01/09/2025
Please continue to write your letters and make calls to city hall and make your voices be heard. Show up to the next meeting. We need the support of our drivers, fans, and sponsors to show how much this track means not only to those who are involved within the track but also within the community.
Much LOVE and a big THANK YOU to everyone who showed up at the City Hall meeting last night! We are so grateful for all your support and a special thanks to everyone who spoke in favor of keeping the track open and us continuing to run it.
At the meeting, City Manager, Tom Ivester, tried to float his fourth, new excuse to justify why he illegally locked us out of the property. His first three excuses were easily disproven over the last 60 days, so this time, he got the new city attorney to say that our 2024 contract extension had needed to be negotiated by Dec 1, 2023. There is a paragraph that says that in the contracts. But Ivester “forgot” to mention that he superseded that clause at a meeting on April 10, 2024, when he acknowledged that he knew our 2024 schedule had been out for months, negotiated with us and promised to get us a new contract once we met his conditions (pay two bills) and then allowed us to operate for 7 months without even a phone call from him.
First of all, it is his job to produce the contracts, not ours. Second, he didn’t address why he’s failed to fulfill ANY of the contracts’ obligations since 2022, most importantly, the numerous safety issues we’d been begging to get fixed. At that April 2024 meeting, we brought up the kart track and other unfulfilled contract issues, presented Mr. Ivester a detailed materials list and even offered to provide free labor to repair the bleachers to code if he would just buy the lumber and fasteners. He never did anything about our safety concerns.
All we’ve ever asked for is what was promised to us since 2022 and repeatedly approved by the city commissioners! It’s laughable how Ivester keeps trying to blame us for little technicalities while we had track lights going out mid-race and fans falling through broken bleachers because he refused to even bring the property up to state code.
Ivester just keeps trying his lawyer tricks to cover his ass, but the TRUTH will continue to expose him for what he is. Hopefully, the City Commissioners will see through his nonsense and we can move forward with our 2025 season! Stay tuned! ~ Rod & Joe