COME TO THE COURTHOUSE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21,
2011
At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the 21st day of
December, the Honorable Scioto
County
Common Pleas Court Judge William T. Marshall will
announce his decision to the petition from City Solicitor Mike Jones to
allow City Auditor Trent Williams to take money from funds designated for maintenance of
streets, alleys, water supply, sewers, buildings and floodwall and transfer these funds to the
now overspent, deficit General Fund.
There is no financial emergency.
There is enough money in the City Treasury to pay all bills
and payroll for the rest of the year.
What is the alleged emergency? It is a 12% pay raise for City
Fireman.
This is to be a special “Happy New Year’s” Day announcement
to citizens from our appointed Mayor David Malone in January. You all can remember Mayor
Malone, the man who raised your water bills 18% as soon as he was appointed
Mayor in December a year ago.
Mayor Malone, at the same time, did lower the water rates on big
time, wealthy water users.
Mayor Malone
may raise your bills another 18% to pay for more raises
or more city hall office employees.
Inside sources at
City Hall tell us that the “powers that be” in control of City Hall are
needful of this extra money to provide a 12% increase in pay for the
City Fire Department employees.
Secret talks with Mayor David Malone, Malone’s special
negotiators, and the Firemen’s Union have been going on for more than two months. Malone likes to operate behind closed doors
with your money in his affairs.
Written by Austin Leedom, Tuesday, December 20,
2011
BIG MONEY HEARING TODAY for the City of
Portsmouth
CITIZENS: IT IS YOUR MONEY – COME TO THE
COMMON PLEAS
COURT OF JUDGE WILLIAM T. MARSHALL AT 9:30 THURSDAY, DECEMBER
01,
2011 CITY
AUDITOR WANTS TO MAKE UNUSUAL MOVE OF YOUR MONEY
AND NEEDS PERMISSION OF THE
COURT.
IN THE MATTER OF:
APPLICATION OF THE CITY OF
PORTSMOUTH,OHIO, TO TRANSFER
UNENCUMBERED CIP FUNDS INTO
GENERAL FUND
CASE NUMBER 11 CIH 299
FILED WITH THE SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO CLERK OF COURTS
LISA D. WHITE, ON NOVEMBER, 18, 2011 BY MICHAEL
JONES,
CITY SOLICITOR, PORTSMOUTH, OHIO
HEARING TO BE HELD IN COMMON PLEAS COURT AT 9:30 A. M. ,
Thursday,
December 01,
2011 BEFORE THE HONORABLE JUDGE WILLIAM T. MARSHALL.
Will the Common Pleas Judge give City Auditor Trent Williams,
Mayor
David A. Malone and the City Council special permission to
continue making
another of their funny-money moves with the city finances
that have brought
the City of Portsmouth to the edge of fiscal
disaster?
Is this motion by Solicitor Mike Jones for court approval of
moving money,
from one fund to another fund improperly, only a showcase
publicity motion by
Solicitor Jones ?
After all, moving the money does not increase the value;
it merely places the money in a position to be spent where it
was never
legally intended to be spent.
The movement of money from one fund to another, that the City
Attorney is
now asking permission for, has been done over and over, year
after year.
This improper practice has been called to the attention of
the Portsmouth City
Government officials for several years.
The city officials have done nothing for years to correct
their actions; but now
the heat is on due to the publicity about the appearance of
the State Auditor
Yost here on the 22nd of November to take a good
look at City Auditor
Melvin Trent Williams, and explain the law to our Auditor,
and give Williams
Sixty Days to put his office in shape.
Things are changing;
now the City is asking court permission to do something
Trent Williams would have done without thought if no one were
watching.
PORTSMOUTH CITY OFFICIALS FOR YEARS HAVE
IGNORED THE STATE AUDITOR AND LAUGHED AT
THE
State Auditor's FINDINGS AND REPORTS
The Ohio State Auditor was a laughing stock for City Auditor
Trent Williams who
not only ignored the State Auditors instructions, but laughed
at the possibility
that the State Auditor had any real authority to give City
Auditor Trent Williams
any directions or instruction.
Auditor Williams’ once close associate, former City Council
President
Howard Baughman laughed at findings against the City Auditor
in the yearly reports.
(Ex-)Council
President Howard Baughman, before citizens removed him from
office, once laughed at the thought of any power by the State
Auditor. and said,
“It’s our money, we can spend it any way we want to. What is
the State Auditor
going to do to us?
Send us another letter?"
Citizens, come to the hearing in the County Court House and
learn what
Judge William T. Marshall will decide. It’s your money.
by Austin
Leedom, Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Solicitor Jones has answer to Sewer
flooding: See Randy Duncan
interviews by
RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY TODAY IN PORTSMOUTH
DAILY TIMES ---City Solicitor Mike
Jones--First thing to do is hire
an expensive
specialty lawyer to fight Federal
EPA
Austin Leedom Tuesday, 19 July
2011
Stand up; Speak up against local Council mob dictatorship
that is trying
to
take total control of all the city funds and give council the power to
appoint the Mayor, The Auditor and the Solicitor.
Offices
will be filled by appointments by the four councilmen. The Mayor, the
Auditor, the Solicitor can be fired at any time by the
council.
Under
the City Manager Plan the controlling FOUR COUNCIL MEN ,will have complete
power and control of all the offices and over all the employees of the
city.
THE
FOUR COUNCIL MEN also will have total power over the spending of tens of
millions of city funds, (your dollars) every
year.
The
FOUR COUNCIL MEN will have the keys to the cash strong-boxes and will have
the combination to
the city vault.
This
situation could well be a grand invitation to an immense looting of public
funds that may be even be even greater than we suffered before in dealing
with the C.Clayton
Johnson/SOGP/Richard D. Martings Foundation.
Citizens
will have no vote as there will be no elections for these offices.
All
three of these present office holders (Mayor David Malone, Auditor
Trent
Williams and Solicitor Mike Jones) have already
shown
displeasure with the City Council Gang’s take-over plans.
The
City Solicitor proposed amendments to the Council Gang’s Take-over
Ordinance so his office and the office of the Auditor will not be affected
by the Council’s
Dictatorship plans.
I
did not hear Solicitor Jones mention an amendment to spare our
dark-skinned African-American Mayor David Malone the same fate he, as
Solicitor, and Trent Williams, as Auditor, are fighting to
avoid.
Please, Solicitor Mike, do not turn your back on your fellow
city official ; “love thy neighbor as
thyself.”
David Malone is an American; he is a citizen and under the
United States Constitution he has the right not be discriminated
against. Solicitor Jones,
please do yourself a big favor and treat Mr. Malone as you have treated
Trent Williams and yourself.
Racial discrimination does not look good on a United States
Navy Officer. When you ran
for office of Solicitor in 2007 you used your military service record to
attract votes from patriotic citizens who rightfully expected you to
behave as an Officer and a Gentleman. What you do here as a private
person or as a public official can and will reflect on the honor of the
United States Navy.
Also, Sir, any unpatriotic, improper, discriminating,
ungentlemanly, abusive actions you commit here under cover of your status,
can and will be reported by me directly to the IG of the DoD who can and
will send my requests down the line to the IG of the Navy. We receive quick answers from the
Navy.
Please, Solicitor Mike Jones, do not consider this message as a
threat. No harm is
intentioned or planned against you; this is only a promise that I (we)
will not be discriminated against, abused and mistreated under cover of
illegal rules and practices.
If
City Manager Government is bad for the Solicitor and the Auditor, why is
it good for the Mayor? If the
City Manager comes into power the Auditor and Solicitor may be taken over
by the Council.
Remove anti-democracy men from council and disband out-of-date city
charter.
Stop
our creeping dictatorship by returning City Government to the Ohio Revised
Code
where
citizens have the right to vote on who is to be in power in the
city.
http://com5.runboard.com/bmoesnewsforum/ portsmouth-dailytimes.com/
STRAIGHT TALK -- "This is America."
ouncil
(Adolph took control of the government of Germany in the
early nineteen-thirties, you know "the rest of the story.")
Hitler-type takeover of government underway;
Council will continue to plot for complete
control.
Mayor Malone had not returned from the mayors' conference in
Baltimore; the councilmen
appeared not to know what they
were doing. After the regular announced meeting was
closed
at 6:23 p.m., Council President John Haas began a second
meeting and he and Nicholas Basham began working on
legislation to change the government to a City Manager
form.
This form of government would remove Mayor David Malone
from Office and one of the City Councilman would be appointed
to the position of Mayor. Citizens would lose the right
to vote for the Mayor.
About fifteen minutes into the second meeting an
elderly gentleman rose to his feet and started to
speak.
Councilman John Haas told the man he was not allowed to
speak; then a second older man also rose
and began to talk.
John Haas told the citizens
they had no right to talk in the meeting.
The citizens appealed to
Solicitor Mike Jones and John Haas hastily gaveled the meeting into adjournment.
****
Bewildered and confused Councilmen, Nicholas Basham and
John R. Haas, have had difficulty understanding how our City
Government works and are
expected to carry the ball for
First Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson who apparently believes
a change from Mayor
Form of Government to a City
Manager
Form of Government would be
good. (Good for Kevin Johnson)
When the Councilmen take David Malone out of office when
the City Manager Form of Government comes in
will Basham and Haas then appoint Kevin Johnson as the
new $59,000 a year Mayor with almost free health
insurance , an unmarked city vehicle and a no-limit
city credit card?
Remember the brutish and vile attacks John Haas and Nicholas
Basham made on Mayor Jane
Murray beginning on her first day in office.
These two sorry excuses for men needed police protection at
meetings after that first unprovoked attack on the lady
Mayor.
Many men were so angered with Haas and Basham for being
so viciously abusive to the lone, small lady Mayor that the two
bullies needed protection.
We know Haas and Basham?
Will they take David Malone out
of the Mayor's Office as
they did Jane Murray?
Will they hire ex-police
chief Tom Bihl to assist them with a recall ?
Will the Portsmouth Daily
Times run big red, glaring articles
top-center on frontpage day after day to
make David Malone look and feel bad?
Think about it; Jane Murray was different; she had to
go;she was unacceptable to the dictators
who run this city; she was a woman, and
worse than that, she was honest.
Our present Mayor David Malone is different from most of us
in only one aspect; he has a dark
skin. This city has a long sorry
record of discrimination and racism is not dead here.
Also, one councilman wants to take him out of office so he can take Malone's $59,000 a year
Mayoral position.
Is Mayor David Malone unacceptable to the evil hidden criminals
who rule this city only because he
is different from us in the color of his skin?
David Malone is not alone as the lady Mayor was. He
will have help.
David Malone is acceptable to me and mine; we shall stand with him in righteousness against the dictators who would take away his
rights and deny us justice and liberty.
As children of Our Almighty God and citizens of the United States of America we
shall fight and
win the good battle against
evil as our forefathers have in
generations past. We shall retain the precious God given rights of
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness we
were born with and inherited. Austin Leedom June 28, 2011
Where is the
money? What
happened?
By Austin Leedom 27 June 2011?
City Council meeting 6:00 P.M. tonight.with most of the
officials still trying to figure out where the money went. This is not strange for a
Portsmouth City Councilman as
most of them do not have to pay any attention to what they are doing. All they are required to do is
vote as they are instructed. This city is operated as a dictatorship, not
as a democracy. The
master-swindler C. Clayton Johnson who defrauded the city of Two Million
Dollars in the Martings Building Fraud in 2002, is the man in power of
this government. Click on City Council link
for “rest of the story.”
Clayton Johnson is also the head of the Southern Ohio Growth
Partnership, and of the Richard D. Martings Foundation, The Chamber of
Commerce plus many other corporations. Clayton Johnson gives the orders
and men he has placed on council by appointment do his bidding. Jim Kalb as Mayor did the bidding
of Clay Johnson and now Clay Johnson has his man David Malone in the
Mayor’s seat. You will see
and hear Mayor David Malone plans to move all or part of our city
Government to the Martings building.
Expect hat soon.
That is what Clay Johnson and Neal Hatcher want. They want the location we have on
the river to build a Convention Center, it is rumored.
This city operates as a criminal enterprise and Clayton
Johnson is the head thief. He
has many accomplices in places of power in the local
government.
February 23, 2009 was the date of the meeting when four
members of the City Council with encouragement from Mayor Jim Kalb,
Solicitor Mike Jones, Auditor Trent Williams voted to give all city
employees three percent raises the current year (2009) and the two next
coming years (2010 and 2011).
The four members of City Council who voted for this monstrous
deficit were David Malone, 2nd Ward, (now Mayor). John Haas, appointed 5th Ward
Councilman, Jerrold Albrecht, appointed to Council from
4th Ward, and Mike Mearan, appointed as 1st Ward
Councilman.
On this date the
Councilmen also raised the pay of the City Solicitor and the City Auditor
up to $52,200 a year. (Nice
raise for these two---when they began their campaign for election in 2007
the pay was only $40,000.00 per year each, nice raise of $12,200 a year
for each position. The Mayor
Jim Kalb also received a raise to $59,000 per year.) These salaries seem very generous
for jobs that are rated as part-time employment. These men are all elected; they
come to work in the morning if they want to, they have no boss, some weeks
they don’t need to come in at all, they have employees to take care of
most items of business.
In the February 2009 Council meeting Auditor Trent Williams
didn’t approve of the great new expenditures at first, but changed his
mind when the Councilmen approved the purchase of an unmarked SUV luxury
van for the Auditor’s personal use.
This is a nice bonus, a free luxury van with free tags, insurance,
maintenance, and all the gasoline and other expenses you want paid with a
city credit card. How good
can it get?
Trent then approved the budget which was scheduled to be over
a million dollars in deficit.
As one regular council observer said, “Trent don’t care; Trent
can’t count.”
Third Ward
Nicholas Basham and the appointed
ODOT official James Richard Saddler II now acting as Second Ward
Council are the only two city government officials that were not in the
meeting of the 23rd of February, 2009.
But Jerrold Albrecht, John R. Haas, David Malone and (Mike
Mearan of the 1sr Ward who was voted out in 2009) were at the
meeting and voted for the big spending even though they were warned
repeatedly by Councilmen Bob Mollette and Richard Noel that the City would
be unable to pay all they had promised. Noel and Mollette voted against
the massive increases in spending.
Written by
Austin Leedom on Monday 27 June 2011,
Police Chief Charles Horner and Mayor David
Malone to
Article below
is from MOE'S FORUM:
ANOTHER TAX INCREASE ATTEMPT BY THE SECRETIVE CRIMINAL
CONTROLLERS OF
THIS
CITY DICTATORSHIP IS EXPECTED. The citizens do not want more
taxes, they
want honest government,
and would like fair representation on city council, but this
will not happen under the
present City Charter. There
will be NO DEMOCRACY in Portsmouth
as long we have the City
Charter. Under the present City Charter Authority this city
is operated as a
Dictatorship by a few greedy, super-wealthy, heartless, Un-American
Gangsters. These are real gangsters,
make no mistake, they are evil and they have
controlled the prosperity,
or rather, the lack of prosperity for most of us, in this
city for several decades,
and these gangsters have become immensely rich with
improper,
criminal gains from City Treasury funds..
By various
means, including harassmenet, intimidation, violence, false
imprisonment,
outright
bribery, false promises, and hiring of family members
of councilmen to city jobs,
these
gangsters control the Mayor, the Auditor, the
Solicitor and two thirds of the
six-member
Council.
The City Council is the group that
controls the spending of money. and only four
council
members need to vote in favor of an ordinance to make it law.
Control four
of the council members and you can sell worthless old buildings to
the City when
the owners cannot sell them and they won't burn down so the owners
can collect
the insurance money. A crooked Council can, and has
bought such properties..
Also, you can
sell valuable million dollar properties to your friends for $60,000
and watch
your friends become wealthier in reselling the land in parcels
for over a
million dollars.
Control
of the Council is the key to opening the city treasury vaults to the
thieves
of the City
and also to canny visiting raiders from time to time.
A visitor to
Portsmouth brought a Deal to Town named the “ Ameresco
Project”
three years
ago. The
Council was persuaded to spend 7.5 million with Ameresco
to change out
old slow water meters to new faster, high-speed
water meters that
would cause
customers to pay higher water bills, to put in better windows, install
insulation in
many city buildings, and install new lighting that would save big
money on electric power bills.
Ameresco was paid 7.5 million with money
from a high interest loan and
we citizens
are paying off the 7.5 million by paying $900,000 a year to the bank for
ten
years. Mayor Jim Kalb and the
Council okayed this pay-off even though much of
the work was
never completed and had to be completed by city employees working
on overtime
pay. According to city workers, over five-hundred (500) new
water
meters were
left laying on the mud when Ameresco received their
loot and skipped town.
MORE NEW TAXES FOR WORKING PEOPLE?
IT IS UP TO YOU; VOTE NO IN
NOVEMBER.
POLICE CHIEF
CHARLES HORNER will be the leader of the band when the campaign
for more
taxes on the working people is proposed on the November
ballot.
Charles
Horner loves to appear in public and speak. Many find him amusing,
many find him
disgusting; most citizens won’t even listen to him.
This doesn’t
bother Mr. Horner; he loves publicity, even if it is mostly bad
publicity.
There's hope
that Police Chief Charles Horner is the cheer-leader for the next
tax increase
proposal as he was for the failed tax proposals in 2006, 2008 and
2011.
Horner
doesn't do well as a politician as too many people know him for the crimes
he has done
and for the law enforcement he has failed to do.
Chief Horner
is expected to lead this tax project this time also even though his
record so far
in these tax increase attempts is NO wins and THREE losses.
The continued
never-stop tries by City Council to overtax the citizens can only
be stopped by
city voters emoving the City Charter which permits this
present evil
Un-American
Dictatorship and proceeding to go with a
Democracy government
under the
Ohio Revised Code where citizens can, in many cases,
go directly to
the State
Offices in Columbus for direct assistance
against mistreatment,
police abuse,
discrimination, the failure of office-holders to
do their duty,
and
corruption by officials.
Throw out the Dictators.
Throw out the Charter.
Return to Democracy.
VOTE NO ON
NEW TAXES FOR THE DICTATORS OF PORTSMOUTH.
By
Austin Leedom Thursday June
09, 2011
Written by Austin Leedom 31 May 2011
FINAL VOTE
COME TO THE COURTHOUSE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the 21st day of December, the Honorable Scioto
County
Common Pleas Court Judge William T. Marshall will
announce his decision to the petition from City Solicitor Mike Jones to
allow City Auditor Trent Williams to take money from funds designated for maintenance of
streets, alleys, water supply, sewers, buildings and floodwall and transfer these funds to the
now overspent, deficit General Fund.
There is no financial emergency.
There is enough money in the City Treasury to pay all bills
and payroll for the rest of the year.
What is the alleged emergency? It is a 12% pay raise for City Fireman.
This is to be a special “Happy New Year’s” Day announcement to citizens from our appointed Mayor David Malone in January. You all can remember Mayor Malone, the man who raised your water bills 18% as soon as he was appointed Mayor in December a year ago.
Mayor Malone, at the same time, did lower the water rates on big time, wealthy water users.
Mayor Malone may raise your bills another 18% to pay for more raises or more city hall office employees.
Inside sources at City Hall tell us that the “powers that be” in control of City Hall are needful of this extra money to provide a 12% increase in pay for the City Fire Department employees.
Secret talks with Mayor David Malone, Malone’s special
negotiators, and the Firemen’s Union have been going on for more than two months. Malone likes to operate behind closed doors
with your money in his affairs.
Written by Austin Leedom, Tuesday, December 20,
2011
BIG MONEY HEARING TODAY for the City of Portsmouth
CITIZENS: IT IS YOUR MONEY – COME TO THE COMMON PLEAS
COURT OF JUDGE WILLIAM T. MARSHALL AT 9:30 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 01,
2011 CITY AUDITOR WANTS TO MAKE UNUSUAL MOVE OF YOUR MONEY
AND NEEDS PERMISSION OF THE
COURT.
IN THE MATTER OF:
APPLICATION OF THE CITY OF
PORTSMOUTH,OHIO, TO TRANSFER
UNENCUMBERED CIP FUNDS INTO
GENERAL FUND
CASE NUMBER 11 CIH 299
FILED WITH THE SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO CLERK OF COURTS
LISA D. WHITE, ON NOVEMBER, 18, 2011 BY MICHAEL
JONES,
CITY SOLICITOR, PORTSMOUTH, OHIO
HEARING TO BE HELD IN COMMON PLEAS COURT AT 9:30 A. M. , Thursday,
December 01, 2011 BEFORE THE HONORABLE JUDGE WILLIAM T. MARSHALL.
Will the Common Pleas Judge give City Auditor Trent Williams, Mayor
David A. Malone and the City Council special permission to continue making
another of their funny-money moves with the city finances that have brought
the City of Portsmouth to the edge of fiscal disaster?
Is this motion by Solicitor Mike Jones for court approval of moving money,
from one fund to another fund improperly, only a showcase publicity motion by
Solicitor Jones ? After all, moving the money does not increase the value;
it merely places the money in a position to be spent where it was never
legally intended to be spent.
The movement of money from one fund to another, that the City Attorney is
now asking permission for, has been done over and over, year after year.
This improper practice has been called to the attention of the Portsmouth City
Government officials for several years.
The city officials have done nothing for years to correct their actions; but now
the heat is on due to the publicity about the appearance of the State Auditor
Yost here on the 22nd of November to take a good look at City Auditor
Melvin Trent Williams, and explain the law to our Auditor, and give Williams
Sixty Days to put his office in shape.
Things are changing; now the City is asking court permission to do something
Trent Williams would have done without thought if no one were watching.
PORTSMOUTH CITY OFFICIALS FOR YEARS HAVE
IGNORED THE STATE AUDITOR AND LAUGHED AT
THE State Auditor's FINDINGS AND REPORTS
The Ohio State Auditor was a laughing stock for City Auditor Trent Williams who
not only ignored the State Auditors instructions, but laughed at the possibility
that the State Auditor had any real authority to give City Auditor Trent Williams
any directions or instruction.
Auditor Williams’ once close associate, former City Council President
Howard Baughman laughed at findings against the City Auditor in the yearly reports.
(Ex-)Council President Howard Baughman, before citizens removed him from
office, once laughed at the thought of any power by the State Auditor. and said,
“It’s our money, we can spend it any way we want to. What is the State Auditor
going to do to us? Send us another letter?"
Citizens, come to the hearing in the County Court House and learn what
Judge William T. Marshall will decide. It’s your money.
by Austin Leedom, Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Written by Austin Leedom 31 May 2011
WILL COUNCILMAN JOHN HAAS CUT YOUR FIRE
PROTECTION?
THIS IS AMERICA, BUT WE LIVE IN AN EVIL DICTATORSHIP HERE IN
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, VOTE RIGHT OR LOSE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FIRE HOUSE?
Tuesday , 14 June, 2011. LAST NIGHT CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT JOHN R. HAAS
MENTIONED TO SIXTH WARD COUNCILMAN RICHARD NOEL THAT THE CLOSING
OF THE SCIOTOVILLE FIRE STATION MIGHT BE ORDERED.
IS THIS A HAAS’ IDEA OF RETRIBUTION TOWARD SCIOTOVILLE CITIZENS BECAUSE
THEIR COUNCILMAN NOEL REFUSES TO VOTE FOR NEW TAX INCREASES THAT
COUNCILMEN JAMES RICH SADDLER, NICHOLAS BASHAM AND JERROLD ALBRECHT
STRONGLY
SUPPORT.?
At the council meeting ON MAY 23, 2011 Auditor Trent Williams mentioned
to Councilman Richard Noel that the Fire Station in Sciotoville might be closed. Was this a threat?
On June 13th, 2011 Auditor Trent Williams was not at the meeting.
Third Ward Councilman Nicholas Basham also failed to attend this meeting.
By Austin Leedom,Tuesday, 14 June 2011
A City Council
meeting was held at 6:00 pm, 23 May
11
"Most expensive show in town" Councilmen John Haas and Nicholas
Basham
are
still confused;
Basham
is beginning to understand the City is broke. During
the
meeting
Council President
Haas
moaned about the new tax burden being defeated at
the
polls
by the voters. Passage of the new tax would give the council another
1.5
million a
year
to spend,
but,
according to Basham this would only keep us
even
and would not be
enough
to make up past
deficits.
With
the report of a break-in, Monday, May 23, 2011, at the Scioto
County
Clerk
of Courts Office,
the
security of the other Offices located in our
County
Court House is now
questionable.
A
RECOUNT OF INCOME TAX PROPOSAL TO BE DONE AT one
o'CLOCK
in
the Courthouse at the Board of
Elections.
Austin Leedom
A City Council
meeting was held at 6:00 pm, 23 May
11
"Most expensive show in town" Councilmen John Haas and Nicholas
Basham
are
still confused;
Basham
is beginning to understand the City is broke. During
the
meeting
Council President
Haas
moaned about the new tax burden being defeated at
the
polls
by the voters. Passage of the new tax would give the council another
1.5
million a
year
to spend,
but,
according to Basham this would only keep us
even
and would not be
enough
to make up past
deficits.
With
the report of a break-in, Monday, May 23, 2011, at the Scioto
County
Clerk
of Courts Office,
the
security of the other Offices located in our
County
Court House is now
questionable.
A
RECOUNT OF INCOME TAX PROPOSAL TO BE DONE AT one
o'CLOCK
in
the Courthouse at the Board of
Elections.
Austin Leedom
COUNCIL MEETING 6:00 PM - Four men, Jerrold
Trent Williams and Solicitor Mike Jones voted we could spend more money than we were going to receive. They voted for pay raises themselves and for all others.
Don't blame the unions or the union employees. They are good workers; they are not
overpaid. This deficit is the result of bad management. and bad purchases.
Malone, Dr. Robert Forrey SHOWS US WHY SELECTION OF
MAYOR JANE MURRAY IS GONE!
A writer has posted on Moe’s Forum that David Malone
may be an “Uncle Tom.)
(Council President David Malone did not join in repeated nasty, vocal attacks made on Mayor Murray by Councilmen John Haas and Nicholas Bashman.)
And Malone accomplished becoming Mayor
without once adding any growls at the tiny
79-pound Mayor Mary Jane Murray to join in with the snarling dog-pack of vicious, disrespectful, unmanly city
officials that were assigned to abuse and harass
the new Mayor during the Council Meetings.
The Un-Godly, Un-American dog-pack that attacked the Lady
Mayor is composed of the real "Uncle Toms" who
were being servile to their mentors or
controllers.
“Take
the Mayor out, Yassur, Yassur Boss, we’ll
do it, we’ll do it, we’ll take her
out.”
Beginning with the first council meeting day, Solicitor Mike Malone, Auditor Trent Williams, Councilmen John R. Haas, his Councilman “friend” Nicholas Basham and City Clerk Joann Aeh were disrespectful.
These disrespectful rabble may have caused damage to the
names of their parents who sired them, bore them
and nurtured them.
In the words of Jesus, “the tree is known
by his fruit.”
(St.
Matthew 12:33 KJV.)
Also descendants of these trash-talking public officials may sometime video-view their father in action talking so crudely to a lady during a public council meeting.
The Lady Mayor will be soon be gone, perhaps little remembered, but what the abusers have done in fulfilling their evil agenda will live in shameful video history, and be long remembered in the minds of all who witnessed and heard their words.
But she did not cower before the pack, nor she did run, nor
did she return their nasty, abusive, growling,
disrespectful comments back upon these
intestinally deficient, testicular-lacking speakers who demonstrated an unparaelled, uncivilized lack of manhood
as they spoke their nasty
utterances.
Council President David Malone, and Councilmen Richard Noel, Kevin Johnson, and Jerrold Albrecht had no part in the attacks on the Lady Mayor.
WHY? COUNCIL REFUSED TO ALLOW MAYOR TO RE-INSTALL TRAFFIC
LIGHTS.
ONE DEAD ALREADY. WHY NO HEADLINES
ON THIS LOSS OF
LIFE? LET US
KEEP OUR
MAYOR AND RECALL FOUR IRRESPONSIBLE
COUNCILMEN,
DAVID MALONE,
JOHN HAAS, NICHOLAS BASHAM AND
JERROLD
ALBRECHT.
THE VICTIMS'S
BLOOD IS ON THEIR HANDS, AND THEY CAN'T
WASH IT AWAY.
Did these four
unthinking
heinous Councilmen
go to view the body or go
to attend
the funeral?
Did they
send flowers? WHO WILL DIE NEXT
AT THIS
INTERSECTION THAT HAS NO TRAFFIC
LIGHT?
COUNCIL
ILLEGALLY TOOK AWAY MAYOR'S POWER TO RE-INSTALL
TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND FORBID HER TO
REPLACE SIGNALS.
Below is copy of email I received on 05 Dec 2010
–Austin Leedom-
From: Jane Murray
<mayormurray@portsmouthoh.org>
To:
Kevin W. Johnson <kwwj@roadrunner.com>; Tracy Shearer
<TShearer@portsmouthoh.org>
Cc: Becky
Steele <BSteele@portsmouthoh.org>; Larry Justice
<ljustice@portsmouthoh.org>;
Bill Beaumont <bbeaumont@portsmouthoh.org>; Jynx Jenkins <JJenkins@portsmouthoh.org>;
Richard
Noel <noelricharde@hotmail.com>;
David Malone <dam4kbem@frontier.com>
Sent: Thu,
December 2, 2010 10:02:47 AM
Subject: RE: 2007-2010 Accident
Report20101201_0010.pdf - Adobe Acrobat
Standard
Your observations are right on. There is no one
to interpret, Kevin.
You may recall that I provided Council with the accident reports including data showing personal injury as well as property damage on 11th and 12th Streets before and after lights were taken out of service. Huge negative impact, especially at Findlay. One person lost their life at
Clay and
11th. Council refused multiple times to act
responsibly.
What
can I say??
Mayor Jane Murray
City
of Portsmouth, OH
728 Second
Street
Portsmouth,
OH 45662
740-354-8807
mayormurray@portsmouthoh.org
TO: PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES EDITOR- WHY was this loss of life not news?
Why wasn't this needless city traffic death reported by Portsmouth Daily Times?
Dozens of frivolous negative reports against Mayor by Council members
have been front-paged. Isn't the loss of a life caused by Council's obstructive
action newsworthy? -Austin Leedom-
CITY COUNCIL MEETING - Monday, October 25, 2010
Further Report on CITY COUNCIL MEETING - Tuesday, October 26, 2010
“Dead Beat Dad” John Haas, well known for his failure to pay Court ordered support for his children, is also the Fifth Ward Councilman. John Haas, surly, brutish, and crude as usual, rammed an "emergency" unpublished Nazi-type resolution through City Council on Monday,the 25th of October with the aid of his accomplice, THE 3rd Ward Councilman Nicholas Basham and the support of
Council President David Malone and 4th Ward Councilman Jerrold Albrecht.
This resolution was a tyrannical power play to take away from the
Mayor's chartered duties and powers as the City Chief Executive, as
pertains to Traffic, and place this power into the hands of the
Haas/Basham Council.
6th Ward Councilman Richard Noel and 1st Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson strongly objected to this Nazi-type abuse of power by John Haas and his supporters.
Their resolution is Un-American, frightening, and totally illegal.
That such action is instigated by a person such as John R. Haas, known to fail to support his own children, is disgusting to all persons who care for and take care of their own offspring. Their action will likely lead to litigation and create a further expense item to a budget that is already in deficit for nearly two million dollars.
Questions arise.
One. "Is John Randall Haas a healthy and mentally-well man?
Two. "Why would a man who cannot manage to provide food for his own children believe he should be managing anything in city government?
Written by Austin Leedom on Wednesday, the 27th of October, 2010.
Auditor Trent Williams found
at
St. Mary’s International
Festival
Sunday, 19 September 2010 Written by Austin
Leedom
Saint
Mary’s Festival was again a
grand event with good attendance.
I was able to attend Sunday evening where I enjoyed seeing old friends, had a
snack at the table with Musician Joe Ferguson and Lawyer Mike Mearan and
enjoyed Gary Billups’ great, big band sound of music.
Ex-Sixth Ward Councilman Marty Mohr was in charge of the drawing for the big
$1,000.00 Grand Prize. Trent Williams was honored to draw the winning ticket.
Our missing City Auditor M. Trent Williams showed up on a big shiny, sporty bike
in time to draw the winning ticket from the rolling drum.
Special Council Meeting 6:00 p.m., at City Hall, Monday,
March 01, 2010/
Council
President David Malone was hospitalized following the four-hour
meeting last
Monday night.
Malone has
now called for a special meeting to consider looking again
at a
proposal that was rejected at the last meeting.
Apparently
he has recovered and decided to reconsider his refusal to provide Mayor
Jane Murray with authority to spend Four Thousand Dollars of a
Four-Hundred Thousand Dollar Housing grant she will obtain if Council will
agree that she may spend Four Thousand Dollars of the Grant money when it
is obtained to pay for help she has found to obtain the Four-Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
At the last
meeting Jerrold Albrecht, Richard Noel, Kevin Johnson voted in favor of
paying Four-Thousand Dollars for the Four-Hundred Thousand Dollars grant
the City can obtain with approval of the Council. The payment is to
be made from the grant money when it is received. However, Council
President David Malone, Third Ward Councilman Nicholas Basham and Fifth
Ward Councilman John Haas refused to honor the Mayor's
request. This is to be only item to be considered at this
special meeting.
Written by
Austin Leedom on Sunday, February 28, 2010.
Several
people have asked us recently about the whereabouts of our very scarce
City
Auditor and also about the seldom seen $26,202
new Luxury SUV that Trent
purchased for his personal use with City funds in December, 2009 after he finally
figured out the city was running
over a million dollars in deficit.
Neither Auditor Williams nor the luxury city vehicle
have been seen much lately by
our
City Hall watchers.
Trent Williams’ personal appearance has
greatly changed since
he was
elected Auditor nearly eleven years ago after
beating the notorious ex-cop,
then-Auditor Tom Bihl in a close race in November, 1999.
Trent
is still growing in the Auditor’s job, not with increase in education
or competence
in
his overpaid position, but growth
in girth, weight, and long, long hair.
He arrived at the St. Mary’s Festival on his bike
jauntily sporting a bright bandana
around his head,
and long dark hair with matching
dark sunglasses.
He looked every inch a biker and
proudly moved like he was “The King of the Road.”
Trent ran River Days
Festival this fall and did a good
work in conducting one of the best
and longest parades in many
years.
By Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, Tuesday, 22
September, 2010
City Council meeting of 27 September 2010
14 items of legislation were considered by Council at
meeting. They were passed by
an
agreeable council, only two items brought complaints by
Councilman John Haas
and Nicholas Basham. The two rogue councilmen
were not as disagreeable last night
as they often have been. Council passed the disputed items
with four councilmen
(David Malone, Kevin Johnson, Richard Noel and Jerrold
Albrecht voting for passage and
Haas and Basham voting no. Written by
Austin Leedom 28 Sep 10
Fifth Ward City Councilman John R. Haas must appear in Common
Pleas Court 11/04/10 for contempt of court for failure to provide support
for his children. See sciotocountycpcourt.org/
City Council Meeting on 13 September 2010 was disrupted by the devilish duo:
Murray Street Tavern owner Nick Basham, the 3rd Ward Councilman,
and Dead-Beat-Daddy Lawyer John R. Haas, Councilman of the 5th Ward.
They acted as usual, disrespectful, loud-mouthed, ill mannered and obstructive.
Haas threw a temper tantrum and rushed from the room while meeting
was still in
session.
Council Meeting Tonight
Monday, April 26, 2010
By Shawnee Sentinel writer Austin Leedom 26 April 2010
After repeated, nasty, loud-mouthed attacks on new lady Mayor
Jane Murray by Councilmen
John Haas and Nicholas Basham for not
having a balanced budget
prepared for their approval in early January,
the city council then took
over the task of producing a balanced balance.
During the first council meetings of this year
Counciman Nicholas Basham
and John Haas both spoke, criticizing the
lady Mayor, in a manner that
only can be uttered by males who have
apostatized from any claim or belief in the
society of manhood. After these and
other unfair attacks on the new
Mayor,
the City Council decided they would prepare
the budget.
They appear to be ignorant to the fact
that the Charter ordains that the
budget be prepared by the
Mayor and presented to the Council each
year by the fifteenth
of November. Former Mayor Jim Kalb was fifty days late with the budget when new Mayor Jane Murray
took office on
January 4, 2010.
Now, three months later the council, has learned they
cannot overcome the irresponsible spending of city
funds in 2009.
The money is gone, spent
by the previous Mayor, with approval of the
previous city council, and with the support of the City
Solicitor Mike Jones and City Auditor Trent
Williams.
Three of the city councilmen who
supported the grand deficit
spending in 2009 are members of the present
council. These three men are Council President David Malone, and
Councilmen Jerrold Albrecht and John
Haas.
After repeated, nasty, loud-mouthed attacks on new lady Mayor
Jane Murray by Councilmen John Haas and Nicholas Basham for not
having a balanced budget prepared for their approval in early January,
the city council then took over the task of producing a balanced balance.
During the first council meetings of this year Counciman Nicholas Basham
and John Haas both spoke, criticizing the lady Mayor, in a manner that
only can be uttered by males who have apostatized from any claim or belief in the society of manhood. After these and other unfair attacks on the new Mayor,
the City Council decided they would prepare the budget.
They appear to be ignorant to the fact that the Charter ordains that the
budget be prepared by the Mayor and presented to the Council each
year by the fifteenth of November. Former Mayor Jim Kalb was fifty days late with the budget when new Mayor Jane Murray took office on
January 4, 2010.
Written 19 April 2010 by Austin Leedom
After countless long special meetings the council is now ready to pass the budget they have produced. Now, in conspiracy with Solicitor Mike Jones,
and
Auditor Williams, the council more than three months
later, has produced a
budget.............. A DEFICIT
BUDGET.
City Council will meet in a
special meeting at 6:00 p.m. at
City Hall. They will approve a budget for
2010 that will be
in deficit about one-half a
million dollars.
Approval of a deficit budget
should be easy for
Councilmen
John Haas, Jerrold Albrecht, and Council President David Malone.
These three,
along with the now deposed Mike Mearan, approved such
a
deficit budget in February 2009 despite warnings from Councilmen
Richard Noel and Bob Mollette. Then, not only did the four
councilmen approve a deficit
budget, they also approved big raises for Solicitor Mike Jones,
Auditor Trent Williams
and then-Mayor Jim Kalb.
For good measure they also approved the purchase of an expensive ($26,202.00) SUV for the Auditor Trent Williams for the exclusive personal use of Auditor Trent Williams.
Written by Austin Leedom Monday, April 19, 2010
Written by Austin Leedom Monday April 12, 2010.
This is an answer to an April 11,
2010 post on Moe’s Forum by
Rebel (James K.
Wilson)
Reb: Be easy on
Nick Basham. He’s young but
has intelligence and has proven he
will work.
He will learn that a
deficit is a deficit. It is
good that the council is preparing the budget, line by line.
They have worked long, long hours through several very lengthy special meetings
Both Basham and John Haas may be councilmen for more than one term if they quit talking of violating the God-given Constitutional Rights of Free Speech with words and suggestions of limiting citizens’ rights to speak in the public city council meetings. Most Americans do not accept such talk against freedom.
Also, such talk of violating citizens’ rights is a mockery and an insult to the memory of millions of men and women who have served America in the armed forces of this great nation.
Hundreds of thousands of American military personnel, both
men and women, have died in
combat to maintain our freedoms. With our men and women now
actively engaged in two wars overseas in efforts to gain Democracy for others,
many local citizens may consider talk
of muzzling local citizens abominably disloyal to America.
It is proper justice perhaps that three of the councilmen
who with little question, accepted the proposal for the 2009 deficit budget are now
learning what Councilmen Bob Mollette and Richard Noel were saying when they refused
to okay the deficit 2009 budget.
The present three councilmen, David Malone, Jerrold Albrecht
and John Haas, who voted for the Mayor Jim Kalb, Auditor Trent Williams 2009
budget fourteen months ago have now been working with thoroughness and diligence in
preparation of an honest budget for 2010. This has been time consuming for
them, but they have worked without complaint for the good of the city. We have heard no wailings or
lamentations from any of the
councilmen.
The six councilmen have been working hard on the
budget. This is admirable,
and is educational. We
may now have the best financially informed City Council we have
ever had.
At the time in February 2009 when the deficit budget was
accepted, Councilmen Haas was newly appointed to the Council and may be excused for
voting with David Malone, Jerrold Albrecht and Mike Mearan for the deficit 2009
budget. Haas had not had time
to
learn. The Mayor and the
Auditor assured the councilmen at the time there would be
no
deficit.. Also Solicitor Mike
Jones urged passage of the budget.
Auditor Trent Williams, Mayor Jim Kalb and Solicitor Mike Jones all had a personal money interest in the budget ordinance as all three of them were granted yet another
pay raise in this ordinance. Auditor Trent Williams had also
written into the ordinance passage of funds to purchase a deluxe
$26,202.00 SUV for Auditor Trent Williams’ personal
use.
Once again Reb, please don’t be harsh with Nicholas
Basham. He may turn out to be
one of the better councilmen, certainly better than most
councilpersons we have suffered under during the past ten
years.
Written by Austin Leedom Monday April 12, 2010.
THE BUDGET NIGHTMARE
By Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, Monday, April 5, 2010
Have four of the city councilmen, Jerrold Albrecht, Nicholas Basham, John Haas and David Malone, perhaps unfairly criticized the new Mayor Jane Murray for not having a budget prepared for their consideration in early January 2010?
Is it possible they spoke without knowledge that the budget was already fifty days late when Mayor Jane Murray took office on the 4th of January 2010?
The proposed budget was, by
council rules, to have been presented to the council on the
15th of November,
2009.
The past Mayor, Jim Kalb, for five years never had a proposed
budget prepared on
time. This was not entirely Mayor Kalb’s
fault as he had
difficulty getting
account totals and figures from
Auditor
Trent Williams in due time to prepare
a proposal.
Standard practice, for the past recent years, was for Mayor Kalb to present the proposals to the Council during the last meeting in February of the following year and declare Council had to pass the budget as an “Emergency Ordinance” or city employees would not be able to get their pay the following week.
For the
past two years, Councilmen Bob Mollette and Richard Noel questioned many
of the
expenditures and asked where the funds were coming from
to pay for expenditures.
BUDGET
2008
In 2008,
Councilmen Howard Baughman, Mike Mearan, Jerrold Albrecht and
David Malone willingly and
with almost no question
passed the “Emergency Ordinance” to authorize the belated
budget proposal.
Before the vote in February 2008, during discussion of this budget proposal by council, Councilman Bob Mollette kept asking how the city was going to pay for the expenditures proposed. Mr. Mollette was so insistent about accountability
in the
budget that Council President Howard
Baughman actually yelled at
Councilman Mollette with the words that Mollette was
using up valuable time and was costing the city money by continuing to ask questions about
the budget proposal.
Councilmen David Malone, Jerrold Albrecht agreed with Baughman. Also Mayor Jim Kalb, Auditor Trent Williams and even Solicitor Mike Jones loudly indicated to Councilman Mollette that they had heard enough questions about the budget. At times the attacking officials were interrupting each other with two or three of them all talking
against Mr. Mollette at once. When the rude, unkind remarks to Councilman Mollette finally ceased, Mr. Mollette looked up, and without raising his voice, kindly and gently thanked the other officials for their comments and then quietly asked them
another question about the budget.
(Bob Mollette is noted for his good manners and was
known as the “Council Gentleman” who, during
six years on city council, never raised his voice,
never interrupted another speaker and never spoke
unkindly to or about anyone.)
Buried in the many lines of this 2008 budget were pay raises
for City Auditor Trent Williams, City Solicitor Mike Jones
and Mayor Jim Kalb. Such pay raises in the middle of a
term of office is unethical, immoral and (illegal under
State Code.) Such raises were also against common sense
as all three of these men had repeatedly been given pay raises,
large pay increases, that most knowing citizens believed
were undeserved.
Councilmen Albrecht, Baughman, Malone and Mearan
Voted YES for the budget “emergency ordinance.”
Councilmen Mollette and Noel voted NO, they refused to support a
deficit budget.
BUDGET
2009
During the final council meeting in February 2009, the City Council, along with Mayor Jim Kalb, Auditor Trent Williams and Solicitor Mike Jones, performed a replay of the 2008 budget presentation, as Mayor Kalb proclaimed again that an “Emergency Ordinance” for the budget must be passed at once in order for city employees to receive their next payday.
Again
more illegal undeserved pay raises were included in the budget and granted
to Solicitor Mike Jones,
Auditor
Trent Williams, and Mayor Jim Kalb.
Also in this “Emergency Ordinance” the council
also
voted for a new deluxe SUV auto for the personal use of City Auditor Trent
Williams. The cost to the city was $26,202.00 for
this vehicle.
Again, Councilmen Richard Noel and Bob Mollette questioned the financial accountability of this budget and refused to vote for a budget that was, in Mollette’s words, “a deficit budget.”
Molette and Noel would not support such an unaccountable
plan.
In February 2009 Howard Baughman was no longer on Council. Baughman had left council as a result of a recall by irate citizens of his Fifth Ward. John Haas was now on council after being appointed, in a questionable action, to Baughman’s vacated position on December 8, 2008.
Three
councilmen who had gained their seats through appointment, Jerrold
Albrecht, Mike Mearan and John
Haas, plus elected Councilman David Malone passed this budget as an “Emergency
Ordinance,” The vote was four
in favor, two against the ordinance.
Have City Councilmen Jerrold Albrecht, John Haas, and David Malone
been criticizing others unduly for the major financial damage that resulted from the “Emergency Ordinance” that these same three voted to pass in February 2009?
BUDGET 2010
These
three city councilmen have settled down and are now trying to propose and
pass a
new budget by following
and adjusting the line items in the budget that ex-Mayor Kalb proposed
in
February 2009.
It is my
understanding that these three Councilmen, and Councilman Richard Noel,
along
with the
new Councilmen Nicholas Basham and Kevin Johnson are now working to perhaps
follow on
the same budget path that was traveled in February 2009, but
with proper dollar amounts.
The results of their efforts in this copycat action from a previous disaster
may be very interesting.
I have good reason to believe it will be much improved over the old Kalb
budget from which they are working.
Give the
Councilmen good credit for diligently trying, and pray for the
best.
By Shawnee Sentinel Writer Austin Leedom, Monday, April 05, 2010
Go to City Hall and take a look at the big new white deluxe HIGHLANDER
SUV TOYOTA you bought for Trent Williams who has been getting big pay
as a City Auditor. Car should be parked in city lot at the southeast
corner of City Hall in space marked 'FOR THE AUDITOR.'
City Auditor Trent Williams celebrated the biggest deficit in Portsmouth
City financial history by buying new $26,2002 luxury auto from Andy’s
Toyota for Trent Williams’ personal use December, 2009.
Do you remember Trent Williams; he was the pay-off man in the Two Million Dollar Marting Foundation scandalous theft of your money by Clay Johnson in May 2002?
Clay Johnson still has our Two Million Dollars, and we are in deficit?
6:00 p.m. Thursday, 25 March
2010.
Special Council Meeting – This evening at City Hall – City Budget-
All Citizens Welcome – Please Attend. City Council, ex-Mayor Jim Kalb, Auditor Trent Williams and Solicitor Mike Jones finished 2009 with a multi-million dollar deficit in the city treasury. Hopefully, Councilmen John Haas and Nicholas Bashman will begin to act responsibly, for the good of the city.
25 March 2010 by Austin Leedom
Third Ward City Councilman Nicholas Basham in another
public altercation?
Written Sunday, March 21, 2010 by Austin Leedom. Facts and Opinion.
Yesterday I received a copy of the email displayed below.
As many of you may know, Nicholas Basham has attained a
Master’s degree in Music and has produced many award
winning high school band performances for his former
employer, Northwest High School.
He is to be honored for his accomplishments in his chosen field.
However, from his writing, it appears he didn’t do well in
English Grammar and English Composition studies.
Peruse his email and you will comprehend. And perhaps,
he missed his Ethics education entirely.
Here is the email to Portsmouth Mayor Jane Murray written from RockHill High School in Lawrence County by Nicholas Basham:
“From: Nicholas Basham
[mailto:nbasham@rockhill.org]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010
1:36 PM
To: Jane
Murray
Cc:
portscityclk@hotmail.com; mljones@pmcourt.org
Subject: Events of
Yesterday
Jane,
I heard on the radio this morning, a mention of the event
between you and I. (nothing in detail) I'm not sure where
this came from. All feelings aside, I did not goto ANY media
source about our issue in the clerks office. Unless provoked,
I see no need to goto a media source.
Nicholas
Basham
3rd Ward Councilman”
- parentheses were added by
Editor-
Note: I received this email copy, but not from either of the alleged participants. If I have public documents I have the freedom to publish what I have. Friday morning I heard talk that the Municipal Court Bailiff, on Thursday, March 18, 2010, went into the office of the City Clerk (which is located in a room in the rear of Municipal
Court Room on the north side of the City Hall) to quiet very
loud talk emanating from the Clerk’s Office where the Honorable Mayor
Jane Murray was meeting with the Honorable Third Ward Councilman
Nicholas Basham.
I have not since had an opportunity to speak with either of the aforementioned officials about this matter. However, I did see Mr. Basham at about 9:20 p.m. on Thursday night when I stopped in at the old Murray Street Bar where I saw him and exchanged greetings with him as I entered the bar that he and his partners are now operating as
the “Dickens Pub.”
I spoke with Mr. O’Bannion for about ten minutes and learned that they do have real English beer for sale but serve it cold, American style. (The place has been redone and has a very good appearance.)
More Facts and Opinions: From other citizens I have heard that Councilman Basham was creating the most noise in the disturbance in the Clerk’s Office last Thursday. To me this is easy to believe as I had earlier witnessed the Honorable Councilman Basham at an evening meeting at Shawnee State University. During this meeting Basham conducted himself in a most ungentlemanly manner as he loudly and repeatedly interrupted the Mayor and others as they were speaking and finally, in an apparent temper tantrum, went to the chalkboard in the classroom where we were meeting, wrote his name and telephone number on the board and then exited the room.
As Councilman Basham left he slammed the classroom door shut violently. Many citizens have since seen and heard similar discourteous impolite actions and words from Councilman Basham during official meetings.
He will bear watching at future meetings. Our next opportunity to witness Mr. Basham in action will be at the City Council meeting to be held next Monday, March 22, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in the Welcome Center Building on Front Street.
Written Sunday, March 21, 2010 by
Austin Leedom. Facts and
Opinion.
Council meeting at Welcome
Center 6:00
p.m. Monday
March 22, 2010 - Hear about multi- million dollar deficit
left by Ex-Mayor Jim Kalb, City Council Members, the City Solicitor and
the City Auditor. Citizens have been
robbed, and greedy
special
interests have become richer.
In the
Martings case a Criminal action in Federal Court can get our
money back ($2,000.000) and
some felons put into prison. Written by Austin
Leedom
August, 2007
Councilmen Marty MOhr and Jerrold Albrecht absent
from special Council Meeting last night.
Portsmouth City Council President Howard Baughman
and appointed First Ward Councilman/Lawyer Mike Mearan
plotting move out of historic city building for benefit
of local shysters, bankers, at 6:00 p.m. meeting on
Monday, 30 July '07 at City Hall. Confusion reigned at the
meeting, only Councilmen David Malone and Bob Mollette
have an inkling that this crooked deal will not go well
with the citizens who do not want a new city hall.
Mayor Jim Kalb was present
physically, but appeared to have difficulty
comprehending what was being said; he didn't
look well and acted more confused than usual.
The consensus of the people is that they want to keep the
present building site and do not want to pay an extra 11 to 14
million dollars for a building they do not need and do not want
Our dull-witted Mayor continues to follow the plans of Johnson/Hatcher & Associates,
under the close direction of Council President Howard Baughman.
This latest Gang proposal to build on the small (less than one acre)
Adelphia site will cost us five times more than the Marting robbery.
Come to the special building planning meeting on Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. Attend the meeting and voice your opinion. 'Silence' will be 'golden' to the swindlers who are engineering this disaster for their profit at your expense. It is a choice; speak up now or pay up for the next twenty years. (I attended the meeting---Citizens
were not permitted to speak. Council President Baughman and
Mike Mearan don't want to hear what the citizens who will
pay the bill have to say.)Another letter to the Shawnee Sentinel Editor by a Portsmouth Citizen
who doesn't want his name published.
Portsmouth Citizen decries neglect of city and citizens by
Mayor and Council members. (August 2007)
"Here's my
thoughts...
*The City of Portsmouth needs to show the citizens that
it is interested
in keeping anything in working order before it takes
on debt for a city
building. They've neglected the current
building just like they've
neglected everything else in the
city. Our current leadership shows no
leadership in caring for
anything. They let landlords rent properties
that are
unsafe. The streets are filthy and lined with weeds.
Wild
dogs are permitted to roam freely. Prostitution is
rampant. Drugs
dealers work openly in many areas. Crime is
just given a wink and a
nod. Our parks are being sold off or
allowed to decay.
Entire neighborhoods of fine old homes have been allowed to fall into
such a
state of squalor that all they are fit for is the wrecking
ball.
Elections are decided through criminal prosecution
of anyone foolish
enough to challenge an incumbent. The blame
for this falls directly on
the City's elected officials and the
department heads.
When was the last time a city councilman
actually walked the streets of
his Ward? When was the last time
the Mayor walked through any of the
Wards? They offer no
hope of turning anything around as if everything
was beyond their
control.
Just like Nero let Rome burn so he could build his new
palaces, our
leaders are allowing the town to rot away under their
benign neglect."
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Writer asks for more for citizens and city workers, doesn’t want a
fancy new building.
“The City Building
After
seeing the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, the
steam pipes in NYC blow
up, and the tunnel collapsed in Boston
I've
come to the conclusion that we are all nuts.
Why
are we fussing over where to build a new palace for our local elected
few?
Give our city hall workers a clean safe place to work with a water fountain to
drink from and then spend our money on streets, sewers, police, firemen, water,
playgrounds , etc.
Make this a town where the citizens come first. We should be concerned about
the well being of our citizens, not some palatial structure that is used by the
"elite" few of the city for only a few hours a
week.
James K.
Wilson. Portsmouth, Ohio,
“
City Hall is
neglected and filthy, but come to the
CITY COUNCIL
MEETING at 6:00 p.m. today
Citizens are angry about proposal to tear down
current
City Hall and move city government for the benefit
of “developers” to take over OUR
present
City Hall site.
Council meeting 6:00 p.m.
today
on the third floor of City Hall.
. Citizens don’t need a
new building, they do not
want a new
building; they also don’t want the
$11,000, 000
(eleven Million Dollars) in new taxes on
their real estate. that Mike Mearan, and some of
the
other paid-for Councilman want to burden us
with.
Appointed First Ward Councilman/Lawyer Mike
Mearan
is one of the most vocal proponents of this evil
plan to tax
you to benefit this latest monstrous criminal
conspiracy.
.
Mike Mearan doesn’t mind a raise on property
taxes.
Mearan doesn’t pay taxes. Official court records show he
doesn’t
pay federal income taxes, and show he doesn’t pay
state taxes.
Do you think he pays city income taxes?
According to the County Auditor’s website Mike
Mearan owns
no property,
Lawyer/Councilman Michael Hugh Mearan has federal
court
judgments against him in the amount of over
$40,000 for failure
to pay his federal income taxes for the past 15
years.
Mike Mearan also has judgments from State of Ohio
for failure to pay
State taxes he owes. Both federal and state judgments
date back to 1992.
Records of these judgments against Mike Mearan may
be
found at the Scioto County Clerk of Courts and at
the County
Recorder’s Office.
Mearan is a dead-beat criminal tax evader He wants you to
pay taxes for the SOGP/Clay Johnson/Neal Hatcher
plan to
rip down the present city building and build a new
Eleven-Million
Dollars City Building on busy Washington Street on
a site that is
less than one acre in size and with very little
parking space.
Mearan will not pay taxes; you will pay.
Our present large well located City Building site
then will be
sold to undesirable developers for “the betterment
of Portsmouth.”
Council Meeting at 6:00 p.m. on third floor of
City Hall Building. Our inconsiderate Council and
Mayor
have refused to provide adequate air conditioning
for
the meetings.
Mayor Jim Kalb has told reporters he
likes it that way. “If it is too hot for people in
the
council chambers, they will stay away, that’s the
way
we like it.”
If you are physically able to stand the HEAT, come
to
the Council meeting and put the heat on the
councilmen
who want you to pay Eleven Million Dollars for
their
secretive scheme..
Written by Austin Leedom, Monday, August 13,
2007.
City Hall is neglected and filthy, but come to the
CITY COUNCIL MEETING at 6:00 p.m. today
An example of the writings on the
Sentinel Forum is shown below
READ
THE SENTINEL FORUM
-
POSTS
FROM
THREE DIFFERENT WRITERS ARE COPIED BELOW.
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
Where have you been? Two meetings in a row! Who pray tell is representing all
those good
citizens in the 6th? What are you up to, good sir.?
I think no good. Yes sir no good at all.
Now we know you are not running for another term so
are you getting ready to resign and
then let the fabled 4 appoint someone to cover till
the election????? HMMMMMMM
Now it
was reported that a virtual stranger to our bi-monthly get togethers came
and
sweated it out like all the rest. Could it be that
you are about to make an announcement
and then suggest they put young WILL MAULT on to
cover till the election. Then young Will
is running as an incumbent. It is much easier to
get reelected instead of being an unknown
This is not very nice of you boys. But when the
H-ll have you ever played nice?
By Rebel62
246
Re:
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
Since there is no provision on that in Section 3 of
the City Charter, it seems that there might
be in the Revised Code or somewhere, it seems. that
it's illogical, insane, or something like
that to appoint a certified candidate and that is
not ah, Kosher? It seems.....................
It's been said that he may run as a write in, but
if there is another anointed one? Then,
it's all the more need for M 1 5 6. If your
prophecy is accurate, then they are on the move
with the Mohr doing that and the Kalb resurrecting
the CCG bashing.......................
it's starting and some have been told to have
patience, etc. Good advice, whose grand Dad
told that one?
But then again on that other approach you or
someone said, about informing the people, etc.
If the people see that, then it would be
anti-productive for them?
Hey
would you mind posting these landmines or IED's like this earlier in the
evening?
Re:
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
by A CITIZEN
Good thinking Rebel:
You are an experienced council watcher. You know
them. In fact, two years ago,
you and
Moe Ferguson video-recorded Councilmen David
Malone, Jerrold Albrecht, Marty Mohr and
Howard Baughman holding a secret, unlawful meeting
in a backroom where they were plotting
to deny freedom of speech to Portsmouth
citizens. These four were
planning to keep citizens
from speaking on items not on the agenda during
council meetings. (The
plan failed;
Malone and Albrecht got cold feet when faced by the
citizens. They abandoned Marty Mohr
and Howard Baughman to be the only two councilmen
to openly vote to violate the
First Amendment rights of our
citizens.)
You also remember when
Howard Baughman and Marty Mohr illegally placed Jerrold Albrecht
in a seat at the council
table without even a vote.
Albrecht still doesn’t believe he was properly
placed on council; he
mentioned this five months later, after he had been voting on legislation
by following the
instructions of Mohr and Baughman.
It is widely believed that these four
councilmen (Mohr, Baughman, Albrecht, Malone)
are doing the work of Clay Johnson (Martings
SOGP) and Neal Hatcher, (Eminent
Domain)
with an assist from the paid for Mayor, Jim Kalb.
You suggest or predict that
the unelectable Marty Mohr has been ordered by his handlers to
miss meetings so he will be
declared ineligible to continue as Sixth Ward Council Ward
Councilman.
Then David Malone, Howard Baughman,
Jerrold Albrecht and Mike Mearan will legally or
illegally get Will Mault
placed in the Sixth Ward Council seat. As an incumbent councilman
Mault’s chances of election
will be greatly enhanced.
So, with your experience with the immorality and
lack of scruples of this gang,
your prophecy is well founded. You are only one of thousands of citizens who do
not trust the city council to represent the people.
In my opinion, you have revealed the game plan of our local Evil Empire builders
for the fall election in the Sixth Ward. If these acts you have predicted
come to pass
we shall know you as a prophet.
If I were a wagering man, I would place my money on
your perceptions of the plans
of the unelected power brokers of this city who are
organized to continue stealing from
the honest citizens by controlling the members of
the city council.
William Sydney
Porter
The writings you read above
were copied from the Sentinel Forum.
http://com2,runboard,com/bsentinelforum You
may write your news or opinions on the
forum.
An example of the writings on the
Sentinel Forum is shown below
READ
THE SENTINEL FORUM
-
POSTS
FROM
THREE DIFFERENT WRITERS ARE COPIED BELOW.
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
Where have you been? Two meetings in a row! Who pray tell is representing all
those good
citizens in the 6th? What are you up to, good sir.?
I think no good. Yes sir no good at all.
Now we know you are not running for another term so
are you getting ready to resign and
then let the fabled 4 appoint someone to cover till
the election????? HMMMMMMM
Now it
was reported that a virtual stranger to our bi-monthly get togethers came
and
sweated it out like all the rest. Could it be that
you are about to make an announcement
and then suggest they put young WILL MAULT on to
cover till the election. Then young Will
is running as an incumbent. It is much easier to
get reelected instead of being an unknown
This is not very nice of you boys. But when the
H-ll have you ever played nice?
By Rebel62
246
Re:
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
Since there is no provision on that in Section 3 of
the City Charter, it seems that there might
be in the Revised Code or somewhere, it seems. that
it's illogical, insane, or something like
that to appoint a certified candidate and that is
not ah, Kosher? It seems.....................
It's been said that he may run as a write in, but
if there is another anointed one? Then,
it's all the more need for M 1 5 6. If your
prophecy is accurate, then they are on the move
with the Mohr doing that and the Kalb resurrecting
the CCG bashing.......................
it's starting and some have been told to have
patience, etc. Good advice, whose grand Dad
told that one?
But then again on that other approach you or
someone said, about informing the people, etc.
If the people see that, then it would be
anti-productive for them?
Hey
would you mind posting these landmines or IED's like this earlier in the
evening?
Re:
MARTY/MARTY/MARTY
by A CITIZEN
Good thinking Rebel:
You are an experienced council watcher. You know
them. In fact, two years ago,
you and
Moe Ferguson video-recorded Councilmen David
Malone, Jerrold Albrecht, Marty Mohr and
Howard Baughman holding a secret, unlawful meeting
in a backroom where they were plotting
to deny freedom of speech to Portsmouth
citizens. These four were
planning to keep citizens
from speaking on items not on the agenda during
council meetings. (The
plan failed;
Malone and Albrecht got cold feet when faced by the
citizens. They abandoned Marty Mohr
and Howard Baughman to be the only two councilmen
to openly vote to violate the
First Amendment rights of our
citizens.)
You also remember when
Howard Baughman and Marty Mohr illegally placed Jerrold Albrecht
in a seat at the council
table without even a vote.
Albrecht still doesn’t believe he was properly
placed on council; he
mentioned this five months later, after he had been voting on legislation
by following the
instructions of Mohr and Baughman.
It is widely believed that these four
councilmen (Mohr, Baughman, Albrecht, Malone)
are doing the work of Clay Johnson (Martings
SOGP) and Neal Hatcher, (Eminent
Domain)
with an assist from the paid for Mayor, Jim Kalb.
You suggest or predict that
the unelectable Marty Mohr has been ordered by his handlers to
miss meetings so he will be
declared ineligible to continue as Sixth Ward Council Ward
Councilman.
Then David Malone, Howard Baughman,
Jerrold Albrecht and Mike Mearan will legally or
illegally get Will Mault
placed in the Sixth Ward Council seat. As an incumbent councilman
Mault’s chances of election
will be greatly enhanced.
So, with your experience with the immorality and
lack of scruples of this gang,
your prophecy is well founded. You are only one of thousands of citizens who do
not trust the city council to represent the people.
In my opinion, you have revealed the game plan of our local Evil Empire builders
for the fall election in the Sixth Ward. If these acts you have predicted
come to pass
we shall know you as a prophet.
If I were a wagering man, I would place my money on
your perceptions of the plans
of the unelected power brokers of this city who are
organized to continue stealing from
the honest citizens by controlling the members of
the city council.
William Sydney
Porter
The writings you read above
were copied from the Sentinel Forum.
http://com2,runboard,com/bsentinelforum You
may write your news or opinions on the
forum.
Where have you been? Two meetings in a row! Who pray tell is representing all those good
Now we know you are not running for another term so are you getting ready to resign and
Now it was reported that a virtual stranger to our bi-monthly get togethers came and
This is not very nice of you boys. But when the H-ll have you ever played nice?
By Rebel62
246
Since there is no provision on that in Section 3 of the City Charter, it seems that there might
But then again on that other approach you or someone said, about informing the people, etc.
Hey would you mind posting these landmines or IED's like this earlier in the evening?
Good thinking Rebel:
You are an experienced council watcher. You know them. In fact, two years ago, you and
It is widely believed that these four councilmen (Mohr, Baughman, Albrecht, Malone)
So, with your experience with the immorality and lack of scruples of this gang,
In my opinion, you have revealed the game plan of our local Evil Empire builders
If I were a wagering man, I would place my money on your perceptions of the plans
COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY, JULY 09,
2007
was PEACEFUL - COUNCILMAN MARTY MOHR MISSING
AGAIN
FILTHY DISGUSTING COURTROOM
DEPLORED
BY CITIZENS
MAYOR STILL EVADING AND LYING
ABOUT WHO HE INTENDS TO SELL
PRESENT SITE TO WHEN CITY HALL IS MOVED
TO NEW
BUILDING
New building not wanted, not needed by citizens, it is part of
a
gigantic new rip-off that will make Martings Swindle look
small-time.
City Council was quiet for the second straight time. The Mayor and most of the
Councilmen
try to behave with good manners and they attempt to appear
more sophisticated and proper
when they face citizens with higher intelligence and/or
higher education. Most
councilmen
hold wealthy and/or educated/intelligent people in great
awe.
Our Sixth Ward
Councilman Marty Mohr was missing from the meeting for two times in a
row.
Our mendacious Mayor
Jim Kalb gave his usual mumbling evasive replies to citizens’
inquiries.
Bill Shope of Sciotoville Community Schools was there as the
transfer of Allard Park to East High
School was passed by a 5-0
vote..
Jan Broughton
of Portsmouth City Schools (PCS) was there to help rush the passage of an
ordinance to vacate City alleys and streets for the site of
the Ten Million PCS Sports Area.
President Baughman
explained that the ordinance was not ready to be voted on, but would
be
on the agenda two weeks from now.
Inside sources told this reporter that a former
attorney/councilman has threatened suit if the ordinance is
not legally done.
Favorable acceptance of readings on nearly 12 items by
Council President Baughman moved
the long program speedily
along.
There was some discussion about farm animals living in the
city limits. Health
Commissioner
Peggy Burton was her usual agreeable self. No one spoke angrily and it is
believed this issue
will be peacefully agreed upon by all concerned.
George Horsley spoke in favor of the purchase of above
ground gasoline storage tank for
the use of city vehicles.
Fourth Ward Council Candidate Wayne Nichols spoke concerning
the Energy Services
Agreement with Ameresco, Inc., which passed with 5-0
vote.
Citizens spoke out about the disgraceful lack of
maintenance at City Hall.
The City Council meets in the Municipal Court Room at City
Hall. During tonight’s
meeting Second Ward Council Candidate Austin Leedom spoke of
the long neglect
of
the city building and particularly of the Municipal Court Room where the
Honorable
Judge Russell Kegley and his staff must hold court The Judge himself, has
appeared in
Council and implored the City to repair the court room which
has been allowed to leak
for many years resulting in plaster falling from the ceiling
and the walls. The Council
and
the Mayor ignored the Judge’s pleas to better the
disgraceful appearance. and conditions
of
this deplorable area. The
Judge was ignored by the Council and the Mayor; they show
little respect for the Court, the law, the citizens and
themselves.
The old, filthy ragged carpet on the floor, the falling
plaster and the unpainted ceiling and
walls are disgraceful.
One court employee told this reporter that they felt ashamed to
have
their Judge forced to work in such sorry conditions, and
they felt especially embarrassed
when they had out-of town visitors, lawyers and other
dignitaries visit the courtroom.
If
the citizens of this city will only view this dirty, nasty courtroom, few
of them will be willing
to
give this present administration even one dime for a new building when
they see how the
poorly the present building has been cared
for.
The leaking roof was repaired recently due to the actions of
appointed First Ward Councilman
Michael Mearan, and, at a cost of less than ten percent of what Mayor Jim Kalb had reported
it
would cost. Lawyer Mearan has
practiced law in this sorry looking room for many years and
was disgusted with the appearance of the room, as all
citizens of Portsmouth should be.
The present Council under the leadership of Kalb/Baughman
want to put the few remaining
real estate taxpayers in debt for the next twenty years to
pay for a building we don’t need, and
do
not want so Mayor Kalb can sell this building site to a
developer.
In his final words at
the Council meeting Mayor Jim Kalb again refused to identify the
person(s) he intends
to sell our present City Hall site to when he and Baughman get the
city government moved
to the new $11.4 million dollar building on the crowded Adelphia
building site on busy
Washington Street.
Written and posted by Austin Leedom at 1:40 a.m Tuesday,
July 10,
2007
COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY, JULY 09,
2007
was PEACEFUL - COUNCILMAN MARTY MOHR MISSING
AGAIN
FILTHY DISGUSTING COURTROOM
DEPLORED
BY CITIZENS
MAYOR STILL EVADING AND LYING
ABOUT WHO HE INTENDS TO SELL
PRESENT SITE TO WHEN CITY HALL IS MOVED
TO NEW
BUILDING
New building not wanted, not needed by citizens, it is part of a
gigantic new rip-off that will make Martings Swindle look small-time.
City Council was quiet for the second straight time. The Mayor and most of the Councilmen
try to behave with good manners and they attempt to appear more sophisticated and proper
when they face citizens with higher intelligence and/or higher education. Most councilmen
hold wealthy and/or educated/intelligent people in great
awe.
Our Sixth Ward Councilman Marty Mohr was missing from the meeting for two times in a row.
Our mendacious Mayor
Jim Kalb gave his usual mumbling evasive replies to citizens’
inquiries.
Bill Shope of Sciotoville Community Schools was there as the transfer of Allard Park to East High
School was passed by a 5-0
vote..
Jan Broughton of Portsmouth City Schools (PCS) was there to help rush the passage of an
ordinance to vacate City alleys and streets for the site of the Ten Million PCS Sports Area.
President Baughman explained that the ordinance was not ready to be voted on, but would
be on the agenda two weeks from now. Inside sources told this reporter that a former
attorney/councilman has threatened suit if the ordinance is
not legally done.
Favorable acceptance of readings on nearly 12 items by Council President Baughman moved
the long program speedily
along.
There was some discussion about farm animals living in the city limits. Health Commissioner
Peggy Burton was her usual agreeable self. No one spoke angrily and it is believed this issue
will be peacefully agreed upon by all concerned.
George Horsley spoke in favor of the purchase of above ground gasoline storage tank for
the use of city vehicles.
Fourth Ward Council Candidate Wayne Nichols spoke concerning the Energy Services
Agreement with Ameresco, Inc., which passed with 5-0
vote.
Citizens spoke out about the disgraceful lack of maintenance at City Hall.
The City Council meets in the Municipal Court Room at City Hall. During tonight’s
meeting Second Ward Council Candidate Austin Leedom spoke of the long neglect
of the city building and particularly of the Municipal Court Room where the Honorable
Judge Russell Kegley and his staff must hold court The Judge himself, has appeared in
Council and implored the City to repair the court room which has been allowed to leak
for many years resulting in plaster falling from the ceiling and the walls. The Council and
the Mayor ignored the Judge’s pleas to better the disgraceful appearance. and conditions
of this deplorable area. The Judge was ignored by the Council and the Mayor; they show
little respect for the Court, the law, the citizens and
themselves.
The old, filthy ragged carpet on the floor, the falling plaster and the unpainted ceiling and
walls are disgraceful. One court employee told this reporter that they felt ashamed to have
their Judge forced to work in such sorry conditions, and they felt especially embarrassed
when they had out-of town visitors, lawyers and other
dignitaries visit the courtroom.
If the citizens of this city will only view this dirty, nasty courtroom, few of them will be willing
to give this present administration even one dime for a new building when they see how the
poorly the present building has been cared
for.
The leaking roof was repaired recently due to the actions of appointed First Ward Councilman
Michael Mearan, and, at a cost of less than ten percent of what Mayor Jim Kalb had reported
it would cost. Lawyer Mearan has practiced law in this sorry looking room for many years and
was disgusted with the appearance of the room, as all
citizens of Portsmouth should be.
The present Council under the leadership of Kalb/Baughman want to put the few remaining
real estate taxpayers in debt for the next twenty years to pay for a building we don’t need, and
do
not want so Mayor Kalb can sell this building site to a
developer.
In his final words at the Council meeting Mayor Jim Kalb again refused to identify the
person(s) he intends to sell our present City Hall site to when he and Baughman get the
city government moved to the new $11.4 million dollar building on the crowded Adelphia
building site on busy
Washington Street.
Written and posted by Austin Leedom at 1:40 a.m Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007 at 5:00 a.m. by Austin Leedom
Mike Mearan, and President Howard Baughman pressure other councilman
for the $10.4 Million Dollar Adelphia Building. Big real estate
tax to be added on for home owners. Purpose of new building is to make present
city building site available to mysterious developer - latest information
indicates secret buyer is affiliated with Mafia. Is it Rocco Castellano?
Jim Kalb admits talking with "interested" persons but refuses to
identify who it is that wants our land. Mike Mearan has reputation
as being an attorney for organized criminals. Remember?
He defended Rocco Castellano! Tell the public who you are really working
for, Mayor Kalb. Who wants the site our City Hall sets on?
See Courts for more on Michael Mearan trying to free notorious child sex predator.
Written by Austin Leedom, Tuesday June 26, 2007 at 2:30 a.m.
The Monday night council meeting, June 25, 2007 at
the
Portsmouth City Building was not so hot as last
week when
citizens sweltered in punishing heat.
The atmosphere was greatly improved; boisterous
Sixth Ward
Councilman Marty Mohr was missing, City Police
Chief Charles L. Horner was missing from his usual
intimidation
perch near the entrance door and Mayor James D.
Kalb was
in attendance again after an unexplained absence at
last meeting.
The meeting proceeded peacefully under the direction of Council President
Howard Baughman (also known as Gavel Man.) He only
had occasion to hammer one citizen down. Citizen Harald Daub was
speaking his allotted five minutes when Mayor Jim
Kalb rudely
interrupted Mr. Daub. President Baughman’s gavel smashed
down
as a warning to Daub to not be interrupted
again.
This is standard practice as Mr. Daub’s talks are
often stopped
by Councilman Marty Mohr. Mohr wasn’t present to
interrupt Mr. Daub’s talk so Mayor Kalb picked up
the torch
to silence the
citizen.
There were many dignitaries from Sciotoville School
and
Portsmouth City Schools present. The Sciotoville School was
granted the gift of Allard Park to use for
recreation and Portsmouth Schools were awarded a resolution for vacation
of alleys and streets to aid in the construction of their sports complex.
It is not known why Police Chief Horner was absent
from the meeting.
Perhaps the Mayor ordered him to stay away and out of view of the
important school
personnel that were expected to attend.
He misses few meetings as he has appointed himself the duty of attempting to intimidate citizens by glowering at all who approach the speakers stand to talk. Many times Chief Horner is accompanied by another police officer. He has won notoriety for Portsmouth by bringing as many as five extra officers to a meeting;
at one council meeting he ran all citizens through
metal detection scanners before he allowed them into the
council hall. He wasn’t
really missed; the meetings run better without citizens having to face a
scowling armed intimidator.
Mayor James D. Kalb was welcomed back by the Council, and demonstrated unusual alertness by staying awake throughout the meeting. All in all, it was
a very good council meeting.
Written by Austin Leedom at 2:10 a.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
A Hot Time At City Council Meeting Monday Night June 11, 2007
A full house at City Council sweated in the over-hot meeting room
as they listened to more than thirty people ask questions, make complaints
and voice comments about proposals to forbid certain animals from residing in the
city, speak against plans to use the old auto dealer building on
Washington Street as a new city hall and question many other subjects.
The City Health Department is doing well in their goal of cleaning up
Portsmouth. Many persons spoke of dangerous structures that should
be demolished and the dangers of rats, raccoons, opossums and particularly
cats. One lady said cats were increasing in great numbers and are becoming
a problem.
There were many comments, mostly good about the City Health Department.
The Best Talk of The Evening came from Brenda, a well-spoken 55-year-old
lady from Milldale Street in Sciotoville. She said an abandoned house in her area
was a home for rats and a great number of roaches who invaded
neighboring residences. Brenda related that recently, while investigating a noise
in the old abandoned building she found a big rat being devoured by a hungry cat.
Brenda was pleased the Health Department officers had provided and placed
poisons to kill the roaches and rats but the war against the varmints and roaches
is not over. Standing at the speakers stand Brenda slowly unfolded a large paper
napkin and displayed a giant size roach that had met a sudden death when it
immigrated from the neighboring house into Brenda’s home. This bit of
show-and-tell created a lighter moment in the very hot meeting room and citizens
were grateful for the break from the monotony of words they had been silently enduring.
After the meeting, Brenda told us that if she can catch one of the rats she
will bring the rat with her to the next meeting.
Destruction of the "bad" house is expected soon. By Austin Leedom at 3:05 p.m.
Tuweday, June 12, 2007.
Next Meeting Tuesday 29 May, 2007 at 6:00
p.m.
CLAY JOHNSON’S PLAN TO RENOVATE MARTINGS
BUILDING ENDORSED BY MAYOR JIM KALB –
NO CHOICE FOR TAXPAYERS.
This article by Austin Leedom at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday,
August 9, 2005
At the City Council meeting held Monday,August 8, 2005 Mayor
Jim Kalb had two policemen on hand for protection to control
the angry citizens who protested against Kalb's eminent domain plans
and against the renovation of the infamous Marting Building.
Mayor Jim Kalb is determined to put City Offices in the old
Marting building and is equally determined that the citizens
will not have any vote on the matter. Kalb is lying to us
about the cost.
All the citizens will get is a giant increase in taxes.
