Jackson Jambalaya

How dare you interfere with the looting of the city!

I believe we are going to hear a "Yo Mama" from Mr. Stokes at any time now.

I do not have enough information to opine on who was right or wrong here. However, I have seen plenty of tantrums, and that was nowhere near one. I have heard plenty of raised voices, and that was a whisper compared to them. The mayor might well be in the wrong, but describing that clip as a tantrum or anything like it is evidence of a complete loss of objectivity.

Compare this clip to the gavel-banging disgrace that happened in the Board of Supervisors' meeting a couple weeks ago. That was a tantrum. This is not, and it discredits any substantive criticism of the mayor's performance to say it is.

Narcissism on steroids.

He is clearly upset because now he is going to have to answer to the sanitation syndicates who will not be too pleased about this.

Boy Mayor throws shade on "Best Practices", uses irrelevant straw man red herring distractions and his own spoiled impetuous obfuscation as a substitute for due diligence.

Virgi Lindwsay, a sycophantic suck up to Boy Mayor, conflates wordy rhetoric in the "Contract" with complexity: as one JJ commenter said yesterday, it was simply less service for more money! Easy Vote!

what a baby.

Zzzzzz.

Vernon Hartley for MAYOR! He said he wants transparency, lumbumba wants everything hidden.

Lumumba is full of shit. Waste Management is doing a great job. I feel so bad for what they have to deal with. People just dump trash out on the curb with no consideration for the workers.

Bravo to the Mayor!

The city council has had more than enough time to examine the RFP. Even if not, they should have already studied the subject of garbage collection and been familiar with the problems in their wards after all this time. It's a key city service. It's their job to know how it should be done.

They should have been specifically able to make recommendations for the RFP early and now describe any objections with this contract. That they didn't and couldn't tells me all I need to know.

And, public meetings are ridiculous as the RFP is key to the contract with any bidder. The public is not going to be able to discern the legal nuances in an RFP.

Since you are an attorney, KF, have you looked it over or had an attorney who specializes in government contracting have a look? There are more than a few in Jackson and they have a civic interest in the issue.

This exchange should have happened on the original contract with Waste Management decades ago. It didn't for a reason. Competitors for the contract withdrew from consideration for good reason.

We could have had,in the first contract, large enough garbage cans provided for all residences as happened in most urban areas at the time . And,those can available to the public are neither as large or as sturdy and Waste Management's cost ( if they still even offer to let you buy from them) is ridiculously non-competitive.

Poor people can't afford those large, oversized expensive garbage cans or multiple ones , especially when the collection company doesn't care about how your garbage can is thrown around and they have to be replaced every few years!

And, so yes, there is likely piled up garbage in poor communities.

Of course, now any bidders are going to be disadvantaged to some extent.

I'm so tired of Jackson's city council, with few exceptions like Melvin Priester, being "chair fillers".

Hartley's objection was typical " chair filler" politician BS.

The Mayor created much of this problem. It was the Mayor who told people last year they weren't going to terminate their services if they didn't pay their bills. Well guess what? Revenue went down to the point Jackson is only collecting 58% of its sanitation bills.

If the Mayor wants to double the rates, he needs to get his financial house in order, not balance his financial mismanagement on the backs of the poor people of Jackson.

Virgi is worthless and completely inaccessible in her public capacity (her frequently commenting attorney mouthpiece that makes tons of scratch off of the City of Jackson dating back years will say otherwise, but he's wrong). Her successor in her private sector is awful and one can only assume a puppet put in place by her highness. I guess chalk it up to people trying to climb into a cushy gig down the road beyond local politics, dunno, but this shithole isn't getting any better-----even with white people ostensibly in charge.

Oh Lord...
Don't those councilmen know how garbage fees are collected. Do they REALLY believe their constituents will be getting a bill in the mail?

ME...I'll be paying it and I won't notice it. I will be happy NOT to have garbage leaching into our damn water system !

Good Lord...why don't these yahoos on the council understand BY NOW how a city, any city functions? Lazy or dumb is the only explanation. It's their JOB!

@ 11:57

Hi chokwe

What these folks can’t afford is paying more money to compensate for a contract that you f$$$$d up to begin with AGAIN. Residents deserve better than this CONSTANT horse shit.

WATER

STREETS

SAFETY

If you watched the entire meeting, like I did the other day, you'd see Dr. Omari go into great detail how "seeing uniform waste containers lining the streets on pick up day is just a beautiful thing, so much better than black plastic bags or walmart bags or kroger bags...it's just beautiful". I reckon Virgi wanting to put the vote off for the next day so she could review the documents, then that getting shot down and she votes FOR the contract tells you those waste containers really were going to beautify the Greater Bellhaven CID where they will pick up the garbage 3 times a week. Chowke and his "covid garbage"-----everybody staying home so they are generating a whole lot more garbage. Yeah right. I guess it is true if you can't pitch your garbage one piece at a time out of your car window going down the road since you are spending more time at home. Ashby Foote quick calculations claims a 73% increase. Hey Ashby. Since they would be picking up the garbage once a week instead of twice, looks more like a 146% increase to me. Officer Obie needs a raise if he's gonna catch all these litterbugs. The City of Jackson is too far gone to rehabilitate itself.

You noticed.

I've got the contracts in front of me. Let's just say the addition of the requirement that the company sell all garbage cans to customers added to the monthly fees.

Covid sized loads of trash? Haha what does that even mean. Jive turkey with his buzzwords again. Surprised we didn't hear about the collective or some cooperative organic approaches. He's all about this buzzword catchy phrases until his pockets don't get lined, then he is a crybaby who lives behind a gate.

The public is not going to be able to discern the legal nuances in an RFP.

Basura.

I'm still confused as to why Virgi went on a long rant about how complicated and detailed the contract was and how she didn't have time to review it -- but then turns around and votes in favor of it.

She said at the end that this is a difficult and complicated decision. Is it really ?

So glad that adults run this city.

@12:41
She is a liberal woman absolutely riddled with white guilt.
She is paralyzed with fear of being called a racist and panic voted in favor.

11:57 -- Lets assume for the sake of argument that you are correct on this garbage deal (no pun intended), what would your's or Chokwe's answer be to the violent crime increase and record breaking murder rates each year he has been in office? I am genuinely curious. Chokwe is apparently tired of answering the question as evidenced in his presser a couple weeks ago when he told us just that...

If Lumumba wants to get something passed, he needs to make sure he has the votes before the meeting. He is an extremely poor politician/administrator. He has no obvious strengths other than his last name. Mayor, you're expecting the worth of your ideas to be self-evident, rather than working the halls and the streets. Your sales record is mediocre at this point.

And then there is your paranoid streak. Always hiding things when you ought to know that "with great power comes great publicity." Stay on him, Kingfish.

I've gotten to know our WM truck driver and he does a good job. I have called WM on a few occasions to report what a good job he and his team do. The operator takes note of it. I hate to think of those guys out of job. I love in the video a WM worker tried to talk to the council but Virgi shut him down saying "no public comments are allowed at this time". It'll be interesting to see who all from WM signs up the actual public comments in future meetings and what they say...and I bet most, if not all, voted for Lumumba not knowing his betrayal.

10:56: Using David Archie conduct as the benchmark sets the bar pretty low, doesn't it?

Execute Order 66

Who is the fool wearing the ball cap and his mask around his chin?

GumFlapper says in the second video that he's been out in the wards talking about the parameters of the upcoming new garbage contract for two years. Bullshit.

Thanks Sam, at 11:57

Boo boo. The whole meeting is just boo boo. Who is the stupid white woman who has no clue?

The mayor dont understand. The fellas know what he is makin out the deal and if you dont spread it around hands go up lightening fast to say NO. This mayor’s solution to a problem is spend some mo money on it.