November 18, 2011. Jim Howard, city purchasing director, who wears his pro-life and conservative credentials on his sleeve, was terminated without warning, and no reasonable explanation was given. You can only imagine, no wait, you imagined correctly.
December 21, 2011. Beth Malloy gets her walking papers. Her explanation; “She said she had both personal and professional reasons to leave.” Professional reasons? One can only imagine. I suspect a tiff with the administration. Glad she left nonetheless.
January 28, 2012. Andi Udris is shown the door from The Alliance. He was an outspoken individual, and successful at his job. Udris also openly supported the “right- to- work” legislation, something Henry opposed. He leaves under a cloud of suspicion. Kevin Leininger stated just the other day:
But surely an agency that spends so much of the public’s money and claims to represent its interests can muster a better explanation for what happened than the terse two-sentence news released issued Friday stating that Udris had resigned to “pursue other interests” – the oldest euphemism in the book for a separation that is not entirely voluntary.
February 2, 2012. King Henry kills the city-county homeland security agreement. No reason, he just did it. On Thursday, Henry sent a letter to the county commissioners stating the agreement is over in 60 days. That’s it, no explanation. According to one county commissioner, the was no advance warning, and no complaints from the city.
Henry writes: ”While the past six years have been a valuable experiment, with the challenges of budgetary constraints, the city must work to find more effective service solutions for its residents”
Effective solutions? More lockstep democrats, one could suppose.
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Keep in mind ,Homeland Security is located in the Graham Richard Pyramid .Otherwise known as the Public Safety Academy.So are they dumping the building or maybe just putting the cost for Homeland all on the county per State code?How bad of shape is the City in financially.With the election over it seems to be unraveling.Besides Henry chopping heads.
JBloom, good points. I suspect a for sale sign up soon.
Maybe the county should move Homeland from the city building to a county owned location, that way they are not having to pay the city for office space.
Maybe the new sheriff's facility near Meyer & Moeller roads.
AWB:'
How did Mel Brooks say it?
"It's GOOD to be king".
(didn't say anything about how BAD it would be for the "subjects"…)
My guess is, local higher education will end up buying the PSA. they are currently renting more space now. Would be nice to see Ivy Tech, Indiana Tech, IPFW come together and buy the building.
Henry is just trying to out spend Graham Richard. So far so good, Henry is great at buying building for way more than they are worth and under estimating the cost of repair. I wonder if he does that with the other businesses his family is involved in. Or now we know why he is the only member of the family to get in government. He plays well when its not his money.
Dan Turkette is a Mans, Man and he is one of Fort Wayne's Treasures. A quick update as I've been out of sight for awhile. My Quepos, Costa Rica relocation has been moved up to August 1st. I've been volunteering at the Dick Lugar phone bank and reacquainted to the fine campaign staff of Wayne, Justin, Paul Morris and Ethan. If you want to volunteer (My position on FREE Hot Pizza remains the same) give me a call at 423-4301 weekdays between 8:30 am and 1 pm; or just emait me at: joeinquepos.costarica@gmail.com. Thank you and God Bless you all.
Joe Silva