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POOP N SCOOP
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 Posted - 02/15/2007 : 3:14:58 PM
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ok sports fans big news today ,,seems his dishonorable john has ivited most of our common council members to a 5.30 pm meeting at city hall what do ya think talk about the audit or how his own name was removed stay tuned,,, scoopie
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 3:48:42 PM
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| A meeting with the Mayor of most of the members of the Common Council could be construed as a violation of the open meeting laws, I would imagine . . . |
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H1ghCh4r1ty
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 4:21:57 PM
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Yes it is Citizen.
Removing the name refers to Hanlon's name in the audit as keeping his notary fees while conducting notary and justice of the peace business on city time. If he collected his fees on his own time, no problem. But, he collected his fees while on the clock as city clerk. In my humble opinion, he should not have charged any fees at all.
I'm sure the audit picked up on that, and now it's damage control time.
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massdee
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 4:34:06 PM
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| Is this going to end up being a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face? He wouldn't dare violate the open meeting law, would he? Or did her forget he accused the City Council of doing that very same thing and then Hanlon lied about talking to the District Attorney. |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 5:02:33 PM
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| If I remember correctly from last Monday nights Aldermen meeting, the mayor was meeting with the company that did the audit today. He wanted clarification on the things us dumb people wouldn't understand. Does anyone else remember this? |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 7:17:20 PM
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| Anyone hear anything about that 5:30 meeting yet? |
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NSS
Member
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 7:59:08 PM
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| I'm told the meeting was on the sale of some city property possibly the old GE site but also a few of the members let it be known how shi-ty the city services did in this storm which of course upset the powers to be seems they DID NOT bring in any outside contractors for help this time so to save money we suffer now at the next budget city services can say opps we turned back xyz amount unused funds to be spent on some other foolish thing that ONLY the mayor himself can understand i don't know about all of you but me I've had it |
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Masterful1
Senior Member
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 8:01:07 PM
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| Eagle with walker says "do as I say kids, not as I do". Where is the meeting being held? Pitiful Hall in the big room? Will it be a live exec session or will it be memorex? |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/15/2007 : 8:54:17 PM
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From The Mirror
MEETING AT CITY HALL ALL OF THE CITY SERVICES PEOPLE CALLED IN SICK TODAY THAT WERE RAGUCCI SUPPORTS NOW I KNOW WHY NOTHING GOT DONE. WAIT TILL TOMORROW MELTS, FREEZES, WHAT WILL THIS CITY DO
MIKE
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justme
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Posted - 02/16/2007 : 05:33:11 AM
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massdee, you need to remember that the Mirror is full of trash and think it through a bit..........
From the standpoint of a City Services worker: SNOW = OVERTIME = BIGGER PAYCHECK. Why would they shoot themselves in the foot like that? I'm sure they can find better ways to get back at Hanlon (although I think the theory itself is bulls**t) that won't affect them (personally) quite as much. |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/16/2007 : 10:10:39 AM
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I know that site is mostly a bunch of crap, but I found that little post interesting only because Scoop had said there was going to be a meeting up city hall last night. I was just throwing another thought into the mix.
justme, you are so right about The Mirror, I've never read so much juvenile, name calling trash in my life. |
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spinncitycinn
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Posted - 02/16/2007 : 10:57:27 AM
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| i was talking to one of the workers this morning in DD on main street and asked how come the streets are in such a mess and his answer to me was that J&S does not have the correct equipment like GTA had to do the proper plowing in the city.. Take it for what is worth |
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Fran
Senior Member
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Posted - 02/16/2007 : 1:39:49 PM
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| Small world, J&S' Dad works in code enforcement. |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 09:52:33 AM
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From the other blog
NOT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT BUT ON THE OTHER WEB SITE AVERAGE CIT THEY SAY J&S DID DO A LOUSY JOB PLOWING HIS DAD DID JUST GET HIRED FOR CODE ENF. I KNOW THEM HIS WIFE ALSO GOT HIRED IN REG OF VOTERS, NOW LET'S SEE SHEEHAN'S DAUGHTER, CITY CLERKS SON, VETRANO'S AND HER COUSIN, ANN LACONTE AND HER SISTER, BOB COLASONTI AND HIS WIFE , LET ME THINK I KNOW THERES MORE, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO THE CITY CLERKS OFFICE AND YOU'LL FIND OUT ALL THE LAST NAMES ARE THE SAME UNREAL THEY SAY RAGU HIRED ALL OF HIS REALTIVES WHAT'S THE DIF NEPATISM, IS UP THERE TO AND I DIDN'T EVEN VOTE FOR RAG. JUST MAKING A STATEMENT. TOM
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 10:14:37 AM
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Hanlon's problem isn't nepotism and political patronage -- it's that he promised he wouldn't engage in nepotism and political patronage. It was a foolish thing to say -- because most people realize that "political patronage" is part of the political landscape, and what we hope for is that those receiving the patronage are also qualified to do the jobs they're hired to do. So Hanlon has two strikes against him in this area -- he broke a promise that he should never have made, and he's hired people who, the evidence would seem to show, are less than qualified to be doing the job they were hired to do.
It's going to be interesting to see how Hanlon plans to try to overcome all these strikes against him. He's heading into the bottom of the 9th inning of his first term, and he has a lot of ground to make up. I just don't think he has the team to do it. |
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massdee
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 2:06:05 PM
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| If his team gets motorized walkers they might have a chance, it all "Depends" if the batteries on their pace makers die or not. |
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