So, after the meeting I had with him on Tuesday, I had the feeling this would happen. Our esteemed Mayor was evasive at that meeting, and he wouldn't get pinned down to a date. I told him he resigned to the press in August, and he should follow through. He smiled and told me he had "projects" to complete. I also told him he should show up at Council meetings. He said they were a circus. I told him we are all professionals here, and we should act like professionals. He thanked me for my opinion. All of this was like talking to a wall. He was very polite, told me his "side"of things, and did exactly as he wanted.
So where does that leave us? The Mayoral "hopefuls" will all have to sit back and wait. I don't think he will resign until his term is over, but he did exactly what he wanted to do...cause chaos. Hopefully, the Council has sat on his ability to spend money like a drunken sailor by passing the resolution lowering his bid threshold. You can bet we will be closely monitoring any contracts he's thinking of awarding, and we are going to thwart him every way we can. He got the message when four of us overrode his veto. He is now in a real battle, and we are tenacious. With our taxes in threat of severely increasing, with the economy going into freefall, with people possibly losing their homes, it is inconceivable that anyone would spend the way he does. But that is our Mayor, and unless someone follows through on recall, we are stuck with him.
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Yes we are stuck with him. He's a vindictive excuse for a human and what he is doing is criminal in my book. It's a wonder how all of the work he's spending money on always comes in under his threshold - $17,200, $17.300. And it's also amazing that the companies that are getting these "jobs" are friends of his. I wonder how that's happening. That's what I find criminal.
Replacing fences that are in perfect condition. Replacing equipment in parks that nobody even goes to. Pavers everywhere, not for functionality but for show. What else is he going to buy, a limo to drive the mayor around town? I wouldn't even be surprised.
I appreciate that the council is trying to clip this egomaniac's wings. I only wish you could have set the spending limit at $.01. EVERYTHING should go out for bid. I would also advise the council to ask to see every single PO every single day, every contract that is going out to bid and to check out every bidder on the bid list before a contract is awarded. Don't pay any bill unless you have seen the paperwork beforehand. Put an article in the paper that all contractors risk not being paid if the council has no idea of what work is being done beforehand until Seda is long gone. That'll really clip his wings!
How would he know the meetings are a circus? That was then, this is now. They're not a circus until the subject of him comes up. People are showing a tremendous restraint when it comes to him in hopes that he'd be leaving when he said he would be. How stupid of us to have believed him! I think the tone of the meetings will change now that we know we're stuck with him. What kind of husband/father is he to use the ploy of the baby to resign and now he stays? What kind of husband/father is he to be separated from his daughter since August and his wife since Columbus Day weekend? The same man who is screwing the people of Jackson - not a very stand up kind of man, and I use the term man loosely. What a jerk!
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