Jackson Jambalaya

Maybe they can't pay suppliers because they never paid for the software. :P

It's the SODIR defense.


AKA - Some Other Dude Is Responsible

Resident of the burbs here.

My life would be easier if I could relocate my family to Jackson. Our professional and social lives are centered there. There are even attractive neighborhoods and houses.

But I don't see city administrators becoming competent any time soon.i only see continued failure, bickering and an increased tax burden on the few successful residents.

I wish it was different.

@11:13am - and takes all the credit when something goes right.

So we have a minority run city that will not pay its minority contractors. If this were a majority white run city that did not pay its minority contractors somebody would be hollering racism.

The money isn't there. We can speculate on where it went, but it just isn't there. Maybe Shad can take a break from writing ridiculous OP Eds and busting small time hourly workers, to instead roll up his sleeves and focus on some truly meaningful work.

Get it through your head. Mr White can't investigate a city on his own as he can a county. Barred by law and the MML likes it that way.

Funny how there is never a problem with the city employees paychecks. That seems to work flawlessly.

But Socrates always gets paid on time, as does the "big guy." Right?

Maybe we need to fire Malembeka...

Is there a standing memo, perhaps unwritten, that the mayor gets a commission commitment from a vendor before it's invoices are paid?

It's actually no different than personal finances. It's a matter of priorities. The mayor and his administration do not hold the nuts and bolts of ordinary city management as a first priority. They don't hire and fire that way. He made it no secret when he announced that Jackson would be the most radical city in the country...not the best run, not the most efficient, the best quality of life, the safest, the cleanest, most prosperous....but the MOST Radical. That's the priority in hiring, firing and management. No Wonder the results.

Maybe when the members return from this months luxury “seminar”, if there is any money left, they can pay some of the bills.

Hizzoner's city credit card statement gets paid on time, right?

I bet Sista Rukia's invoices get paid on time, right?

I bet the "IT" payment for Richards (60K$) disposal gets payed on time.
wink wink

Where has all the money gone
Long time passing
Where has all the money gone
Long time ago
Someone stole it
It's all gone
When will we ever learn

I bet if you broke down invoices by "those owed" and "those paid" and dissected it by the demographics of ownership or campaign contributions, it would be very telling.

WAPT 16 says $1.8M city invoices total are due, including past due, presumably. City is struggling to perform any function of city management, whatsoever. I'm happy Banks has asserted his authority to show this mayor for the wastrel he is, but note Virgi still making excuses for him.

"The order includes a provision saying the council would use its statutory authority to freeze the salaries of employees responsible for fulfilling the order if they failed to comply."

DOES THE COUNCIL ALSO HAVE STATUTORY ATHORITYY TO FREEZE SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTUALLY DOING THE JOB THEY ARE HIRED TO DO?????

If you watch the WAPT story closely in the first minute, it counts unpaid and paid to get that amount. The WLBT story is just unpaid.

They can't perform basic city services. Yet they will all get re-elected and employees aren't held accountable. That is how it works.

Is Jxn Water going to cut off the City's water for failing to pay those thousands of dollars in unpaid water and sewer bills?

$495K is for the zoo's unpaid water bill. Haven't we seen this before?

KF I think you intended that the WLBT story was just the 'past due', whereas WAPT is total unpaid, including past due.

I wonder if Banks used similar threat, could it generate missing crime stats?

3:29pm
Banks and Stokes will work against re-electing this fake mayor.

@3:42 PM - Like!

The sooner the city is forced into bankruptcy the better. Then the court can appoint some adults to clean up this mess.

This isn't just City of Jackson. It is rampant in state and local government because there isn't any accountability or penalty for failing to pay. By statute, the government only has to pay 1.5% interest on late payments and, even though the statute says they "shall" pay this penalty, none of them do. If you demand they pay it, they'll tell you to sue them for it, and then you'll be black-balled from ever doing business with state and local government again. Businesses have to borrow money at the prime interest rate for their line of credit (currently 8.5%) to sell goods to the government. The government should have to pay the same rate when they fail to pay for those goods. I never understood how this wasn't an unconstitutional taking. They can bankrupt a business for fun with absolutely no consequences.

"She’s concerned how the city’s failure to make those payments impacts minority-owned firms...."

And THAT is the bottom line only reason this has gotten attention.

If they white-owned, fuck 'em.

Chowke's bills for his junkets, including Canada and Florida are paid immediately, right?

Richards is paid on time, right?

Socrates is paid on time, right?

"but note Virgi still making excuses for him"

The Councilwoman is so eat up with the woke mind virus she wouldn't dare hold the Mayor accountable. In her warped brain, It'd be some sort of white privilege to do so

5:18. A more dissappointing council person is nowhere to be found.
We don't know what happened to her. She fooled us completely.

Virgi, an obsessed Lil Choke apologist, needs some mansplaining at home about financial management and due diligence from her husband, a partner/principal in a prestigious accounting firm.

This is so typical of the Antar administration.

Regarding Virgi, she's another example of why the people deserve
who they vote for ...

Not one person in the City of Jackson has a clue as to if the City can cover the checks that are written.

@4L19 - lets be honest here; totally honest.

The statutory interest payment is 1.5% but that is 1.5% per month, equating to 18% a year. Your comparison to the 8.5% (of whatever) businesses have to borrow at is an annual rate, so in proper bitching mode it is ok to equate two different numbers. But in honest commenting, you should compare apples to apples.

And the state does pay that interest rate if they ever have a late payment - and do so without being 'told' to do it. I know, having received a few of those payments. (Granted, they often take 95% of the allocated 45 days to pay, but at least you know when the payment is going to arrive in your account.) Because the state takes on its responsibility, vendors don't mind doing business with the state, in fact many solicit the business.

UNLIKE working for the City with Soul - Jackson. Many vendors refuse to respond to RFPs because they dont want to do business with the City. True also for contracts issued without a request. The ridiculous EBO requirements (paying some favored 'minority' contractor to do nothing but sign some papers, thus jacking up the cost) added to the fact that you don't get paid timely makes some ---- particularly in this market ----- pass up that 'opportunity'. But thats probably what the Mayor wants, cut out the competition so that the kush's favored few can pad their prices even more.

“Ignorant” means one doesn’t know, among many more things, how or why something has to be done in a timely fashion and yet has the capacity to gather information to come to a conclusion that, “Yes, I need to timely pay this invoice.”

“Stupid,” though, means it matters not whether a person gathers information from now till Hell freezes over, the mental acumen to come to a correct conclusion that “I need to timely pay this invoice” will not — cannot — happen ever.

Which one is it in this instance, then?

My company bids on government contracts statewide, but we don't even consider bidding, or otherwise working, for the City of Jackson. They are very difficult to work with and their reputation for very, very, delayed payments is well known. Definitely not worth the hassle.

" needs some mansplaining at home about financial management and due diligence from her husband, a partner/principal in a prestigious accounting firm.", that is a very misogynistic comment, but I like it.

9:11 'Granted, they often take 95% of the allocated 45 days to pay'

Some government payment systems are set up to handle a payment as follows:
Discount paid in 10 days, 5% discount then pay in 9 days.
No discount then pay 3 days before due.
This allows the agency to save 5% in some cases and hold money (collecting interest) until the last moment without getting a penalty. This is called managing your cash flow.

There are so many shits not being given in this day and age. Many do just enough to stay employed but everywhere I look, doing the work isn't actually a prerequisite to holding onto one's position and drawing a paycheck. No one is doing any long-range forecasting or putting the time and effort into looking down the road either in a professional sense of strategic planning or consequences (related or unrelated). I cannot join those ranks. A heavy work ethic was instilled in me by my mother throughout my life and I care every day about what I do and the effects I present to the organization. No wonder they pay me well and make an effort to keep me around. I wish more people could see the benefit of hard work and the rewards that it reaps. Many will only realize it once it's too late and they've obliterated their credibility. It's amazing to me how generations of younger folks have been cheated by their parents. What's happening with the COJ is a whole lot of that mixed with the desire to grift. We're in deep shit.

2:20 plus 1. I agree.