It appears Marshand Crisler is back at the public trough for some more gummint grub. The Jackson City Council approved on February 17 a $50,000 contract with his company to help reorganize the billing of the water-sewer department.
The resolution states:
WHEREAS, the City of Jackson wishes to retain the services of a local consultant familiar with City processes for the reorganization project to act as a coordinator, point of contact, and preparer of job analyses, including salary studies, for the new positions and the re-aligned current positions in the Water-Sewer Business Administration; and
WHEREAS, Crisler Clear Consulting, LLC, wl1ose principal place of business is located at 5346 Famsworth Drive, Jackson, MS 39204, proposes to provide these services in support of the reorganization of the Water-Sewer Business Administration Division at a cost not to exceed $50.000.00....
Kingfish note: Well, well, well, our favorite flunkie is back. Last seen running Jackson finances into the ground in the previous administration, Mr. Crisler somehow got in good with the Lumumba administration. He is frankly, one of the dumbest people to ever populate Jackson municipal government. No Lee Unger or Rick Hill is he. A shame the City Council didn't bother to perform some due diligence such as asking for a list of clients, references, and other basic information but that is probably asking for too much of this crew.
It could be argued that anyone who had a hand in the debacle that is the Jackson water/sewer billing system should be banned from ever getting not so much as a penny from Jackson ever again. However, this is Jackson where the competent are trashed and the trash is exalted.
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So the city is going to pay $150 per hour to someone dumb enough to write the following (and I quote from the document):
“The City of Jackson is Mississippi’s State Capitol, and as such, is considered a municipal leader in innovation and quality public services. The City remains a State leader in its respective industries: government, education, and healthcare.”
Does he have any experience with this? Is he a CPA? If not, why hire him? So the engineering firm was hired to do the same thing? I smell a rat.
It is called upward failure.
In THAT he is expert!
Antard is buying Crisler's non-involvement in the mayoral Dem primary.
Nine "WHEREAS" words again, along with Marshand Crisler thrown in the mix.
This was what the City Council was concerned about on Feb 17, 2021 ?
The very day the winter storm paralyzed Jackson.
Jackson government showing it's normal priorities.
Almost 5 days later, and much of the city hasn't been able to flush their toilets since last week, but the City gave Marshand Crisler a $50,000 contract in the middle of a crisis ? ? ?
( I bet he also received a very nice engraved plaque that glorifies said deal).
But that's the crew Jacksonians elected.
Kingfish,
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
5346 Famsworth (Farnsworth) Drive, Jackson, MS 39204 ??? He lives in the 39211.
http://www.co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/apps/landroll_detail.asp?ID=551-136
Nice house.... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5346-Farnsworth-Dr-Jackson-MS-39211/3057289_zpid/
6:10 nailed. A year ago Crisler was making the usual rounds checking pulses. Having found the pulses were serious against Antar but lukewarm with respect to him, he cut a deal.
Having said that, watch this contract as well as any of Antar’s water/sewer solutions. It’s easy to dump on predecessors (everyone since Adam and Eve has done that), but his solutions increasingly mirror those of Yarber, his Daddy, Harvey or Frank - including some of the same grifters.
So, to recap: The city pays this clown fifty thousand, then pays a firm to do the work and pays them twice that amount. Crony-ism at its worst.
Why didn't they just hire the engineering firm and pay Marshand 45K with a white pickup to drive and call him a Project Manager?
I am thoroughly familiar with this man by way of his not so illustrious career in the National Guard. He is totally incompetent.
Marcus Wallace, the Madison living Mayor of Edwards, would have done the job for half.
PAGING SHAD
"The Jackson City Council approved on February 17 a $50,000 contract with his company to help rearrange the deck chairs..."
There. Fixed it for you.
February 22, 2021 at 7:49 AM
I have often wondered about higher ups in the Mississippi National Guard. I wonder if some of the officers were/are promoted for their ability or due to politics. The military is no place for politics and popularity contests, but I am probably being naive.
On the primary stump, Antard will now throw DPW workers under the bus by alluding that Jackbekistan's water woes are in part caused by a DPW that needs to be reformed and reorganized. He'll do anything and say anything to save his skin. Just watch.
" Antard will now throw DPW workers under the bus by alluding that Jackbekistan's water woes are in part caused by a DPW that needs to be reformed and reorganized. He'll do anything and say anything to save his skin."
And the those poor employees should respond to the lil' Mayor.
Work slow down in the Mayor's gated neighborhood perhaps ?
Supporting Stokes claims of the Mayor's failures in Ward 3 perhaps ?
The possibilities are endless.
These workers have been busting their asses in this weather . . . just to get toilets flushing again.
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