Mayor James Ireton, Jr., today, received an official request from the Center for Conflict Resolution to attend mediation sessions with SAPOA – the Salisbury Area Property Owners Association. Mayor Ireton declined the invitation.
“Conflict resolution is for 2 groups in conflict. The city is not in conflict with SAPOA when we enforce the law. My suggestion is as it has always been: ‘Police your own, SAPOA.’ I would suggest that SAPOA get a list of its most egregious offenders and ask them to mediation. The city would be happy to supply those lists. The city will keep enforcing the law. I just finished a University of Maryland Law School Fellows Program on Conflict Resolution. In this situation, I am not conflicted. I can’t mediate laws away, I have to enforce them. Additionally, the city posted on its website, today, a list of landlords that refused inspections, those total 143 in the last year.” Said Mayor Ireton Those can be found at:
http://www.ci.salisbury.md.us/Portals/0/Press/12monthRandomHiso.pdf
Get em Ireton , I like it!
ReplyDeleteThose inspectors come with crudentials?
ReplyDeleteGet 'em! SAPOA thinks they run our city government.
ReplyDeleteNO MORE!
Stu Leer and his companies are on the list.
ReplyDeleteHe'll likely come up with some reason why he's being persecuted.
Why not just schedule an inspection between tenants instead of whining about the city doing them randomly. That's what my landlord did in Jersey.
From that list, it appears the city schedules with the landlord and doesn't just storm in on the tenant.
One thing I learned as a renter: a good landlord just does what he's supposed to and a bad one makes a lot of noise about how benevolent he is or how hard it is or how bad the government is.
All just my opinion but at least it's worth two cents.
He's right. The problem is with SAPOA, not the law. This is a complicated situation, but those gangsters/landlords think they rule. I think they don't.
ReplyDeleteMake the landlords license each rental and if they fail an inspection take the license. A civil penaltly that makes them take notice if they are not licensed. OC does it and their rental properties are much much nicer than Salisbury's.
ReplyDeleteEven if it's right, the reaction is childish.
ReplyDeleteYou can say 'go get em' all you like, but this city will be seen in a light all the poorer for this ridiculous posturing.
Finally! A mayor that will eneforce the law. Course, the laws suck because of the lousy attorney Salsbury has. But hell yeah, clean up the lousy lookin houses in Salisbury. Place looks like a slum, thanks to that Barrie Tilghman.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I would LOVE to oppose Ireton, I agree with his position in this instance.
ReplyDeleteGood for Mayor Ireton. Couldn't agree more - the law needs to be enforced and actually I like the slum property of the week idea - Slumlords if you don't want your property on the city's website, police your properties and get them up to par and you won't have anything to worry about. Take some of that money that you are charging those people too much to rent from you and fix 'em up and shut up.
ReplyDeleteNo Ireton isnt being a stand up for his word kind of guy, what he is being is a coward because he wont meet up with them and face them and answer anything ...hes a Coward!!!! and just incase anyone hasnt noticed... land lords are taxpayers too, they pay a majority of the taxes in Salisbury... Jim Ireton needs to realize they have a right to be heard as well... Ireton thinks that being mayor means he is the dictator... haha let me spell that word another way lmao!!
ReplyDeleteGo, Jim!
ReplyDeleteSo 7:35 thinks people are childish for saying "go get 'em." Tough.
ReplyDeleteEnforcing the law is not childish and people sick of a city that has been bent over for a special interest group have a right to say "go get 'em."
I came here 10 years ago from a place where something like refusing an inspection was serious business. I've watched this poor city decline over that time, badly in some sections. Never saw such crime either! If conditions don't improve, my husband and I will move back within five years because that's what we figure it will take in this economy. Shame because we do like it here in many ways.
daily times article about it this morning.
ReplyDeletesapoa president says they have no way to work with the city now.
that's just about the dumbest thing i've ever heard.
have they tried just sitting down with the mayor or an elected representative and sharing ideas?
i think i'll call the governor of delaware and demand he meet with me at the conflict resolution center.
you people in salisbury are nuts!
SAPOA needs to fold and go away.
ReplyDeleteYou have ruined the City!
Way to go, mayor! He doesn't have to meet with this special interest group that has been running the city for so long. SAPOA, you have to follow the laws just like the rest of us. What is really childish is the SAPOA members who think they can bully their way into government again. Just follow the laws and there will be no conflict, it is as simple as that.
ReplyDeleteThank God a Mayor and Code & Compliance Dept that want to clean up Salisbury, from all the years home owners and landlords escaped with Barrie Tilghman, it is a new day. Congratulations on a job well done. If we want to bring people and business to Salisbury this is the way to go, don't listen to the grumblers, it's only because they have gotten away with it for soooo long. This is what SAPOA should have been doing, policing their own!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope that youmove this to the top of the posts for today.
ReplyDelete"and just incase anyone hasnt noticed... land lords are taxpayers too, they pay a majority of the taxes in Salisbury... "
ReplyDeleteThis guy is an idiot. The rent that a tenant pays covers taxes, which are a cost of doing business. There's no way that these landlords, snapping up properties in the neighborhood of $50,000, aren't making a killing on their $1200 - $1600 monthly rents. If they had to pay the taxes out of THEIR OWN POCKETS, they wouldn't be in business.
As I am reading this blog I am listening to my scanner and all I hear is Bill Gordy running unneccesarily on calls that he shouldn't be running on. He is not wanted or needed in that position. He is wasting gas and tax dollars. Mayor Ireton why are you letting him control you and your decision making. Quit being a pansy and get rid of him like you promised.
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