I’m sure you’ve heard/read how past leaders were nothing more than “Good ol’ Boys” and how they were leading our city into a financial apocalypse and destroying the trust of good citizens all over Duncanville with their reign of terror .
I’m positive you’ve heard/read about how the past “Good ol’ Boys” (GOB’s) appointed their “cronies” and “henchmen” on boards & commissions in an effort to help expedite their dirty work.
I guarantee you’ve been informed about how “current” members of the exclusive GOB’s Club have circumvented the rules and abused their power to place themselves on boards and commissions.
What you won’t hear/read about is how it was all done before.
But not by those dirty GOB’s you keep hearing about.
The precedence of this so-called abuse of power of vacating boards and “self-appointing” or appointing political allies were set by none other than the ones that are telling members of the current council are wrong.
On August 27th 2011, the following story was posted on duncanvillevoice.com
8-27-2011 (Council-members Play Chess With Economic Development)
Council members (Janet Harris, Johnette Jameson, Don Freeman and Leslie Thomas) voted on Thursday August 25th, 2011 to vacate the entire 4B (DECDC Board) and strategically replace current standing members with some of their long time political allies.
District 5 Council member Johnette Jameson made the motion to terminate the service of all current 4B Board members, which was seconded by newly elected District 1 Council member Don Freeman. Freeman was clearly not happy after the 4B Board decided to not follow the council’s recommendation to terminate Earl Jones’ contract with the City of Duncanville as Economic Developer.
Freeman explained the reasoning for his second of Jameson’s motion by saying, “They (the 4B Board Members) have a right to come in here and express their opinion but not to second guess a decision we make. They report to us, they make recommendations that we approve. What they did the other night wasn’t right.”
- During the August 25th 2011 Duncanville City Council Meeting:
- Councilmember Johnette Jameson made a motion to vacate the entire Duncanville Economic Development board and reappoint new members. Jameson (District 5) made this motion due to remarks made by some board members after the DCEDC Board voted to renew the contract with former Economic Development Director Earle Jones and the Duncanville City Council voted 4-3 (Jameson, Harris, Thomas, and Freeman voted) not to offer the new contract.
- Smithey disagreed with the motion saying that members of the DCEDC were taxpayers and had the right to voice their opinion.
- Freeman agreed with Jameson that while they had the right to disagree with the decision, but disagreed with them making remarks about the council.
- The vote was 4-3 (Jameson, Harris, Thomas, and Freeman for) to vacate the entire DCEDC.
- The following were appointed to the board:
- Wendy Nalls (2-year term)
- Jack Coleman (2-year term)
- Tracy Shook (2-year term)
- Tommie Rains (2-year term)
- Ann Hubener (1-year term)
- Deborah Hodge (1-year term)
- Homer Fincannon (1-year term)
What was the motivation for the recent exile of the DCEDC?
I’m sure that the above information was left out of the story you have been hearing, hasn’t it?
duncanvillevoice 