9th Conner, D.
Organizational Development Standing Committee Meeting
Monday, April 2, 2012
Agenda: Monday, April 2, 2012, at 5:00 p.m.
Minutes: President Kathy Graziano called the meeting to order at 5:25 p.m.
Six city employees paid to wait.
Committee Members Present:
The Honorable Kathy Graziano, President
The Honorable Ellen Robertson, Vice President
The Honorable Doug Conner
The Honorable Marty Jewell
The Honorable Cynthia Newbille
The Honorable Charles Samuels
The Honorable Reva Trammell
The Honorable Chris Hilbert
The Honorable Bruce Tyler
Others Present:
Lou Ali, Council Chief of Staff/ Interim City Clerk
Haskell Brown, Deputy City Attorney
Robert C. Bob, President of the Robert Bobb Group
Suzette Denslow, Mayor’s Chief of Staff
James W. Dyke, Chair, Mayor’s Schools Accountability& Efficiency Review Task Force
Dr. Carolyn Graham, DCAO of Human Services
Kelly King Horne, Executive Director of Howard
Allen Jackson, City Attorney
Faye Smith, Senior Assistant City Clerk
….”We don’t have enough money.”….it will take 37 years to fix the sidewalks listed as needing repair…. styleweekly.com
The Richmond City Council voted Monday night to establish a separate department for Animal Care and Control and create a director position with a salary of up to $143,263, ending a nearly two-year debate over how the office should be administered….The director position will have a salary range of $90,786 to $143,263. The office is currently managed by Chuck Marchant, who holds the title of operations manager. Marchant is now being paid $58,567 to run Animal Control….
…lapsed agreement between the city and the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals….city officials made “no effort whatsoever” to respond to concerns the group had over a draft of the new agreement. The group took issue with a provision that suggested it supported making Animal Control its own department, when in fact the SPCA wanted it placed under the Police Department.
Douglas G. Conner Jr. is seeking re-election to Richmond City Council in the 9th District, despite revelations earlier this year that he had been living primarily in Chesterfield County instead of the city…. timesdispatch.com
Political activist Paul Goldman and City Councilmen Douglas G. Conner Jr. and E. Martin Jewell jumped into the Richmond school budget debate on Wednesday, holding a midday news conference at City Hall to offer their five-point plan for making what they said were quick and lasting improvements to city schools…. timesdispatch.com
The voter registrar provided staff support for preparing the redistricting maps.
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:24 AM
To: Showalter, Kirk – Voter Reg
Subject: Showalter – Redistricting Census block dataDear Ms. Showalter,
I am looking into the redistricting of the council’s 9th district. I seems that the block where Mr. Conner has his residence was left in the 4th district until late in the plan preparation process. It also seems that the final plan would have had a better balance if the block had remained in the 4th district.
Would you please tell me what the population counts are for that census block (white, black, other minority, Hispanic, voting age). If it is available on-line, just the web address would be fine.
Thank you for your assistance,
….
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:36 AM
I will need either the census block number or residence address in order to provide the information requested.
J. Kirk Showalter
General Registrar
City of Richmond
(804) 646-5950….
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:32 PM
Dear Ms. Showalter,
Thank you for your reply.
Will you please give me the official residency address for councilor Conner.
Thank you,
….
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 2:00 PM
We are prohibited from providing anyone’s voter registration address to second parties. You are free to come into the office and view the official voter registration records that are open to public inspection, or the documents that he filed when he ran for office in 2008.
J. Kirk Showalter
Related: Homesick
An egregious violation of public trust appears to have occurred in Richmond. [councilor Douglas G. Conner Jr.], elected in 2007, has admitted to living outside the city limits, a potential violation of state law, despite the faith placed in him by the voters of the 9th District to responsibly and legally represent their interests….City Council has shirked its responsibility to deal with this crucial matter….When City Council drew its redistricting lines last year, the Grand Brook Circle home suddenly turned up in the 9th District, assuming the plan is approved by the U.S. Department of Justice….styleweekly.com
Related: Voting District Map Change
…The terms of three commissioners on the search committee, former Chairman Elliott Harrigan, Orlando C. Artze and tenant representative Marilyn B. Olds, expired last year, and none has been reappointed. The council just appointed three new members, including two to seats it added almost two years ago….[councilor Douglas G. Conner Jr.] said he was not aware that Harrigan and Artze’s terms had expired. “That one slipped completely off the screen,” he said…. timesdispatch.com
He insisted to a WTVR reporter that the landscaped home with the circular driveway that he built on Marshall Pointe Trail is his “secondary residence.” The answer strained credulity, especially since he has acknowledged that his wife, Jean, stays in Chesterfield. timesdispatch.com
A Richmond City [councilor Douglas G. Conner Jr.] is on the defensive after questions are raised about where he lives. nbc12.com