I hope everyone had a nice weekend and got to spend time with loved ones.
Todays memes had me laughing so enjoy. Now lets get into the Truth.
The agenda for this week's Council meeting is extremely light on actual action by our city government, but two areas caught my attention:
1. The Controller’s reports and
2. The renaming of John A. Valania Park.
Let’s explore both below.
According to the Home Rule Charter the City Controller shall have financial oversight of City finances, independent of the Executive and Legislative branches and shall review all expenditures of the Mayor, City Council and City Boards, Commissions and Agencies.
The renaming of John A. Valania Park. The city website indicates that “John A. Valania Park was built and dedicated in 1976 using Allentown Redevelopment Authority funds. A contest was held, and it was decided to name the park after former Allentown School District principal John Valania, who died at the age of 43.”
The influence that Mr. Bosket had on the Allentown community cannot be denied, my feelings are that we should not strip one dedicated space name and replace with another. That is disrespectful and unfair.
The agenda for this week's Council meeting is extremely light on actual action by our city government, but two areas caught my attention:
1. The Controller’s reports and
2. The renaming of John A. Valania Park.
Let’s explore both below.
According to the Home Rule Charter the City Controller shall have financial oversight of City finances, independent of the Executive and Legislative branches and shall review all expenditures of the Mayor, City Council and City Boards, Commissions and Agencies.
Is it just me or does the Controller focus on the easy audits and does not tackle the areas that are hitting the city with the greatest financial impact. The overtime for Public Safety and Public Works, the ever-increasing cost of the employee healthcare, and the promotions for a Solicitors office who outsource most legal services.
When was the last time an issue within the city happened where an outside entity wasn’t contracted? Yet, the city keeps giving this office more money for doing so much less. I have heard from many current employees that the solicitor’s office is one of the most underperforming and lazy group of individuals who always have a reason not to be in the office.
Seems to me like the Controller is rather deficient in his duties and focuses on the low hanging fruit. He has to justify the salaries in his department. At the same time he is hitting the audit "easy button"money is being wasted behind his back. Maybe he knows it is being wasted? Maybe he does not want to go against the administration? ....or is investigating the areas of big concern just too complex for him and his assistant?
This week’s Controller’s report focuses on chasing incorrectly posted accounts for charging, not resulting in any sort of savings at all. Instead, it just corrects the accounts. How much time was spent going through these transactions to correct a $9.99 book in Recycling that was charged to an account 68 erroneously and should be charged to an account 32? Doesn’t seem to pass the commonsense test that any time was wasted by the Controller's office on this ---- Why are their auditors in finance if they don’t catch these misused accounts. Wait, let’s ask Bina “I don’t have that information, but I can get back to you” Patel. Hold your breath starting……now!
The renaming of John A. Valania Park. The city website indicates that “John A. Valania Park was built and dedicated in 1976 using Allentown Redevelopment Authority funds. A contest was held, and it was decided to name the park after former Allentown School District principal John Valania, who died at the age of 43.”
Doesn’t it seem that there are other areas of Allentown that could be renamed in honor of Clyde Bosket. Here’s a thought, why not name the street that his barbershop was located? How about something that was not renamed in honor of another person, especially one through a campaign where the people chose the name of the site? Mack Pool? Cedar Beach Pool? The new Police Station or Fire Station? The new police station would be a great idea. Im sure Chief Roca would love that since Im sure he thinks it should be in honor of himself.
The influence that Mr. Bosket had on the Allentown community cannot be denied, my feelings are that we should not strip one dedicated space name and replace with another. That is disrespectful and unfair.
I know my words are probably falling on deaf ears/blind eyes, but it is more and more obvious as I started to watch what is going on in Allentown after several missteps of the leadership, that these city leaders we elected accept mediocrity and avoidance as a fundamental of city administration.
31 comments:
How do the solicitor’s keep getting raises if all of the important cases get outsourced? Why not get good competent solicitor’s who can handle everything?
Seems like Mr. Glazier needs to start looking into big money items. Police overtime is killing the city.
I like the one of mayor Mc ears with the caption of Mr Bosket. I'm sure the better part of Mc ears was running down his mommas thighs when Mr Bosket was in his prime.
It takes a lot to move paperwork from their inbox to an outside law firm.
The controller needs to look into overtime across the city and stop these smaller issues. We certainly know we can’t ask Patel to look into anything because she is still researching a question from Feb 2023.
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Dr. Pepper Mota stuck on $9.99 is the best ever. She is probably still sitting there thinking about it, meanwhile Cece already took that $9.99 and gave it to the homeless
Meanwhile Napoli is asking if anyone needs Chaser Tickets
From what I’ve seen, the controller is anything but independent from city council and the mayor.
He seems to be there to make sure whatever they want get pushed through.
He’s an embarrassment to the office and probably one of the worst controllers the city has ever had. And that’s saying a lot considering Pawlowski’s controller went to jail.
SpongeBob has more brains then Hendricks and Mota put together
You're right Abe. The best part of him ran down the crack of his mommas ass and ended as a stain on the mattress. HelI, I think he's been cheated. Gotta love Full Metal Jacket.
The real SpongeBob or the Mayor dressing up for Halloween as SpongeBob? Two different IQ levels
Don’t forget Affa yelling racial and derogatory slurs to everyone, Natali completing her 15th coloring book while sitting at the dias, and Zucal not giving AF anymore. All of this while Hanlon leans back and sleeps in hopes to be taken somewhere else. A real cast of characters up there.
You forgot Ce Ce. She is sitting there thinking about how she can get non profits and the homeless money. And Tuerk is texting people from home on what to say. Best group of characters ever.
If you think it's bad now wait till January. All decisions regarding anything the Mayor wants will be a 5-2 vote. Willing to take all bets from those who disagree.
And then when Cece takes Siegel’s spot, Tuerk will be sure to put another ally in to replace her. 6-1 or 7-0, Natalie doesn’t seem to be the odd man out and will fold and get in line with the group
Vote 5-2 to bankrupt the city. Oh wait thats already in motion. Tuerk will go down as the worst mayor in Allentown history. #real-latino
You wouldn’t need as much police overtime if the people who live in Allentown acted like respectable citizens. Sadly this is not the case.
We need the Solicitor. Who's going to help Tuerk with the Do not Disclose portion of the cover ups.
Probably because he was a furniture sales man and not an accountant.
I have been involve in Allentown politics for three decades. The last controller who took his duties seriously was Lou Hershman. That was so long ago few are left that remember him. Frank Concannon followed him and pretended to take the job seriously but soon put partisanship about conscience and became a team player for the Democrats instead of an advocate for the taxpayers. I called him out in it in public. He came to me afterwards and told me my comments hurt him. I told him that although we had been friendly it was my duty to say the truth publicly on matters that deal with the public good. After Frank it only got worse, one controller found lots to question and would wring his hands privately to people he knew but didn't have the courage to live up to his responsibilities as controller. After that Ed Pawlowski would recruit and fund his own controllers, The Morning Call apparently thought this was a perfectly reasonable way to do things as they said nothing. From that point on it hardly mattered who was controller, in fact it hardly mattered who held any office in the city. and I think we can all agree this continues to this day.
Do away with all the city attorneys and pay a firm a retainer. We outsource everything anyway. Could save thousands.
Don't surprise me. The cops are sitting out the strip club all night now... for what? Any guesses anyone? Don't tell me theyre not getting taken care of
Please, Glazer is the ultimate Mr. Insider, go along to get along guy. He’s a reliable hack for the Pool Trust puppet master Big Ed Meehan.
So gross!!
Glazer has been a reliable pimp for the ASD and now the A-town Parking Authority.
He loves kissing up to, and carrying water for, the man. He is reasonably bright but he has zero integrity.
Jeff is living proof that a Dead Head can be a total tool.
Affa is a certified POS.
Lou Hershman took his role as taxpayer advocate pretty seriously. That guy was really great
Probably because he is a sycophantic ass hat.
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