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Week 15 - Day 2

The plot thickens ....

Today, Mike Schadek received the following email from the City Manager ...

"I have concerns that public records are not being shared in their entirety on your website and therefore lose their integrity.  Council knows that Inland rescinded their no-fault termination offer and recommitted themselves to working through the issues at hand."

Click here to see this email.

Hmmm ... maybe members of Council know now, but we know for a fact that at least two of them knew NOTHING about the offer as of last week, much less when it was made by the contractor on May 22, or the claim that it was rescinded. 

And, last week, the Assistant City Manager told me during a phone conversation, 

"Council was not told because a half hour after [the City] got the letter [of May 22, presenting the no-fault termination proposal], the contractor rescinded."

So, why on May 30 is the City Manager writing the contractor to turn down the offer if it's been rescinded?  

Hmm ... none of this makes sense.  

A few questions ...

1. Was the offer rescinded by the contractor or not? 
If so, when?

2. Were members of Council told or weren't they?
If so, when and what were they told?  
If only some were told and others not, why?

Seems like we have at least one person in the City Manager's office being somewhat careless with the truth.
 
Anyone who has followed this site knows that we only report things we know to be true, and expose those that aren't. 

We stand by our original statement that the City Manager took it upon herself to turn down that offer without bringing the matter to all Council members, and question whether indeed this was within her scope of authority.

And here's the latest Dispatch article, "Allegation of cussing latest in trash fight." 

Click below to see the email sent by the Assistant City Manager.



Week 15 - Day 1

Let's do some review ...

Last week, we learned that in late May, the contractor offered a
no-fault termination of the contract, and the City Manager took it upon herself to turn down that offer.

Click here to see this correspondence.




The contractor also asked to reopen discussions regarding the solicitation and the bid, given that some expected service components were not in the original bid document. This will mean that the cost will go up.

We also learned that the City went out for bid to collect paper from private businesses.  Why are we using taxpayer dollars to haul private businesses' trash away?

Based on the data in the letters and bid document, we estimate that the increased costs could add up to at least $1,000,000 over 5 years.

This doesn't include the anticipated cost of repairing damage done to private drives by the contractor's trucks.

Remember ... we were guaranteed that our service and sticker fees would not go up for the next 5 years.

And ... nearly 4 weeks after learning that background checks can't be done on the contractor's workers (nearly half of which are temp employees), we're still waiting to hear what the City is going to do to make good their commitment to us that this was required in the contract.

The petition signatures will be turned in next week. 
If you haven't already signed, please
call Mike Schadek (554-5607) to do so.