The details in this blog post are sketchy at best. This morning, a man called the newspaper and identified himself as being charged with coordinating the concerts in Congress Park. (I'm withholding his name.) He spoke to one of our editors, and was asking a lot about the city's $4 million surplus, which we reported last month.

Finally, the editor asked why he wanted to know, and he told us that the city was either with holding, not providing, didn't have, or in some other way wouldn't supply (I told you details were sketchy) $7,800 needed to pay for the summer concert series.

I was out of the office when the call came in, so the editor took a message, and left me a note. Efforts to contact this person via phone and email to ascertain further details about the funds went unanswered. So I called the visitor center, which oversees the concerts. The woman at the desk differed comment to Deputy Mayor Shauna Sutton.

When I got Sutton on the phone, her remark was "I"m not going to have this conversation with you." OK...

Thing is, if she'd said "There's no problem, we just changed the program," or some such similar thing, I probably would have believed her, especially since I couldn't get in touch with the original caller, but now it seems like something else is afoot.

However, there are some concerts scheduled for Congress Park this summer, so it seems that the series is planned. Of course, that doesn't mean it will happen as planned. I suppose we'll see what develops.