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| Checking Magnolia’s E-mails - Aug. 24 |
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The Tribune recently filed several public information requests with the City of Magnolia. The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to request access to government information. An officer for public information and the officer's agent may not ask why you want them. All government information is presumed to be available to the public. Certain exceptions may apply to the disclosure of the information. In a public information request filed on July 27, the Tribune requested copies of all city e-mails from or to City Administrator Ryan Kelley, Councilwoman Patsy Williams and Mayor Jimmy Thornton for a three month period. This request included their city and personal e-mail addresses. The Tribune was given 2,850 pages of e-mails and paid $420 for them. The e-mails are public record and can be requested by anyone. The pages are available for anyone to view at the Tribune offices. Due to the large number of e-mails obtained, the Tribune will publish a few of them each week in the coming months. FROM: Nathan Krupke TO: Ryan Kelley, Beverly Standley DATE: April 30, 2009 SUBJECT: Audit “Mr. Kelley and Beverly, Here is our status. This process is obviously taking longer than I expected or desire. My managing partner is hounding me for the report, so I’m feeling pressure from every side to complete this. The report is proving to be our biggest challenge due to the prior auditor and different nuiances (sic) the prior auditor did that are not normal for ‘city’ reports. We are getting closer each day. I would still like the opportunity to discuss the draft report with both of you and the overall presentation to City Council as the report will show just how fiscally responsible your Council needs to be given the current financial state of the City.” FROM: John Bramlett TO: Jimmy Thornton, Ryan Kelley DATE: July 15, 2009 SUBJECT: Water cut off “Jimmy I need to (sic) how we have allowed Magnolia Ridge to have free water over the last seven months. This is not a mistake and I want to know how this was allowed for all these months. They are not being treated like the other citizens in Magnolia. If this was to get out to the citizens they would be revolting. If they have not paid by Friday Morning I expect the meter cut off. I want to see a copy of the check and when deposited Friday the cancelled check and the deposit slip. You know that we are trying very hard to cover the note on the water system and will probally (sic) have to raise rates. Im (sic) not happy about this at all. Ryan I would like to have a copy of the cut off list for the last seven months.” TO: Ryan Kelley FROM: GB Tech DATE: July 10, 2009 SUBJECT: Security Services “Mr. Kelly, As per your request, James performed the additional security services (out of scope). Please review and confirm the duties were performed to your satisfaction and approve the 5 hours in which it took to complete them.
Thank you, Cheryl Carter” TO: Ryan Kelley FROM: Beverly Standley DATE: July 8, 2009 SUBJECT: Mayor “Please call the Mayor at your earliest convenience. Someone is saying that we are paying salaries out of the water fund. WE ARE. I thought this was acceptable.”
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written by phyllisLS, August 25, 2009
Thank you Tribune for keeping the tax payers updated on what their monies are being spent on. Every week we are more informed on the unprofessional acts of our city government. Until this city is governed by professional business educated individuals there will be "no light at the end of the tunnel". This town deserves to become all that it can be, but until we stop the strangulation that some individuals continue to hold on it, this town will continue to wither.
... written by exposed, August 31, 2009
Politicians (from local government to Washington) are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Think about it, how come the City is in the red? It’s our councilmember’s who are making decisions, along with a City Manager, 4 A and 4 B. No one else is making the decisions; they decide to spend our money and we pay.
Why have a budget if it’s not going to be followed. Why have any ordinances if they are not going to be enforced, why have a cut off list for NONPAYMENT. With a budget in place where is the checks and balances? Who is making the decisions? It’s apparently not the entire council, or is it, and if it is THIS DECISION HAS TO BE AN AGENDA ITEM and placed on the agenda for discussion and a VOTE. This is not happening. Why, what is being covered up? We know we are over budget and yet NOT ONE Councilperson has put this ITEM on the agenda to ask WHY or to explain this to us. So I can only speculate that they are all involved in over spending. How can anyone be allowed to continue to have a service that requires payment go seven (7) months without paying (and not even a citizen)? This also should have been on the agenda if the City was going to allow this. What individual(s) are flexing their muscles as a representative of the PEOPLE to allow this? Who made the decision, Kelley, Mayor, one of the councilmember’s WHO? Someone had to tell those that go out every month and turn CITIZENS off for nonpayment NOT TO TURN OFF MAGNOLIA RIDGE. Who is benefiting from this decision, the Mayor has been allowed to hunt on Magnolia Ridges property. Mr. Bramllet how did you find out about this, and why would you not put it on the AGENDA? Who are you protecting? Do you know who gave the order and why, if you do please let us all know, we may not want to vote for them come next election. Someone in our Government needs to stand up and believe in the OATH they took and start protecting us the citizens from the corruption that is taking place in the City.
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