Monday's City Council meeting agenda includes correspondence from the mayor regarding numerous appointments, but it remains to be seen whether they get to the point of action at the regular meeting on Dec. 8.
The same roster of names was presented in August, but no action was taken. The idea then in switching terms around seemed to be to give Malcolm Dunn and Cecil Sanders the two longest terms and to get rid of Commissioner Harold Mitchell in favor of mayoral gal pal Barbara James. See post here.
Bloggers will have to wait until tomorrow to see the council packet, if it is available at the library, to see whether the same pattern is evident, as the mayor's correspondence has no details.
--Bernice
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It may be of note the nominations are received as "communications from the mayor" but are not part of the lettered portion of the agenda. Maybe the Council is finally wise to this bunch's shenanigans and abuse. There is more than adequate legal basis to remove each of the sitting commissioners, and this is something the City Council should have done all along, what with many $100,000s in illegal compensation and ongoing contract fraud. A RICO and securities fraud prosecution might be more to the point than these renominations.
ReplyDeletePMUA should be a priority for the new administration. The City ought to be paying its fair share of common costs, if only to give taxpayers a tax break on their state and federal returns. Maybe then the city would have an incentive to give a damn for the first time about what the hell is going on and what the real costs have been.
One of Mayor-elect Mapp's first orders of business, and the City Council's, should be to replace the three holdovers on the Board with accountable and honest individuals. Dunn's term is up Feb. 1, and he goes along with PMUA's lawyers and auditors. Sanders, who is complicit in several ethics violations, including the Leland demolition contract and the recent HAP real estate deal, along with the $1 million settlement, and doing nothing as PMUA pays out its illegal compensation, should then face the music of a proper hearing. With a new Board, Executive Director Williamson's days are numbered too.
It may sound vindictive, but it's all well-deserved. PMUA has cost city residents millions. Most vindictive of all though is Sharon's batch of nominations. How can someone be all thumbs and all middle fingers at the same time?