Jackson City Council President Ashby Foote issued the following statement about the Clarion-Ledger's coverage of the Council's legal fees:
The City Council’s legal fees have been in the headlines recently as they should be. The City spends way too much on lawyers and legal matters. The City of Jackson employs 15 lawyers and only 1 engineer. That is not as it should be. The Council has spent over $200,000 on outside counsel over the past year and a half. Why? Because of the mayor’s illegal actions back in March of 2022 when he abandoned the Solid Waste Collection RFP and gave Richard’s Disposal the notice to proceed without a valid contract. These illegal actions had to be addressed and City lawyers were complicit in the situation, thus the need for outside counsel. The mayor’s expensive and tangled legal trail has gone from Special Chancellors to Federal Courts and to the State Supreme Court and now once again the City is being sued by Richard’s Disposal. Meanwhile the citizens are without garbage services because the mayor waited until the last 48 hours to bring a contract to the City Council that he had known about for a year and knew full well he might not have the votes. It is either failing to plan or planning to fail. This is a very sad situation which needs to be fixed and it has been the Council’s desire to fix it.
The City Council will meet at 1 today. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba placed on the agenda a proposal to award yet another emergency one-year contract to Richard's Disposal. The Council will address a competing resolution offered up by several Council members. The resolution urges the Mayor to award an emergency 90-day contract to a solid waste collector that has the necessary MDEQ permits. The Council will also discuss a resolution urging Mayor Lumumba to follow the MDEQ requirement that Jackson comply with a solid waste plan.
Tune in at 1.
Kingfish note: Betting pool: How many times will Virgi wail?
21 comments:
We are ready to rid of Virgi!!! My gosh she’s pathetic
Virgi is pathetic.
I assume a kickback doesn’t happen with just a 90 day extension
If a movie were made about the city of Jackson, no one would go unless they enjoy science fiction movies. It is too stupid to be true.
The rest of civilized society is watching and laughing at y’all’s incompetence.
The City of Jackson employs 15 lawyers and only 1 engineer.
Factoid totally lost on LeMaster.
One of the women on the city council stated at least once that some of the legal work was done “pro bono”. If someone has a list of Jackson’s “lawyers”, please post their names.
The 7th vote on RD🤣🤣🤣
No need to publish my comments re: missing text.
"The Council (????) its own items on the agenda."
"The Council will address a resolution urging (that) the Mayor (???) to comply with the MDEQ requirement that Jackson produce (???) comply with a solid waste plan. "
Jackson = The Twilight Zone v2.0
Apologies...Earlier I erred when I sent in a post saying the Kingfish (although he's tired of garbage talk) has six or seven ongoing, active threads about garbage.
I was wrong and apologize. This one, the most recent, makes a total of Seventeen (17) active threads on this blog dedicated to, guess what, garbage pickup in the city of Jackson.
Every time Baby-Chock craps his diaper, there's a new thread. And every time someone on council or otherwise, reports on the smell of Chock's crap...another thread.
@12:18 Virgi knows she's done. She has put the Mayor's agenda before her own constituents and it's shameful.
The City of Jackson employs 15 lawyers and only 1 engineer.
How many MBAs vs that single engineer in the City With Soul?
IMO the there is a multiplier effect which applies when you have at least one MBA and at least one lawyer working together to supervise/obstruct an engineer's work. If the project requires the engineer to help the MBA and lawyer understand engineering concepts used to make engineering decisions then the obstruction is exponentially increased!
Does the special chancellor live in Tibet? He’s appointed for THIS case, so why did it 2 weeks to get a hearing? When I practiced in chancery court, I could get an emergency hearing for injunction or protective order any day of any week. Can walk in and be heard that day if you have imminent danger and grounds to withhold service of process, 3 days max otherwise.
It’s 1:00
"If a movie were made about the city of Jackson..."
A Day To Die -- had nothing to do with the reality that is Jackson, but Lord Farquad got a cameo.
April 12, 2023 at 1:00 PM
So what? Why does it matter to you?
@1:00pm It’s how you report news. The flakes on wlbt would never report something like the one on this post from Foote since it’s not in line with their side of the garbage debacle. Lil drake would get mad at them. KF reports a lot of shit we would never see. Thanks for visiting this site multiple times daily and commenting though!
Come the next election for the mayor and city council we are all going to take the TRASH out
Time is up for Virgi.
15 lawyers for Choke? One to review his daily haircut, one to review is daily shave, one to review his shoe shiner, one to review his 4 bodyguards, one to review his lunch, one to review his shadow, one to review the items on top of his desk, one to review when he empties said lunch content, one to watch his chief of staff, one to review his daily microphone and exclusive call to Maggie Wade. Then there are the calls to Socrates, one to Bennie, one to Bernie, one to the Rev.. . . oh the humanity.
He probably needs several more attorneys for DEI matters.
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