Jefferson Hills Council to pay back $5000 each for business manager blunder?
Whitehall council members to pay $9,000 each to borough
Friday, May 09, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A judge this week ruled that Whitehall council members each must pay a nearly $9,000 surcharge to reimburse the borough as a result of a 2003 legal dispute over the awarding of three construction jobs in the borough.
According to the above article, the judge found that council irresponsibly cost the borough thousands of dollars and had to repay the difference to the amount of close to $9000 each. Now that such a precedent has been set, I was wondering if anybody knew whether we could hold Jefferson Hills council accountable for costing the borough $25,000 irresponsibly. Council voted 5-2 to replace business manager John Shepherd with Doug Arndt and to pay John Shepherd $25,000 for leaving. Does anyone know if we could get lawsuit together and try to get the five council members who thought this was a good idea to pay back $5,000 each to cover this outrageous pricetag billed to our local taxpayers? Specifically, that would be $5,000 charged to ring leader Chris King, Jan Cmar, Tracy Khalil, Kathleen Reynolds, and James Weber. If you ask me, they would be getting off easy because that wouldn't include four more months of salary, benefits, and unemployment that the tax payers are swallowing.
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With lil Chrissy's "vision" leadin the way
The boro of Jefferson is sadly gone astray
As people stop and wonder what has happened to our town
We're goin down the tubes with Mamma dearest and her clowns.
Maybe Bonnie Brimmeier would represent the citizens. She only charges $85/hour, as opposed to the $125 hourly rate they currently pay to Adams for all of the exclusionary ordinances, "confidentiality" agreements, termination agreements, and new borough manager agreements recently mandated by this disfunctional group of five.
Better yet, her office attended EDC and other commission meetings at no charge to the borough, and she did the legal work for TJ Youth football's field project also at no charge.
Maybe she would represent the citizens for free!
Not personalties but institutional relationships are most of the political problem in Jefferson Hills and similar communities. I have been victimized for three decades by a monopolistic conspiracy of massive fraud indulged upon by what was once the world's most powerful corporation, the AT&T/Bell system. A centralized warehousing complex was created here to handle their regional needs. Into these warehouses, new telecommunications equipment was hauled in only to be routinely destroyed for the purpose of unlawfully manipulating the rates chargeable by utility companies to their customers. When I saw this fraud, I blew the whistle. But as a result, I have been subjected to litigation involving my lands, business and even person. One of the byproducts of my whistleblowing has been the pecular history of assessment activity upon my parcels at the USI Industrial Park here on Wall Road in Jefferson Hills. You can read about my principal resistence to all of this in my declaratory judgment action Gagliardi v. County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills and School District of West Jefferson Hills, GD 03-003504 which can be instantly viewed from the Allegheny County Department of Court Records website. There you will find a treasure cove of valuable documentation depicting the deceptive business practices of both the Borough and the companies from the private tax collection industry that have grown up around the marketing of delinquent tax accounts. Read and enjoy.