The Jackson City Council and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba will square off next week in Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson's court over the minutes of the City Council meetings.
The scrum will take place on March 31 at 9:30 AM.
Mayor Lumumba filed an emergency petition for writ of mandamus in Hinds County Circuit Court Tuesday against the City Council. Mayor Lumumba claims the City Council has not approved the minutes since September 2021:
5. Despite numerous requests by the Mayor since the beginning of his tenure as duly elected mayor for a timely presentation of minutes in accordance with Miss. Code Ann. §21-8-17*, the City Council's consistent failure to timely present its minutes to the Mayor, and to adopt and approve its minutes, remains an ongoing issue.
The Mayor claims he needs the minutes to perform his job. He also argues he can not reject or approve any "actions taken by the City Council without being presented the minutes."
Meanwhile, Special Chancellor Jess Dickinson still has not ruled on the motions to intervene filed by Richard's Disposal and Waste Management despite his promise to rule by Tuesday night after holding a hearing Monday in Lumumba v. Jackson City Council.
City Council members Virgi Lindsay, Bryan Grizzell, and Angelique Lee filed a motion to dismiss themselves from the controversy since they have repeatedly voted to award the infamous garbage contract to Richard's Disposal.
32 comments:
Oddly enough Mr Mayor ...you ain't the only one in the county that needs these minutes to legally do stuff. So I guess Ellis Ave changing to Bobby Rush is off the table.
What will it mean for either side to prevail? I mean, really, it's a 3-Ring Circus and there's always another elephant and two clowns waiting just outside the main tent.
When you're spending somebody else's money on legal proceedings, who cares how long it goes on?
Great! Run the government by court decree!
Jackson is so lost with these knuckleheads!
Will this soap opera be on the networks or just cable?
Netflix should film the leadership of Jackson's shenanigans for their next hit series!
So how is it he has been able to do his job, without the minutes, since Sept 21?
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If Judge Faye rules the city council's minutes to be now defective then Judge Dickenson's business will not dispose of the matter at all. But what happens when that shoe drops? Will the mayor and Richard's have their emergency they've been depending on? Obviously this thing is becoming problematic or Judge Dickenson would have already ruled. Emergency March 1? The plot thickens.
Junior OWNS Grizzell.
On April 1 y'all will be fools for electing these knuckle-heads. No water, no sewage treatment, highest murder rate in the U.S., potholes with zip codes, and now the garbage will be piling up, but I heard though the grapevine that garbage could be dropped off on Eastmont Place.
4:01 Not March 1 you should say April 1.
Guaranteed that garbage gets dropped outside that gate if it doesn't get picked up.
Attn 4:21 PM I have a good friend living in a nice house in north Jackson. Of course, to visit him, I have to have a code to enter. My friends occasionally have to visit me in Ridgeland to bathe due to the Jackson water fiasco. They live in an area reminding me of the White House, requiring entrance codes. Their annual fees for the privilege of living there are phenomenal, and I am not talking about their Hinds county and Jackson taxes. If you are confused, just call the hinds county tax collector and find out how much your car, real estate, and various other taxes are versus the taxes in Madison County.
And we used to laugh at Pelahatchie ...
City council should tell the Mayor, they’ll provide the minutes when he does the crime stats…
An the council picks Sam Beagley to defend them? Really? The same dude who swore he would unseat Archie? And they pick him because he changed 250/hr. We’re doom.
Peterson didn’t recuse? Shocker. Not smart politics.
@4:21 and 5:36....absolutley!!!!!
@744, Begley did it all right in his effort to unseat Archie, he just drew an incompetent Judge who doesn't give a damn about following the law.
Not defending the idea of Council hiring Begley, but his loss in Archie case is not one that can be hung on his legal work.
How can any public body (council, board, otherwise) not realize that minutes have not existed over a long period of time? Something is afoot up in here.
Do you people really think nobody, for two or more years, has said, "Please refer to the minutes"?
Do you people really think nobody, for two or more years, has said, "I'm not sure what the paper (or WLBT) says about that vote is really what the vote was. Let me check the minutes."
Do you people really think no president or member of Council, for two or more years, has uttered the words, "Let the minutes reflect..."?
One little problem facing the City Council in the Circuit Court lawsuit. There are three Council members who are going to run to the Mayor every time Begley does something or discusses matters with his client, the City Council members.
Good point, KF. Maybe that’s why those three want to be dismissed from the case. They know the mayor will pump them for information, thereby waiving the attorney-client privilege, and they can’t tell his no, for whatever reason.
That is the other case.
This is all so confusing. How about y'all just fire all of them (mayor, council, attorneys) and start all over, like today, right?
So are we going to conduct city business by court order now?
Shoot up here amongst us, one of us has got to have some relief
If the mayors argument holds in circuit court, wouldn’t the claims docket also be a part of those missing orders? If so, how were people getting paid. You can’t have it both ways.
City Council attorney and WLBT or WAPT should now, today, ask Richard's where his office, equipment, trucks, employees, dumping location and maintenance garage are and photographically verify such, because it appears all Richard's has is some space (corner of a friend's shed?) he's calling an office and "trucks being outfitted in New Orleans"?
Politics as usual. BORRRRRRRING.
KF, you wanna be a politician so bad. Well, you’re not good enough for the white votes and not hood enough for the black votes.
You’re stuck in the middle, like a pussy.
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@3:17 PM
Agreed, although the FEDS have all the time and
Money in the world
Nice of Melvin to stick up for his corrupt boss at 9:39am.
In his defense, he must have been too busy doing damage control to pipe up sooner.
Maybe he is finally earning a paycheck after all!
@3:59 PM
You forgot the all important barf bag!!!
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