Battle for Supremacy?
A couple of days ago I revisited Snellville, GA.
One of the comments which fascinated me was by Council Representative Kelly Kautz when she stated... "At this point and time, I'm ashamed to be sitting up here. We're worse than Lithonia."
Lithonia? What's up with Lithonia? I found out. Kind of.
WXIA-TV 11 from Atlanta report on their website Tuesday...
The contents of City Hall in the embattled city of Lithonia were packed up and moved down the road to the police department Tuesday, without the mayor's approval.
Police patrol cars were on site and officers used video cameras to document the events during the move, which was ordered by the city council. Council members said storing their records at the police department is the only way they can ensure the city can get back to business.
We came into this story in the middle, didn't we? Wow?
(This picture is a part of the actual move of the records.)
How do they even know what records they have and where to find them if needed?
"We'll actually do a complete inventory once we get everything over to the office," said Chief Willie Rosser.
I wonder if they are then placed in the Evidence Room?
The controversy between the mayor, police chief, and council boiled over two weeks ago when Mayor Joyce McKibben fired Chief Rosser. The city council immediately voted to reinstate him.
I love this next part of the story...
Two days later, two of the mayor's aides were arrested when they tried to enter City Hall and the mayor donned a neck brace, which she said she wore because of injuries received during a tussle with a police officer who tried to keep her from removing her computer hard drive from her office.
Her computer hard drive? Her office?
I believe it would be the City of Lithonia's hard drive and the Mayor's Office which she is only temporarily occupying.
Council Representative Kathleen deCocq stated...
"It didn't just start two weeks ago. [City Hall has] been closed for over five weeks. We have zero revenue coming in the city. We need to be accessible to the public."
Whoa...we came into the middle of not just a story, but the middle of a very long story. And, to think a Council Representative in Snellville, claims they are in worse shape than Lithonia?
From more than a thousand miles away, who am I to argue?
Al Arnold
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Yes, I was caught off guard by what that meant, too. Regardless who Snellville is "just as bad as," I don't think it's good for any city council member of any city to make disparaging comments about another city. I just don't see how that comment was productive at all...but the press does often just pick up on a sound byte and run with it and make a big deal of it too.