1. Council approved $30,000. For Ordinance Officer in 2004.
2. Council approved $16,000. For paralegal in City Attorney office to help process city code violations, place liens for charges.
3. Now-The City Attorney needs to pay $95 per hour for contract legal help in his office.
4. Is City Attorney Gibson so busy on the Scribner Place project that he does not have time to process Code Enforecement?
5. Has the possibility of City Attorney Gibson receiving a large commission fee on the Scribner Bonds take all of his attention?
6. City Attorney Gibson is paid from several City Funds:
City Attorney...........$27.986
Plan Commission....$13.165
Flood Control..........$1,600
Total Salary............$42,751 - Taxpayers dollars
(Not bad for a P/T Job)
7. Person paid out of salaries from City Attorney Budget:
City Atty...............................$27,986
Code Enforcement Officer...$30,000
Paralegal..............................$16,000
City Atty.Office Total...........$73,986 - Taxpayers dollars
8. So-- with all of this help and expense our Code Enforcement Officer is without enforcement.
9. The solution is to hire contract legal person at 95 taxpayers dollars per hour?
* Perhaps City Controller Kay Garry's daughter will be able to put the enforcement behind our Code Enforcement Officer at $95.00 per hour.
10. What is the $16,000 paralegal doing, if she is not processing Code Enforcement Violations?
* Unsafe shabby buildings, weeds, grass, junk cars, illegal parking on the grass, mounds of garbage and trash all over New Albany.
Freedom Of Speech would like to say that:
The City Council did their job, and Pam Badger is trying to do her job. Now City Atty. Gibson when are you "going to do" your job?
It is what it is...
Look at the facts and draw your own conclusions!
