{"id":12032,"date":"2015-02-13T01:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:17:38","slug":"numberscentral-the-nascar-hall-of-fame-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/13\/numberscentral-the-nascar-hall-of-fame-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"NumbersCentral: The NASCAR Hall of Fame Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lots of assumptions made and stories spread about how much the City of Danville spent on a trip to Charlotte NC. This was for Wendell Scott&#8217;s induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Let&#8217;s squash off all of the assumptions and stories by doing a NumbersCentral review on the trip expenses and take a look at the advertisement that the city ran in the official program for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the itemized expenses.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/255629305\/content?start_page=1&view_mode&access_key=key-anlbdny9mj8oybtzhmSP\"  data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_255629305\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t<div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;width:100%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/255629305\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">View this document on Scribd<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s take a look at that display ad in the official program&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/LdA2lIO.jpg?resize=611%2C793\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"793\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The money for this trip was already allocated in the economic development department&#8217;s budget. Promoting Danville is a valid and reasonable part of economic development. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get some howls of protest over that statement, but it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>And there you go. Now you know what was spent and where it went. We&#8217;ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lots of assumptions made and stories spread about how much the City of Danville spent on a trip to Charlotte NC. This was for Wendell Scott&#8217;s induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. 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