The city of Jackson issued the following statement.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba on Friday accepted the resignation of Director of Parks and Recreation, Ison Harris, Jr.
Harris served the City of Jackson for eight years. He thanked the Mayor for the opportunityt To serve and said he planned on spending more time with his family.
“I want to first thank the Mayor for the opportunity to serve the City of Jackson. I’ve served as Director of Parks and Recreation for the past several years and I’ve loved every moment
of it,” Harris said. "For the past 8 years, I’ve given my all to the department but not I’m ready to step down and allow someone else to have the opportunity to lead Parks and Rec."
“I truly am appreciative to my staff for all of their hard work over the past several years,” Harris continued. "I respect their dedication to this city and the residents that we serve.
I am truly indebted to them…Right now, I look forward to spending more time with my family. I’m also excited about the next chapter of my life.”
Mayor Lumumba accepted the resignation and expressed gratitude to Mr. Harris for his public service to the city. In that time frame, Mr Harris has made numerous contributions to the Parks and Recreation Department and City of Jackson that have not gone unnoticed.
“Mr. Harris handled the department with integrity and dedication. He has made great strides during his tenure here to consistently and tirelessly reach out to the community
and hold events that uplift our Youth and others, as well as significantly upgrade our City’s golf parks and the Jackson Zoo, among many other things,” Lumumba said. “He accepted these challenges amid budget constraints and we are grateful for his service in making the city a better place. I wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
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All of these resignations, in addition to Rukia's loss and the City Council's actions are indicative of the tide that's turning in this City. The successes we're seeing with several aspects of city-related business all exclude the mayor and leave him looking like the unpopular kid at school that no one is telling where the party is anymore. The pendulum is swinging the other way finally.
"...he planned on spending more time with his family."
Translation: "I am jumping off this sinking ship."
You couldn’t pay me enough to be subordinate to Antard and his clown show. Imagine watching that simp getting verbally stripped down by Sista Rukia or Omari Ph.D and then having to take orders from that manchild. He’s more pathetic than Barrack “Cream Pie” Obama or Bennie “man boobs” Thompson.
I'm thinking that this guy would've preferred better references to his legacy than the zoo and the golf course.
"golf parks"???
Jackson had a parks director? Could have fooled me.
Another one bites the dust
Maybe Woods will be able to handle this one.
Word on the street is that they are appointing - you guessed it Steven L. Hutton as the replacement for the new Director.... Please Tell me where the Civil Service Law allows this? A convicted felon who will, by way of being the director of the entire Parks and Recreation division, have access to things such as Youth sporting activities Girls and Boys alike- be allowed to even be a considerable option. And we won't even dare to mention the money laundering and kickbacks fake LLC companies and the list goes on and and on..
You looking for Parks and Recreation ….got to Baton Rouge . Acres and Acres of parks and every activity represented. They even have Croquet courts.
Did I read that right? He upgraded the zoo? I suppose he was also responsible for the hideous mess at Smith Park.
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What exactly did he do? City pools are in shambles, grass not cut in parks, zoo is a mess, playgrounds aren't safe.
Oh yeah, they renamed the golf course. How racist.
Another director resigns? Rats leaving the ship?
I wonder how many more rats will jump ship knowing this administration is going down in flames.
do other cities have "park rangers" which were listed in CoJ's new budget?
I’m looking forward to seeing how they work the mayor’s vision into the job description for this one.
Since it would be public information, what, exactly was Stephen Hutton convicted of and what sentence did he serve?
Don't tell me to research it and report back. I would not know where to begin. Whoever posted that information has it on the tip of his tongue and can save us the time.
He left everything in tip top shape. Grove park looks like a tornado went through there. Battlefield park did have a tornado go through there. The trees still have not been cleaned up. Can Wingate put the parks and recreation under Ted also.
"When the captains start fleeing the battlefield, the general has lost the war."
- Me
Jackson has parks and recreation? What are they? Pistol ranges and self-defense classes to survive living in ‘The City With Soul’?
COJ Parks Department has during the Lumumba years has been stripped of employees & equipment. Its a shame that the remaining fine employees teceive so little support. I know the park in midcity has had picnic tables, garbage cans & playground equipment destroyed by the dope boys that operate their business in the park.
Just put a cone in it!
Since these things come in threes, let's move on to the zoo shut down.
KF: Speaking of Zoo, what is current status of Zoo funding if not included in budget. Confused why Council didn't vote on it as a budget item.
Shad, Shaggy, Scooby and the rest of team have already camped out in the Mystery Machine and investigated the zombie wasteland formerly known as Buddy Butts Park and the masked villian(s) are about to be revealed like an Arthur C. Clarke's episode of "Connections". Don't be surprised.
Chok's about to get himself another major award.
1:09 Google is your friend
https://www.wapt.com/article/former-mississippi-fair-commissioner-sentenced-after-pleading-guilty-for-prostitution-charge/37269003
Will there be a gala to celebrate this momentous inability to hire or retain employees?
Like the "We Aint Got No Water" celebration?
You don't have to research hard, KF did a couple articles on the bozo, but if you insist. He was convicted of pimping. Plead guilty and served a crap show sentence.
..”an evolving exodus in an evolving city..”
Lol trees haven't been picked up - but someone sure did get paid for doing it.
There is a search box in the upper right hand corner
@2:15 - I believe it's part of the Parks budget. WAPT article seemed misleading saying it wasn't mentioned in the budget. WLBT article said that the zoo was indeed being funded so I assume it's just buried in there with whatever they approved for Parks and Rec.
Anyone know where we can see a detailed copy of the final approved budget though? As in one that would go line by line for each department? Did not see that on the CoJ website, just the agenda for the meeting where they approved it. Surely it doesn't require a public records request to be able to see that, but nothing would surprise me in Jackson!
Maybe we can have listening sessions and then a celebration for all of the accomplishments in the parks department.
@11:03AM. I hear you and hope you’re on to something. But, Antard is about as shameless an SOB as I’ve ever seen. Just watch. He doesn’t give a damn about this city or the residents. He will always think he can hoodwink everybody and he counts on folks not paying attention. As long as he has a mailing address in the City of Jackson, my hope for the city is slim to none. He will gaslight his way to (a) taking credit for everything everybody else is doing and (b) blaming the whites for all the woes of Jackson. This is the man who can just held the first annual celebration of his biggest failure. It’s like he doesn’t feel humiliation despite being publicly humiliated at every turn. Repeatedly. Judge Wingate, the Special Chancellor, Ted Henifin, the Governor, the EPA, State Health, MEMA, MDEQ, Bennie T, the City Council, his own staff . . . he just pops right back up and comes back for more. His has hyperinflated ego sustains his alternate reality. It’s kinda scary.
I predict that someone is fixing to be arrested very soon on Federal charges at the City of Jackson,MS.
On the one hand, I can ask what difference does it make if the parks & rec director resigns. Then along comes Antar saying "Here, hold my beer."
Regarding the Pimping Charge, was he pimping or passing out hookers names and references. I too have
been trying to find out what actually happened, because I am the Nosiest Man Alive and to make sure I don't
do it too! Does anybody know the details of what he did?
Last one out please turn the lights out
Everyone is abandoning the S.S. Lumumba
You could have posted three links in the time it took you to write that, Cap'n.
This is why I don't contribute.
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Nor, using the search box, are there matches for Steven Hutton without the L.
Maybe you should learn how to use a search box. Just enter Hutton in the search box. Four stories will appear.
As for the other dude, sorry I didn't answer the question in the manner you wanted. Told y'all how to find the stories but I'm expected to do your homework for you. I should provide every old story upon demand to your satisfaction instead of pointing you towards the search box. Got it.
7:31, don’t fool yourself, you never had any intention of contributing, and decided that being taught how to use the search box is the excuse you will use to justify that decision you had already made. I chip in $20 every fund raising season so cheap-ass clowns like you can come here for free.
I can use the search box, but I cannot find the details of the crime. That’s what I want to know what actually happened such as if someone is charged with conspiracy that doesn’t tell me what happened.
It is hysterical to me that someone asks 'What did that dude do to get into trouble?', and EVERY response has taken the form of "Google is your friend". The closest anyone got was that it has something to do with hookers. Its like "hey man, do you know the score of the game last night", and the response being "you've got a DVR, watch it yourself. Do you honestly expect me to keep up with every detail of this world, so that you can just glide through life. What do you think I am, 'ESPN'?"
LOL.He asked for a short description of an event that you know about. Either answer him or don't say anything. Otherwise you look like an ass. And, there is no reason for you to respond to this post.
It is easy to see who lives in Jackson and who doesn't in these comments. I live across the street from a large park in my old childhood home and its great. For everyone's information, Parks & Recreation was the one department that did real work around the city. A mowing crew shows up every 2 or 3 weeks, and they even remove anything that is growing in the creek and ditches. They are fantastic about removing fallen trees within a week or two.
However, I found out what all those city lawyers do. There is a tree at one end of my street that fell from a neighbors yard about 9 months ago. It stretches from my neighbor's yard, across the street, and into the park. 9 months ago, Entergy had cut the part in the road and made a one-vehicle wide path through for their trucks. Since then nothing has happened. The neighbor told me that the city, not Parks & Rec., sent him a letter saying it was either his or Entergy's problem to clean up. I think the city is wrong on the law. There's no damage to the park. It would maybe take an hour to load it up.
Maybe you lay off the booze and do the job we pay you to blogger boy
...or a person could just use Google. You know, type in 'Jackson Jambalaya' or 'Kingfish', along with 'Mississippi', and the name you're looking for. I do it all the time. Why is this so difficult for some people? If I don't succeed with a site's internal search apparatus, I go to an Internet search engine.
Then again, some people are just deliberately obtuse.
Every credible search box will search first and last name entered. If this blog had a decent search box, the name Steven L. Sutton or Steven Sutton would have produced the desired results. Instead, we're supposed to figure out it's necessary to leave off the first name.
Once again, the King of Jackassery proves himself a jackass.
Instead of all the snyde, immature responses, how much easier would it have been to simply throw up a link. Nope, can't do that - That would make too fucking much sense.
Let's take the 'search' a step further. Steven L. Sutton, a felon, is mentioned as the replacement (see post at 11:38).
Using this blog's search feature provides a number of articles/threads for a Sutton, but an entirely different Sutton, one who is a judge, nothing about Steven Sutton. Well, maybe we should read every damned thread (a bunch of them) to try to find the right Sutton. Or is it Hutton (also mentioned above)?
"Word on the street is that they are appointing - you guessed it Steven L. Hutton as the replacement for the new Director.... Please Tell me where the Civil Service Law allows this?"
Civil Service Law? What the hell has this got to do with Civil Service or law, for that matter. There is no law regarding the hiring of a felon for a job with the city of Jackson. Civil Service, incidentally, is a division of a FEDERAL agency.
Kingfish loves conflict. And where none exists, he will create it. And that, my friends, is the bottom line.
The important thing is that he capitalized the 'y' in 'youth.'
I am laughing my ass off at the search box impaired people on this blog who seriously think there is a problem. By simply entering “Hutton” I found exactly what I wanted, yet some ass-clown says the search box is not “credible”, as if that was an actual adjective used for search boxes. Luddites such as these should maybe stick to forms of communication that involve an Etch-a-Sketch or crayons.
OMG!
Copy and paste this into the address field of your browser:
https://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/search?q=Hutton
If you don't know where the address field is, ask the nearest 12 year old.
If your 'google fu' is good then you know how searching just a last name may give different results than using both the first and last name.
Give it a spin with the last name Janus, and then try with the first and last name, Hugh Janus.
Nobody seems to know who he was pimping was it the ballerinas in the bunkhouse was it his wife? Was it some other horse what was going on?
I had a lot of interactions with Ison. He was a dedicated employee and did a great job. He will be missed.
He cared about the city and was responsive to the mayor, city council, and the public. Hope his replacement has similar characteristics.
Those four stories contain the court documents. He was arrested and indicted for pimping. We don't know many more details because since he pleaded guilty, not much was revealed.
Ison was a decent parks and recs director, considering what he had to work with. The draft 2022 audit shows he had the department operating in the black. I live near Parham Bridges park. His crews are out there on a regular basis cutting the grass as well as the grass on that triangular medium. I know he's consulted with Mr. Ford a few times.
As for BR. BREC has its own revenue stream of property taxes and is run by a board, not the city, although the Board does appoint a director.
A lot of posters here seem to be the ones who wanted others to give them the answers to the tests. Bunch of em.
Poster A: I don't like Mr. X because he's served time for a felony.
Poster B: Really, what crime did Mr. X commit, since you know?
Posters C, D, E, F: You stupid son-of-a-bitch. You expect Poster A to answer that question when you could spend your own time researching? Do a google search. Or take a chance on his crime being covered rite-cheer on this-here blog and search the blog. You stupid-son-of-a bitch.
Poster B: Sorry Fellas. Y'all are right. I should have known better. After searching, I got my answer and read several articles about his crime, his plea, his sentence and his family life.
Posters C,D,E,F: Oh yeah, well, what did you find out?
Poster B: You stupid sons-of-bitches. You expect me to tell you that? Do your own fucking research!
It was a simple question, seems to me, 8:58. I never knew it was a test. My bad.
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