the order I received the links from alert readers:
Scott Olson, IBJ, 1-16-12 -- "CIB expects to lose money during Super Bowl"
Jon Murray, IndyStar, 1-17-12 -- "Super Bowl 2012 will drop Capital Improvement Board for a loss"
Mike Corbin, WIBC, 12-21-11 -- "Super Bowl Host Committee Releases Final Numbers"
Let's start with the last one and the claims of the Host Committee CEO, Mark Miles.
He claims that the "they've raised and are investing $154 million for some 250 housing units as part of the Super Bowl Legacy Project." Well, as I recall, federal funds coming to the City were the bulk of the money being invested in the near eastside neighborhood. Those funds were augmented by the NFL, but a clear accounting of the exact dollar amounts supplied by taxpayers but not credited to them has not been forthcoming. From what I have heard, the lion's share of the investment comes from the taxpayer, not the host committee or the NFL, yet they are the ones getting nearly all the credit.
Also claimed is that the Host Committee "has also raised close to $27 million, surpassing the $25 million goal needed to host the 2012 Super Bowl." No mention what that money was spent on.
And finally, this nugget: "Committee officials also say the city has fixed the Pan Am Garage which has been plagued by structural and water issues." I recall news accounts of the Department of Code Enforcement closing parts of the underground garage at Pan Am Plaza until repairs could be made. I thought that the garage was owned by someone other than the City and our MDC gave Pan Am Plaza to the Indiana Sports Corporation years ago now. I certainly hope that the implication that the City paid to fix the garage and shore up the Plaza is erroneous.
The two stories on the costs and revenues of the CIB have overlapping figures.
NET - CIB
The CIB will lose $810,000
EXPENSES - CIB
$4 m to the City to pay for police overtime
$2 m for CIB employee overtime and temp hires
$794,000 paid to State to be applied toward stadium and convention center debt
REVENUES - CIB
$2.4 m hotel tax from visitors - not NFL employees
$440,000 food and beverage taxes - but none from LOS or ICC
$100,000 car rental tax - but none from NFL employees
(figures above are from IBJ and total $2.94 m - Star reports total estimate of $3.1 m from these taxes)
$4.1 m from NFL for labor costs due to Super Bowl events
EXEMPTIONS FOR NFL
hotel tax
restaurant tax
fuel tax
car rental tax
admissions tax
Star reports that "State lawmakers exempted the NFL and its affiliates from paying nearly all state and local taxes in connection with the Super Bowl".
LOST REVENUES - CIB
The NFL will get the food and beverage tax revenue for concessions sold inside LOS and ICC, instead of that money flowing to the CIB.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
between $150 m and $300 m in direct spending by visitors
NOT REPORTED
NFL gets proceeds from parking lots owned and operated by State and Local government entities - the full extent of this agreement has not yet been divulged
DPW, DCE, IMPD, IFD real costs associated with events - IMPD already spent at least $500,000 in 2011 in preparations and the City already spent $600,000 to provide free Wi-Fi in the mile square
Income lost to taxpayers in City's Georgia Street giveaway to Indianapolis Downtown Inc., not to mention loss of that entire asset which just saw $12 m taxpayer renovation (bipartisan vote of Council, by the way)
Cost to Indy-Go for free bus service for visitors
Articles of interest used for this blog entry in the order I received the links from alert readers:
Scott Olson, IBJ, 1-16-12 -- "CIB expects to lose money during Super Bowl"
Jon Murray, IndyStar, 1-17-12 -- "Super Bowl 2012 will drop Capital Improvement Board for a loss"
Mike Corbin, WIBC, 12-21-11 -- "Super Bowl Host Committee Releases Final Numbers"
Let's start with the last one and the claims of the Host Committee CEO, Mark Miles.
He claims that the "they've raised and are investing $154 million for some 250 housing units as part of the Super Bowl Legacy Project." Well, as I recall, federal funds coming to the City were the bulk of the money being invested in the near eastside neighborhood. Those funds were augmented by the NFL, but a clear accounting of the exact dollar amounts supplied by taxpayers but not credited to them has not been forthcoming. From what I have heard, the lion's share of the investment comes from the taxpayer, not the host committee or the NFL, yet they are the ones getting nearly all the credit.
Also claimed is that the Host Committee "has also raised close to $27 million, surpassing the $25 million goal needed to host the 2012 Super Bowl." No mention what that money was spent on.
And finally, this nugget: "Committee officials also say the city has fixed the Pan Am Garage which has been plagued by structural and water issues." I recall news accounts of the Department of Code Enforcement closing parts of the underground garage at Pan Am Plaza until repairs could be made. I thought that the garage was owned by someone other than the City and our MDC gave Pan Am Plaza to the Indiana Sports Corporation years ago now. I certainly hope that the implication that the City paid to fix the garage and shore up the Plaza is erroneous.
The two stories on the costs and revenues of the CIB have overlapping figures.
NET - CIB
The CIB will lose $810,000
EXPENSES - CIB
$4 m to the City to pay for police overtime
$2 m for CIB employee overtime and temp hires
$794,000 paid to State to be applied toward stadium and convention center debt
REVENUES - CIB
$2.4 m hotel tax from visitors - not NFL employees
$440,000 food and beverage taxes - but none from LOS or ICC
$100,000 car rental tax - but none from NFL employees
(figures above are from IBJ and total $2.94 m - Star reports total estimate of $3.1 m from these taxes)
$4.1 m from NFL for labor costs due to Super Bowl events
EXEMPTIONS FOR NFL
hotel tax
restaurant tax
fuel tax
car rental tax
admissions tax
Star reports that "State lawmakers exempted the NFL and its affiliates from paying nearly all state and local taxes in connection with the Super Bowl".
LOST REVENUES - CIB
The NFL will get the food and beverage tax revenue for concessions sold inside LOS and ICC, instead of that money flowing to the CIB.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
between $150 m and $300 m in direct spending by visitors
NOT REPORTED
NFL gets proceeds from parking lots owned and operated by State and Local government entities - the full extent of this agreement has not yet been divulged
DPW, DCE, IMPD, IFD real costs associated with events - IMPD already spent at least $500,000 in 2011 in preparations and the City already spent $600,000 to provide free Wi-Fi in the mile square
Income lost to taxpayers in City's Georgia Street giveaway to Indianapolis Downtown Inc., not to mention loss of that entire asset which just saw $12 m taxpayer renovation (bipartisan vote of Council, by the way)
Cost to Indy-Go for free bus service for visitors
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
CIB/NFL Agreement for Use of Indiana Convention Center
I have now been sent the signed agreement between the Capital Improvement Board and the National Football League for the use of the Indiana Convention Center and two surface parking lots abutting the south end of the ICC. I have uploaded it to Google Docs - click here.
Like the agreement for the use of Lucas Oil Stadium, this agreement is lengthy, running 136 pages. Unlike the LOS agreement, the ICC agreement sheds little light on the original bid by the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee (now operating as Our2012SB, Inc.). The original bid and subsequent Host Committee/NFL agreement is being deliberately held from public view, as are the cost to Indianapolis for Police and Fire services, snow removal preparations, and code enforcement/court enforcement activities during the Super Bowl season.
As you might guess, the ICC, with some exceptions for offices used by tenant organizations and CIB operations, is being provided to the NFL FREE OF CHARGE from 8 am January 18 through 5 pm February 11, 2012 (p 2 of the pdf). There is one carve out in that the Sagamore Ballroom lease is up at 12:01 am February 11. I believe the County Democratic Party Slating Convention is scheduled on that day.
NFL use of the two parking lots began at 12:01 am January 9 and will extend through 11:59 pm February 17, 2012. They get the use of these parking lots "rent free for construction and preparatory activities for the NFL Events, conducting NFL Events and for dismantling of construction and equipment after the NFL Events" (p 2 of the pdf). Revenues from the parking facilities will go entirely to the NFL (p 22 of the pdf).
There are expenses that will be the responsibility of the NFL incurred from their free use of the grounds of LOS and ICC. I'll go into those in a future post.
Back to the use of Indy's Code Enforcement Officers to police infraction of NFL copyrights, we have this section of the ICC agreement (p 125 of the pdf):
That is again reference to the Clean Zone, establishment of which was enabled through the Super Bowl Ordinance. No accounting for the number of man hours our Code Enforcement Inspectors will be away from their usual jobs in our neighborhoods, nor the extra costs for 24-7 patrolling of the Clean Zone, nor the cost for having the Environmental Court Judge on call 24-7 to man the rocket docket to mete out on the spot justice, has been made available to Indianapolis taxpayers, who are on the hook for the expense. There are other costs to our City that remain unreported to the community who will be required to cover the expenses. That is not right.
Like the agreement for the use of Lucas Oil Stadium, this agreement is lengthy, running 136 pages. Unlike the LOS agreement, the ICC agreement sheds little light on the original bid by the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee (now operating as Our2012SB, Inc.). The original bid and subsequent Host Committee/NFL agreement is being deliberately held from public view, as are the cost to Indianapolis for Police and Fire services, snow removal preparations, and code enforcement/court enforcement activities during the Super Bowl season.
As you might guess, the ICC, with some exceptions for offices used by tenant organizations and CIB operations, is being provided to the NFL FREE OF CHARGE from 8 am January 18 through 5 pm February 11, 2012 (p 2 of the pdf). There is one carve out in that the Sagamore Ballroom lease is up at 12:01 am February 11. I believe the County Democratic Party Slating Convention is scheduled on that day.
NFL use of the two parking lots began at 12:01 am January 9 and will extend through 11:59 pm February 17, 2012. They get the use of these parking lots "rent free for construction and preparatory activities for the NFL Events, conducting NFL Events and for dismantling of construction and equipment after the NFL Events" (p 2 of the pdf). Revenues from the parking facilities will go entirely to the NFL (p 22 of the pdf).
There are expenses that will be the responsibility of the NFL incurred from their free use of the grounds of LOS and ICC. I'll go into those in a future post.
Back to the use of Indy's Code Enforcement Officers to police infraction of NFL copyrights, we have this section of the ICC agreement (p 125 of the pdf):
4. Licensor [CIB] shall use its reasonable commercial efforts to prevent the unauthorized sale of such merchandise [Super Bowl and NFL-related merchandise and novelty items], including scorecards, line ups or newspaper inserts with line ups and roster, depth charts or similar items relating to the participating teams in the Super Bowl Game within the Licensed Premises. In accordance with the terms of the Host Committee Agreement, the Host Committee shall use its reasonable efforts to request that the City enforce the prohibition during the NFL Events of all temporary vendor licensing authorized by local governmental authorities for the area within a one mile radius of the ICC property boundaries.
That is again reference to the Clean Zone, establishment of which was enabled through the Super Bowl Ordinance. No accounting for the number of man hours our Code Enforcement Inspectors will be away from their usual jobs in our neighborhoods, nor the extra costs for 24-7 patrolling of the Clean Zone, nor the cost for having the Environmental Court Judge on call 24-7 to man the rocket docket to mete out on the spot justice, has been made available to Indianapolis taxpayers, who are on the hook for the expense. There are other costs to our City that remain unreported to the community who will be required to cover the expenses. That is not right.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
CIB and NFL Sign Lucas Oil Stadium Agreement For Super Bowl Season
On December 30, 2011, the Capital Improvements Board and the National Football League signed off on their formal agreement regarding use of Lucas Oil Stadium for the 2012 Super Bowl.
I was provided a copy of that agreement in response to an open records request of the CIB. I have posted the agreement on google docs and it can be reviewed here.
This is a lengthy document and it is going to take me a lot longer to absorb its contents and portents. What did catch my eye, though, was the light it manages to shed on the original bid by the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee and the NFL. The Host Committee was set up, I am firmly convinced, to act a shell to protect the deal from the prying eyes of the taxpaying public. They have continued to operate as they see fit, while holding to themselves all of those pesky details, like how much the taxpayers have been put on the hook. The Host Committee called the shots on the Super Bowl ordinance that will serve to protect the NFL copyrights, and to give one person sole power to waive a number of our zoning laws that otherwise require a public hearing on a variance petition.
The CIB/NFL agreement is, to my reading of it, not the entire agreement between the City or State with the NFL, but revolves exclusively around the LOS environment. However, the agreement does capture some of the original NFL minimum specifications for bidding Host Committees, some of the original bid offered by the Indy Host Committee, and from time to time the document's wording allude to other promises made, but not fully fleshed out in the CIB/NFL agreement.
Before I launch into those items I see from the original bid, let me also note that this agreement does not tell us if these items have been eliminated from final agreements with the Host Committee, or if they are not pertinent to the CIB and LOS and survive in another form with another NFL agreement. It is clear that some parts of the original bid are not included for reference in the appendix containing the bulk of the information about the original bid. For instance, there is reference on page 64 of the pdf to a section of the bid documents entitled "Government Guarantees". As you can imagine, I have scoured the entire 176 pages for that section. It is not included.
So, here is a litany of items that caught my eye regarding what sorts of things the Host Committee offered.
All ticket revenues go to the NFL, who also get to set ticket prices. "All Super Bowl and Super Bowl-related event tickets will be exempt from sales, amusement, or entertainment taxes, and other surcharge obligations." (p 64)
The Host Committee may purchase 750 tickets, but cannot resell them for more than face value.
85% of all suites have been turned over to the NFL. (p 67) The NFL will have exclusive use of all club seats. (p 64)
"Per the Host Committee Agreement, police and fire services will be provided at no expense to NFL or Licensor [the CIB]. Licensor and NFL acknowledge and agree that per the Host Committee Agreement neither party shall be responsible for the costs and expenses, if any, related to police and fire services for Super Bowl Events in accordance with the above-referenced Security Plan." (p 13)
Parking is strikingly incomplete in this document. There is reference in the original specifications for bidders that the NFL required at least 35,000 parking spaces within one mile of LOS, provided free of charge. The Host Committee bid wording suggests that it will meet the requirements, but seem to say that all of the spaces will not be within the mile perimeter requested. They also make the argument that due to the hotels being connected by enclosed corridor to LOS, about 14,000 "of the NFL's most important guests may not require parking." (pp 55 & 60)
Page 68 of the pdf has a number of offerings by the Host Committee, including a "fully funded $25 million budget", hosting for the NFL a party for 3,000 members of the media, and "providing key cards branded with the Super Bowl logo for all downtown hotel properties and team hotels."
This is one of the sections of the bid that have been crossed out. At a minimum that means it is not included as part of the CIB/NFL agreement - not that it has been removed from the Host Committee agreement with the NFL.
Page 158 of the pdf also has a couple of interesting allusions to the Host Committee Agreement. In item 1 it says "In accordance with the terms of the Host Committee Agreement, the Host Committee shall make available to NFL at no charge up to 24,000 sq. ft. of storage space in tents outside the Stadium". And, item 4 says "In accordance with the terms of the Host Committee Agreement, the Host Committee shall use its reasonable efforts to request the City enforce the prohibition during the Super Bowl Game and the Super Bowl Events of all temporary vendor licensing authorized by local governmental authorities for the area within one mile radius of the Stadium property boundaries." That would be the Super Bowl ordinance provisions for Clean Zones and the anticipated 'rocket docket'. The rocket docket will have a Superior Court Judge on call 24 hours a day to deal with those cited by the City's code enforcement and police officers for violating the Super Bowl ordinance.
There is much more in this agreement, but it will take time to digest and report on it all. Meanwhile, have a look for yourself. The public has been kept in the dark as to the costs to our tax coffers for all of this. I'll just remind everyone that the 2012 budget required a $40 million cash infusion from the Consolidated Downtown TIF district in order to be balanced. Word is that the hole will be even bigger for the 2013 budget, but all the slush funds will have been drained by then. So, enjoy the party - its going to be one doozie of a hangover.
I was provided a copy of that agreement in response to an open records request of the CIB. I have posted the agreement on google docs and it can be reviewed here.
This is a lengthy document and it is going to take me a lot longer to absorb its contents and portents. What did catch my eye, though, was the light it manages to shed on the original bid by the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee and the NFL. The Host Committee was set up, I am firmly convinced, to act a shell to protect the deal from the prying eyes of the taxpaying public. They have continued to operate as they see fit, while holding to themselves all of those pesky details, like how much the taxpayers have been put on the hook. The Host Committee called the shots on the Super Bowl ordinance that will serve to protect the NFL copyrights, and to give one person sole power to waive a number of our zoning laws that otherwise require a public hearing on a variance petition.
The CIB/NFL agreement is, to my reading of it, not the entire agreement between the City or State with the NFL, but revolves exclusively around the LOS environment. However, the agreement does capture some of the original NFL minimum specifications for bidding Host Committees, some of the original bid offered by the Indy Host Committee, and from time to time the document's wording allude to other promises made, but not fully fleshed out in the CIB/NFL agreement.
Before I launch into those items I see from the original bid, let me also note that this agreement does not tell us if these items have been eliminated from final agreements with the Host Committee, or if they are not pertinent to the CIB and LOS and survive in another form with another NFL agreement. It is clear that some parts of the original bid are not included for reference in the appendix containing the bulk of the information about the original bid. For instance, there is reference on page 64 of the pdf to a section of the bid documents entitled "Government Guarantees". As you can imagine, I have scoured the entire 176 pages for that section. It is not included.
So, here is a litany of items that caught my eye regarding what sorts of things the Host Committee offered.
All ticket revenues go to the NFL, who also get to set ticket prices. "All Super Bowl and Super Bowl-related event tickets will be exempt from sales, amusement, or entertainment taxes, and other surcharge obligations." (p 64)
The Host Committee may purchase 750 tickets, but cannot resell them for more than face value.
85% of all suites have been turned over to the NFL. (p 67) The NFL will have exclusive use of all club seats. (p 64)
"Per the Host Committee Agreement, police and fire services will be provided at no expense to NFL or Licensor [the CIB]. Licensor and NFL acknowledge and agree that per the Host Committee Agreement neither party shall be responsible for the costs and expenses, if any, related to police and fire services for Super Bowl Events in accordance with the above-referenced Security Plan." (p 13)
Parking is strikingly incomplete in this document. There is reference in the original specifications for bidders that the NFL required at least 35,000 parking spaces within one mile of LOS, provided free of charge. The Host Committee bid wording suggests that it will meet the requirements, but seem to say that all of the spaces will not be within the mile perimeter requested. They also make the argument that due to the hotels being connected by enclosed corridor to LOS, about 14,000 "of the NFL's most important guests may not require parking." (pp 55 & 60)
Page 68 of the pdf has a number of offerings by the Host Committee, including a "fully funded $25 million budget", hosting for the NFL a party for 3,000 members of the media, and "providing key cards branded with the Super Bowl logo for all downtown hotel properties and team hotels."
This is one of the sections of the bid that have been crossed out. At a minimum that means it is not included as part of the CIB/NFL agreement - not that it has been removed from the Host Committee agreement with the NFL.
Page 158 of the pdf also has a couple of interesting allusions to the Host Committee Agreement. In item 1 it says "In accordance with the terms of the Host Committee Agreement, the Host Committee shall make available to NFL at no charge up to 24,000 sq. ft. of storage space in tents outside the Stadium". And, item 4 says "In accordance with the terms of the Host Committee Agreement, the Host Committee shall use its reasonable efforts to request the City enforce the prohibition during the Super Bowl Game and the Super Bowl Events of all temporary vendor licensing authorized by local governmental authorities for the area within one mile radius of the Stadium property boundaries." That would be the Super Bowl ordinance provisions for Clean Zones and the anticipated 'rocket docket'. The rocket docket will have a Superior Court Judge on call 24 hours a day to deal with those cited by the City's code enforcement and police officers for violating the Super Bowl ordinance.
There is much more in this agreement, but it will take time to digest and report on it all. Meanwhile, have a look for yourself. The public has been kept in the dark as to the costs to our tax coffers for all of this. I'll just remind everyone that the 2012 budget required a $40 million cash infusion from the Consolidated Downtown TIF district in order to be balanced. Word is that the hole will be even bigger for the 2013 budget, but all the slush funds will have been drained by then. So, enjoy the party - its going to be one doozie of a hangover.
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