OCEAN CITY -- A whirlwind of events took place at City Hall last Thursday and Friday, culminating ultimately in City Manager Dennis Dare tendering his resignation pending an accord on conditions and terms. Here’s a timeline of events: Thursday, Sept. 8 4 p.m.: Without City Solicitor Guy Ayres or City Manager Dennis Dare in attendance, Mayor and Council meet in council chambers and vote to convene in closed session “to discuss the appointment, employment, assignment, removal...
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Having previously worked and dealt with OC City Hall - for well over a decade - on a daily basis I - would like to chime-in.
ReplyDeleteOcean City's government has been out of control since Mayor Kelly left office. It used to be a very nice place to work, live, and do business. All that changed when they decided to go to the City Management form of government. You have department heads making 6 digit incomes and the work is seasonal. Moreover - virtually all departments are frought with corruption, waste, fraud, & abuse. What transpired is that when Mayor Kelly left office - the taxpayers could no longer hold their government accountable to the people. Instead - the government departments - held the property owners hostage to their own empire schemes. That government still holds true to this very day.
Early one morning one day - I went down to Granville's office - (former City Councilman) - and informed him that there would be a time when they - (gov. officials) - would turn on him. The event happened when he found himself working - (with all his assets) - being targeted with high property taxes in excess of 1 million dollars a year.
As the old saying goes;
'What goes around comes around'
To 8:28 - Amen brother.
ReplyDeleteI hope that one of the OC residences stands-up and reads word for word what you have just said to the Ocean City Council.
That is exactly why I didn't vote for Mathias as our Maryland Senator. If people only knew the half about the inner workings of OC they would never stray to their streets.