Gee, isn't it interesting how I personally confronted the Mayor and Council asking them IF the old Fire Station included the waterfront lots and they said NO. It's on the record, yet they scammed yet another deal with a FORMER City Council Member Palmer Gillis for $100,000.00, yet it was NEVER advertised as waterfront property and or with an additional two lots.
Mayor Ireton better start asking his Staff to go back and review that PAC14 disk because I'm telling you right here and now, my case is truly open and shut. NONE of the Press are talking about all of these things. That's OK because our local audience is larger than theirs anyway.
class action law suit from the citizens of Salisbury.
ReplyDeleteOh, my.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much the city will have to spend trying to defend these idiots?
Let's keep track.
Does the city have the money to pay for the brand new work boots the new fire chief is buying for each and every employee? They better because work boots aren't cheap!!
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean the new fire chief will be buying brand new work boots for all the volunteers in the city? I hope so since it is only fair. Why would the paid guys get new work boots but the volunteers wouldn't? Where is this money coming from? I thought the city didn't have money and had to furlough the police and firefighters? Where did the new fire chief find several thousand dollars to buy brand new work boots for the firefighters when the police and firefighters are losing pay due to furloughs? This doesn't make sense to the tax payers at all. If a new fire chief finds money in the budget to buy every employee brand new work boots then someone lied to the mayor and council about their wants and needs. This is one corrupt city and it looks like the new fire chief will fit in just fine.
This city is so corrupt, I really don't know if anyone can tell the truth, but I think not.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I don't live in the City of Salisbury. How pathetic.
ReplyDeleteHow about this for a name:
ReplyDeleteBrad's Bar & Grille
Just boycott what ever illegal business inhabits the fire house.
ReplyDeleteI live in Berlin and have been following all the crap that takes place in the City Council. I used to live in Salisbury and the good ole days go back to Paul Martin. These idiots are corrupt and have no sense of the real world. If you really believe that this will help rejuvinate downtown then I have a bridge to sell you in Los Vegas. I hope a law suite by Joe blows these idiots out of the water. Enough said!
ReplyDeleteOur lovely leaders often don't expect a citizen to get into a costly legal battle. Joe, if you have proof of your claims, I hope you are willing and able to see this through. Nothing aggrivates me more than the chosen few using their power and influence to line the pockets of one of their own. Good luck to you.
ReplyDeleteI heard of it for the first time last night thanks to Terry. I didn't like Ireton's cocky response that they'd gone over it.
ReplyDeleteIf the vollies worked they would get work boots.
ReplyDeleteJoe, we just hope you proceed as planned and sue everyone involved, Salisbury will be thankful.
ReplyDelete11:26- C'mon Brad, your little spoiled pompous self even shows through on an anonymous blog!
Time this case is heard in court all the council will no longer be in office. It takes two to three years for a murder trial so why should a law suit take less?
ReplyDelete11:26...how many times can you post that? Not sure why you think it's so funny or important. Try thinking outside the box.
ReplyDeleteI watched the City Council meeting on PAC-14. At first I was incredulous that such a beautiful, historic structure, along with surrounding land, would be going for $100,000. As everyone knows, one can buy only the smallest of "cookie cutter" houses for that amount of money.
ReplyDeleteBut then I listened to the remarks of those for and against the purchase, particularly the presentations made by Brad Gillis and his father, Palmer. If they were truthful--and they're not know to be shysters--they did follow procedures for placing their bid. They have every right to buy the building for such a paltry amount. Someone said last night that the Council should put the purchase on hold so that it could advertise the building in metro newspapers and other sorts of periodicals with a large readership. That's a good point, but such advertising should have been done long ago. Whoever is responsible for the advertising and handling of this property should be dealt with. So is it the Gillises' fault that they got this property so cheap? Wouldn't any one of us try to get the lowest price we could for a piece of property? Knowing the Gillises' record for renovating properties, they will spend a lot of money to justify their purchase. We should wish them well.
You call that waterfront? A foul smelling ditch in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe some members of the Council did not know what was at stake here with this sale. They could have at least done a walk through on these properties. What an injustice to the taxpayers!
ReplyDeleteHow can you buy or sell anything
of this magnitude without seeing
and knowing the facts. Sad day for Salisbury tax payers!
Palmer Gillis and his son sat there at the meeting smiling and giggeling with each other. They knew the deal was in the bag no matter what anyone said. The three stoogies made sure of that. I wanted to go over and kick the leggs from under the chair to bring them to their sences. They both were appauling. It is corruption at its best.
ReplyDeletesounds like this was an inside sale ..... the people of salisbury should be demanding a full investigation of this deal its shady and when there were offers to the city to sell for more than the $100,000 and they refused it that tells anyone with a brain that it was a crooked deal ... and what is planned and what it will be used for is disgusting and disrespectful to the many who served the fire dept and to basically destroy the history of the SFD ...... someone needs to call Ireton out on this one the people of Salisbury want answers ..... NOW not after the fact
ReplyDeleteJoe,
ReplyDeleteI would love to see you sue them and win. I emailed the council about this matter and the only one to respond was Debbie Campbell. I let them know that anyone who supports this sale will not only not get my vote come election time but I will do my best to aid the other side.
Doing something is better than sitting back and feeling helpless.
Melody K
Being the devil's advocate...certainly, the market value of the property is important.But that value depends upon the use to which the property is put.Giving the city leaders the benefit of the doubt,perhaps they felt and still feel that the long term use of the property i.e. how it is redeveloped, will have long term positive economic ramifications for downtown that far outweigh the difference in what Joe offered versus what was ultimately accepted......just a thought.
ReplyDeleteI am telling you -- the guy they hired as the fire chief is WRONG for the city. The Mayor and Council DID have the RIGHT candidate in mind earlier and is ficsally responsible -- but you get what you pay for. God help the City of Salisbury. I only hope the last guy they really wanted still wants the job after they get rid of this guy.
ReplyDeleteJoe, If the property is surplus then I feel it should go to the highest bidder. We have plenty of laws on the books to determine if the buyer puts it to a proper use. Please follow through with your suit. The city deserves better than this insider deal.
ReplyDeleteGary did himself in by voting on that legislation. He's the one who CHOSE not to sell it to Joe Albero under any circumstances. Clearly that was a conflict of interest on his part.
ReplyDelete2:14 "Palmer Gillis and his son sat there at the meeting smiling and giggeling with each other."
ReplyDeleteI am laughing trying to envision this...
Cory said...
ReplyDeletesounds like this was an inside sale ..... the people of salisbury should be demanding a full investigation of this deal its shady and when there were offers to the city to sell for more than the $100,000 and they refused it that tells anyone with a brain that it was a crooked deal ... and what is planned and what it will be used for is disgusting and disrespectful to the many who served the fire dept and to basically destroy the history of the SFD ...... someone needs to call Ireton out on this one the people of Salisbury want answers ..... NOW not after the fact
2:26 PM
It was an inside deal and I know because Ireton tried to sell me another valuable piece of city property for the same amount, $100,000!!
Salisbury Suckers:
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone recall that vacant lot that the City sold to another mayor's pal a few years back for peanuts.
This is deja-vu all over again!
Please tell the new State's Attorney (not the old one) about this ASAP.
ReplyDelete2:26-----Agreed----Amen!
ReplyDeleteIf the vollies worked they would get work boots.
ReplyDelete12:37 PM
The vollies save the city 60 thousand a month and also we take care of you all ass. We have to buy everything your riding around in and we buy what your sitting on.Your busy wasting tax payers money washing your trucks on duty and talkin on cell phones and having differnt ladys show up at station while your wife is at home stay all hours of the nite at the firehouse. Soo when you go running on the vollies think where you come from. Best they can do is fire you all and start all over cus you have done nutting but ruin this city and get rid of the new cheif too..
I agree with the guy from Berlin.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Terry Cohen called it out and that jerk Ireton and the lump Shields tried to put her down because they "discussed it." Sounds like they didn't have this shining in the light of day as much as they are claiming.
Ireton and his moles had to go digging in the paperwork to answer Cohen's simple question.
That Louise Smith and her stupid "11th hour" comment. Hey, if someone warns me at the 11th hour I'm about to drive off a cliff, I don't get mad at them for not telling me sooner. Smith, she'll just drive off the cliff anyway because she wasn't warned soon enough to suit her? Now that's the definition of stupid!
Got no beef with Gillises following the procedure. City screwed up the procedure. If smiling and giggling, know nothing about that, but if so, not what you'd call professional, so that's not a good sign. People downtown just own the properties, some fix them up, but they don't do nothing for downtown, so don't get why people think this is such a good thing.
To answer your question, no, all I ever heard was that the station was for sale. So that makes this riverfront deal sound like something they were try to sneak by and got caught with their drawers down.
Liar, liar, pants on fire?
Im sure Ireton and certain council members will enjoy striped sunlight..
ReplyDeleteIreton will be like Smithers from the Simpsons going to a Turkish prison