There's a lot of late breaking scoop out of City Hall today. Word is, City Manager Wayne Cauthen's career is back in play, this time not by Mayor Funky's clumsy hand but due to frustration from The City Council . . .
CAUTHEN'S EVALUATIONS CAME IN RECENTLY AND HE SCORED 2/5 ON MOST CATEGORIES AND WAS GIVEN AN OVERALL MEDIOCRE GRADE!!!
Word is, they're going to give him some recommendations for improvement.
Also of note: 4 MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL DIDN'T EVEN TURN IN EVALUATIONS!!!
Word is that the Council is going to try to usurp Mayor Funky by installing City budget officer Troy Schulte as an "interim" City Manager until Mayor Funky is out off office either by recall or a nepotism investigation.
Whatever happens, it's going to be interesting and I'm not sure if Cauthen will be able to mount the impressive community outcry that he garnered last time. Meanwhile, this is yet another instance in which the Mayor will look weak given that a united City Council might be able to do what he couldn't.
Isn't Cauthen just a sophisticated criminal? Funk was right on this one.
ReplyDeleteFunk was right but couldn't do anything about it. Big difference.
ReplyDeletejus another lying, stealing nigger. jus like dey skool board.
ReplyDeleteI love that picture.
ReplyDelete"Meanwhile, this is yet another instance in which the Mayor will look weak given that a united City Council might be able to do what he couldn't"
ReplyDeleteTony, please explain what you mean with this statement. Boy are you full a shit. You twist EVERY situation against the Mayor even while your statements conflict with prior ones. You claim the Mayor looks weak if City Council can accomplish something he couldn't. Let recap a$$hole. It was the City Council who fought the Mayor tooth and nail when he did not want to renew Wayne's contract. He was called a racist... the city council retards went behind his back and gave wayne a 3 year contract and doubled his salary. Now, they have egg on their face because Wayne is a joke and CROOK misappropriating $9.3 MILLION!! So if the City Council wants him to step down, why do you saying this is a black mark on the Mayor? He tried to get Wayne out but couldn't. I suppose Terry "King Pin" Riley is one of the council who didn't turn in an evaluation... Could it be that part of the $9.3 million was funneled to Terry? Hmmmmm.... can you say Perfect Output.
You're such an idiot Tony.. you really are.
How is Riley connected to Perfect Output?
ReplyDelete$9.3 mil? I want to hear more!
Kendrick is at the office early!
ReplyDeleteMust have missed the morning meeting at the Brookside Mayor's office.
Tony knows racism. He is a taco munching, bean dipping idiot.
ReplyDeleteThe council is looking for a scapegoat now that all the bills are coming due with no money to pay them. They knew or should have known for years that KC was headed downhill with Cauthen at the wheel.
ReplyDeleteAll you gotta do with Cauthern is ask some polite questions in Denver. They can tell you all about the deal maker who brought "his" boys to K.C. The sooner we are rid of that clown the better. Terry Riley is getting set to instigate a recall-- and if people listen to him it will fail and then we will really be in the shit.
ReplyDeleteI fart in your general direction.
ReplyDeleteThe City Manager should beg the Mayor to fire him. An elite group is calling for a recall of a new Mayor, and they have already picked his replacement, someone who will not serve the whole City, but only the elite.
ReplyDeleteThe appointed person is a benefactor of TIF. And the TIF plans generated about $230 million below original projections. The TIF plans projected about $465 million in revenue but produced only $231 million through 2005. Remember who was Mayor?
The projections are the revenue expected to be available to pay redevelopment costs. Section 807 of the City Charter, states use of economic incentives to benefit Kansas City, and not misuse Kansas City tax payers, because some are so greedy, arrogant (Cordish), and disrespectful developers. Thinking they are the only ones that can do the job. Projections were overstated and now they are looking at the General Funds. What happened to Budgeting and serious Business. This is no power game.
TIF projections consistently overstate TIF revenues. TIF revenues fell below original projections for about 78 percent. Approved TIF plans are a promise by the developers, Mayor, City Manager, and the City Council to
citizens who pay the taxes.
So, these people who think they are going to be the immediate new Mayor, and keep business as usual. Better rethink how important and knowledgeable Kansas City's Citizens are. And they do not forget the history!
Just a simple question. How much revenue was the old deserted Jones store building generating? How much revenue were the empty surface parking lots generating? The Stamp Store? The Tuxedo place? The Gold Mine? The boarded up buildings, the haunted houses? The "HISTORY" of your downtown is so conveniently forgotten. Ghost town. That's what it was. Ghost towns don't generate revenue or taxes. While you enjoy pissing on the former Mayor and the current City Manager for actually getting your Ghost of a downtown into something people want to go and spend money in, try and remember that the current Mayor, while calling all those plans stupid, HAD NO PLAN ON HIS OWN! He wanted to put Ed Wolf as City Manager, the same Ed Wolf who's Public Works dept. was a disaster for years. We now see how smart this dumbass mayor is with money, hell just look at his many refi's on his house and how his campaign finances were handled. This is the guy who testified in court that working hard is not in his nature, he'd rather sit around and read books and talk to his wife and kids. He had the perfect job, sit around and criticize how everyone else did their job in City Hall. Talk about shooting fat fish in a crowded barrel. I don't know what the hell he thought the mayor's job actually entailed but having the wife as second in command, criticizing everything you think is stupid, and pouting because you don't get your way ALL the time is not in the job description. I'm guessing by the comments here that he also made a lot of promises to some old cronies in City Hall that he would restore all the toys they were used to before the former administration actually forced them to produce results and get some friggin' work done for their fat salaries. Nobody in Denver had to teach the entrenched bloodsuckers here in KC how to suck the lifeblood out of a city. They were here long before Wayne ever got here. They'll be whining to get back if Wayne ever leaves.
ReplyDeleteNo one will be whining if wayne leaves except his porn pushing office staff who are way over paid for pushing their porn around the city managers office. Wayne is a frickin crook who has lined the pockets of his denver cronies. He sucked the blood out of one city only to land in KC to do the same thing. Kansas City residents are sick and tired of wayne cauthen, who is responsible for running this city, not the mayor. the budget deficit lands in the lap of wayne cauthen. the city services have gone down the crapper because of his mismanagement. HE NEEDS TO KICKED OUT ON HIS ASS!!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a set up, you have not given the Mayor a chance, all you have given him is grief since he took office because your trained yes man did not win. Selecting a Mayor is serious and not just for personal gain.
ReplyDeleteCITY CHARTER
DIVISION 3. RECALL
Sec. 720. Recall petition papers.
Any officer elected by the vote of the people may be removed from office by the electors of the City or the district thereof by which the officer was chosen. The procedure for effecting such removal shall be as follows:
Any elector of the City, or the district by which the officer sought to be removed was chosen, desiring the removal of any such officer, may make and file with the City Clerk an affidavit stating the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and the grounds alleged for such removal. The Clerk shall thereupon deliver to the elector making the affidavit copies of petition papers in proper form for demanding such removal, printed copies of which the Clerk shall keep on file for distribution as herein provided. If insufficient copies are furnished by the Clerk, additional copies may be printed by the elector at the elector’s own expense, and may be used as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 720.5. Grounds for recall. (CS Ord 051253, eff. 9-1-06)
Grounds for recall must relate to and affect the administration of the official’s office, and be of a substantial nature directly affecting the rights and interests of the public. Grounds for recall are limited to objective reasons which reasonable people, regardless of their political persuasion, could agree would render any official’s performance ineffective, which must be an act of misfeasance, the improper performance of some act which may lawfully be done, or malfeasance, the commission of some act wholly beyond the official’s authority, or nonfeasance, the failure to perform a required duty. The Council shall not fail to place the matter before the voters based on the inadequacy of the grounds stated by the committee of petitioners.
Sec. 721. Filing recall petition.
A petition demanding the removal of any officer elected by the vote of the people shall be known as a recall petition. A recall petition, to be effective, must be filed with the City Clerk, or with the election authorities, within thirty (30) days after the filing of the affidavit as provided in the next preceding section, and to be sufficient, must bear the signatures of registered voters of the City or district from which such officer was elected equal in number to at least twenty per cent (20%) of the total vote cast therein for candidates for the office of Mayor at the last preceding regular municipal election.
A recall petition, if insufficient as originally filed, may be supplemented as provided in this article. The committee of petitioners hereinafter described shall have the right, at their option, to file a recall petition either with the City Clerk or with the election authorities of the City, and the City Clerk or the election authorities, as the case may be, with equal force and effect, shall have the power to certify as to the sufficiency of such recall petition.
Sec. 722. Recall election ordered.
The City Clerk or election authorities shall examine such recall petition and any supplementary petition, and if found sufficient, the Clerk or they shall at once submit same to the Council with the Clerk=s or their certificate to that effect and shall notify the officer whose removal is sought of such action. If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign within five (5) days after such submission, the Council shall thereupon order and fix a day for holding a recall election in the City or district from which such officer was elected at the next available municipal or state election held not less than forty-five (45) days after the petition shall have been presented to the Council for which the City can lawfully provide required notices to the election authorities without seeking a court order.
Sec. 723. Candidates to succeed officer recalled.
Candidates to succeed any officer whose removal is sought shall be placed in nomination by petition, signed, filed and verified as provided for nominating petitions for a primary election, except that each petition paper shall specify that the candidate named therein is a candidate to succeed the particular officer whose removal is sought.
Sec. 724. Ballots in recall election. (CS Ord 051253, eff. 9-1-06)
Ballots used at a recall election shall conform to the following requirements:
Mayor _________ or Council member _________) has been subjected to recall by submission of a recall petition. Which of the following candidates should serve as (Mayor or Council member) to serve out the existing term of office?
Below shall be listed the names of all qualified candidates, which may include the official subject to recall.
Sec. 725. Result of recall election. (CS Ord 051253, eff. 9-1-06)
The candidate who shall have received the highest number of votes at such election, shall be deemed elected and shall serve for the unexpired term unless sooner removed as provided in this Charter, provided that the candidate received greater than 50% of the votes. If no candidate received greater than 50% of the votes, the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall participate in a runoff election held at the next available municipal or state election held for which the City can lawfully provide required notices to the election authorities without seeking a court order.
Sec. 726. Election when an officer resigns. (CS Ord 051253, eff. 9-1-06)
If an officer, for whose recall an affidavit has been filed with the City Clerk, and a petition for the officer’s recall shall be filed within thirty days next thereafter, or for whose recall a petition is submitted to the Council, shall resign within five days after the filing of such affidavit with the City Clerk (when followed within thirty days next thereafter by the filing of a petition for his recall), or within five days after the submission of such petition to the Council, the election shall be held as hereinbefore provided, except that the official resigning from office may not be a candidate. No vacancy resulting from such resignation of an officer, after the filing of an affidavit for recall, when following within thirty (30) days next thereafter by the filing of petition for recall, shall be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the City Council or of the remaining members thereof, but such vacancy shall be filled by election as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 727. Limitations on recall petitions.
No recall petitions shall be filed against any officer within six (6) months after the officer takes office, nor, in case of a member subjected to a recall election and not removed thereby, until at least six (6) months after such election.
Sec. 728 – Sec. 729. Reserved.
DIVISION 4. INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL PETITIONS
Sec. 730. Signatures to petitions.
The signatures to an initiative, referendum, or recall petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof as provided by this section. Each such petition paper shall consist of sheets of uniform size, printed and signed on only one side. Each such petition paper shall, at the top of such petition paper, contain a description of the ordinance or matter of
such initiative, referendum, or recall petition which specifically identifies the subject of such initiative, referendum or recall petition. Each signer of any such petition paper shall sign his/her name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall indicate after his/her name his/her place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place. Each such petition paper shall provide a space for the date of each signature and each signer of such petition paper shall indicate the date he or she signs.
Every petition paper shall have printed on its face, “It is unlawful for anyone to sign any petition with any name other than his or her own, or knowingly to sign his or her name more than once for the same measure for the same election, or to sign a petition when he or she knows he or she is not a registered voter, or to encourage another to do so.”
The affidavit attached to the petition paper shall be substantially in the following form:
State of Missouri )
) ss.
County of __________ )
I, __________________ being first duly sworn, under oath state that the
following named person, to-wit (here shall be legibly written or typewritten the names of the signers of this petition paper):
1.__________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________
3____________________________________________________
Etc.
signed the foregoing petition paper, and each of them signed his or her name thereto in my presence: I believe that each has stated his or her name and address correctly, has signed the petition only once, and that each signer is an elector of Kansas City, Missouri (or of the district if the petition is for the recall of a member of the council from a district).
Signed________________________
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ___ day of _________, ____.
____________________________
Notary Public
(Or other officer qualified to administer oaths.)
Sec. 731. Filing petitions.
All petition papers comprising an initiative, referendum or recall petition shall be assembled and filed with the City Clerk or, if a recall petition, with the election authorities, as one instrument. Each petition paper shall include as a part thereof a statement giving the names and addresses of five electors of the city, who, as a committee of petitioners, shall be officially regarded as filing the petition. Within ten days after a petition shall have been filed, the Clerk, or the election authorities, if a recall petition is filed with such authorities, shall determine its sufficiency and shall attach thereto a certificate showing the result of the Clerk’s or their examination. If the Clerk or they, as the case may be, shall certify that the petition is insufficient, the Clerk or they shall set forth in the certificate the particulars in which it is insufficient and shall at once notify the committee of the petitioners of the Clerk’s or their findings.
Sec. 732. Supplementary petitions.
If the City Clerk, or the election authorities, if a recall petition is filed with such authorities, shall find an initiative, referendum or recall petition to be insufficient, the committee of petitioners may at any time within ten (10) days after the making of a certificate of insufficiency by the City Clerk, or by the election authorities, if a recall petition was filed with such authorities, file a supplementary petition upon additional papers as provided in case of an original petition.
The Clerk, or the election authorities, if a recall petition was filed with such authorities, shall, within five (5) days after such a supplementary petition is filed, make examination of such supplementary petition, and, if the Clerk’s or their certificate shall show the petition, as supplemented still to be insufficient, the Clerk or they shall file it in the Clerk’s or their office and notify the committee of the petitioners of the findings, and no further action shall be had on such insufficient petition. The determination that any petition is insufficient shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.
No technical rule shall govern the determination of the sufficiency of such petitions or the signatures appealed thereto, but the intent and the identity of each signer thereof shall be fairly determined.
I do not believe you have grounds for a recall.
YES WE CAN!
ReplyDeleteCauthen would already be gone if Funkhouser hadn't tried to single-handedly remove him...one of our good mayor's earliest political mis-steps and first displays of arrogance.
ReplyDeleteThough an auditor, the man can't count to 7 - the number of votes he needs to get ANYTHING done.
tony what are you going to do when your source is forced out of city hall like wayne and the thug riley. dont be surprised if they arent behind the bates issued. after all riley already has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar and nothing happ;ened so they think they are indestructable what a team riley and caukin
ReplyDeleteHey City Hall Buttnut/ Anony.12/03 8:39, I see you're still whining about porn. Must be talking about the Mayor's wife and the kind of office procedures she ran. Check out the deposition transcripts for the porn chatter. Makes you a bit hypocrite and quite pathetic. As for city services it's hard to manage city servants who do nothing but whine about how over worked (NOT) and underpaid (NOT AGAIN) they are, blame the city manager for their plight then freak out when the Mayor wants to cut their jobs. Why should city servants take any initiative or push themselves hard at their job when they've got the do nothing Mayor, his racist, do nothing wife, and the rest of the Do Nothing Gang setting an example.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, thanks for confirming what a blood sucker like you does all day. Aren't you late for Gloria's noon foot massage?
Just what does the Mayor's cock taste like, Tony?
ReplyDeleteHey City Manager Buttnut Anon 12:53 p.m. Listen closely retard... Wayne Cauthen is responsible for running the city you moron. The mayor and city council make policy. If anyone is going to get laid off, it will be due to the mismanagement of the city manager. I see you're still stuck on the gloria's feet.
ReplyDeleteAnd listen up rocket scientist.. if someone can't manage city servants then either a) they need to go for not performing the work, or b) the manager needs to go because he's not doing his job.
Why should my taxes go to pay someone to sit under the bridge and pound down a 40 oz, when he should be mowing the common area. You excuse for city servants to sit around with their fingers up there ass because what goes on in the Mayor's office is so lame.
But thanks for showing your intelligence (not). Isn't it time to go tickle Wayne's inner thighs with your big ears.... I hear you have dentures. HOMO
I don't know City Hall Buttnut, Wayne still has his job and hasn't had to sue the city. How's the Mayor doing? Oh right, depositions. Lawyer's fees. Most likely will lose his house/Temp. Mayor's office. Laughing stock of the nation.
ReplyDeleteYou can squeal all you want but you're still Wayne's little bitch.
As for city servants not doing their job, you are the number one example of someone who needs to be fired. God knows you're not earning the paycheck you're scamming off the taxpayers. But then who would Wayne get to empty his trashcans?