Tuesday, March 20, 2012

City council discusses racism, baseball, nepotism, & grass-cuttin' yesterday (Video)

Here is the video of yesterday's work session of the Jackson City Council. The council discussed possible nepotism in awarding contracts for landscaping services. Councilman Whitwell asked for "assurance" in how the contracts are awarded and said he could not vote for claims while he had "concerns". He said he wanted to separate the grass and weed contracts out of the claims docket. The Mayor said they are still investigating and it takes time to do so. Councilman Yarber pointed out the size of the payments was not that much and the vendors could not afford to miss payments by the city. Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon said she was willing to vote for the claims docket and take a risk on a $1,300 payment.


Meeting starts at 4:00. Video is discussion of grants to various small businesses in Jackson.


Baseball discussion in this clip. Discussion about claim by Patton starts at 23:00. Mr. Patton is getting paid his $1,300. Discussion about alleged nepotism in awarding of grass and weed contracts starts at 24:00.


Discussion of grass and weed contracts continued.


Posted by Kingfish at 8:36 AM

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a feeling that all of the contracts at issue are way cheaper than Airwave's million dollar a year contract to cut grass for Hinds County.

March 20, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous said...

Didn't one of the leaders say baseball is a white man's sport? What is the problem?

March 20, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Shadowfax said...

Who sez baseball is a white man's sport? If it were, we would not have had to drop the name 'Dixie Youth' some years back.

March 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Anonymous said...

Dixie Youth is still going strong.

March 20, 2012 at 6:45 PM
KaptKangaroo said...

That has got to be the most bureaucratic discussion I've ever heard. Are they paid by the hour?

March 20, 2012 at 9:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Tony Yarber wants a boycott of all things Florida, so all you Jacksonians please cancel those Disney reservations.



http://www.wapt.com/news/30743636/detail.html

"We're saying no justice, no commerce," said Jackson City Councilman Tony Yarber.

Yarber made a plea to Jackson residents to boycott the state of Florida, saying that he wants to make a statement about the slain teen.

"If you've got trips planned to Florida, if you've got trips planned to Universal Studios, let's suspend those until there is justice served," Yarber said.

March 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Anonymous said...

Proof positive again that Yarber is a preening idiot.

I'm sure if a politician in another state was advocating the boycott of Jackson because of Dedmon's actions Yarber would be outraged.

March 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Anonymous said...

I'm sure if a politician in another state was advocating the boycott of Jackson because of Dedmon's actions Yarber would be outraged.

March 23, 2012 9:04 AM it could be that the Councilman has already concluded he's got nothing to lose from playing the race card because nobody comes to Jackson anyway.

Ironic that Mr. Race Card didn't urge viewers to specifically cancel, er, 'suspend' plans for trips to Disneyworld while shooting off his mouth on our local Disney-owned ABC affiliate.

March 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...

Tony Yarber is an empty suit.

Why isn't he on TV upset about another murder in So Jackson last night?

14th murder already this year.

Don't know how many Jackson murders there were in 2011 but at this rate there'll be 62 in 2012.

Where are the protests about crime here in Jackson Tony Yarber?

March 23, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Anonymous said...

Suggest everyone in the metro suspend spending any dinero in Jackson until the crime problem gets fixed.

What? Huh? Oh, you are right. That suspension has been going on for 30 years.

Go get 'em Tony. There are plenty of creds to spread around between you and Kenny and Chokwe.

March 23, 2012 at 9:56 AM

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