Clayton.Talk

By Michael

December 8, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

If all of the BOC members received contributions from the Stephens group, and they all recused themselves, then who would be left to approve or deny the request? Should we go down that path, then anyone who wishes to do anything that requires BOC approval need only contribute to all candidates for BOC positions to assure their request will not be denied by the Board.

Having said that, I think an audit should be done, and it should be an annual thing. it is my belief that substantially all politicians are crooks and need to be watched very, very closely.

By WTF?

December 8, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

I don’t have an answer as to who should have made the decision if the BOC recused themselves from the vote, but if they always vote in favor of their campaign contributors then nothing good in Clayton will ever be accomplished because the developers and those with money in Clayton will always have the upper hand and will be granted whatever they want.

When will the BOC and school board do something for their constituents who elected them into office? Do you have to give them money to get your voice heard around here?

I can agree that we need to start watching our elected officials more closely. I was at the BOC meeting last week and you can’t convince me that a few of them weren’t a little nervous when that guy threatened an investigation, showed on their faces. Even Virginia Gray seemed taken aback and she’s outta there in a few weeks.

By Now Now

December 8, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Investigate the BOC on the subject of the delapidated cemetary? - what a complete waste of taxpayers dollars. Others stuff maybe - but not for a bunch of dead people and their uncaring decendents out for a buck.

By Black Woman In Clayco

December 8, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Maybe investigating the BOC over this graveyard site will be the investigation that brings out a whole lotta other “stuff” going on with the BOC. Like with the school board’s land deal, that investigation opened other closets and skeletons flew in all directions.

By taylormade

December 8, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

boring, wake me up when you find something interesting to blog about.

By Melanie Lee

December 8, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Thank you Kimberly for posting this blog and asking the right questions. The foolishness in Clayton County must not be allowed to continue.

There are many unanswered questions about the budget. I, too, would welcome a full forsenic audit as BOC members have stated in the media that they are unsure about specifics regarding the County’s budget. Hello? Isn’t that your part of your powers and duties? Please check the link Kimberly provided about the BOC: http://www.co.clayton.ga.us/commissioners/powers_duties.htm

Please read items #1-10, esp. 2, 4, 6, and 7. They are responsible for managing taxes, county monies, and all audits.

When oh when will we have transparency in Clayton County government? Voters, please pay attention…..

By Oh please

December 8, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

I agree with Now Now. Aside from the fact that the cemetery should be moved just on principle of respecting the dead, why waste tax payer dollars on this issue? If you must then, do an internal audit and found out what happened to all the taxpayer’s money! I am thoroughly disgusted with the situation with this cemetery. No one really cares about the deceased. This issue is about money!!

By Gilligan & Skipper

December 8, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Short answer yes! Next year Clayton County will be in dire economic conditions. The only alternative will be to cut services or raise taxes. What services could be cut? Recreation, Library? Senior services? Or, Will they raise taxes and take more of our money during this economic depression? In any event, we will get the shaft!

By Why'd you ask

December 8, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Ah, Commentor, was your answer yes or no…are you trying to take Kimberly’s job?

By The Commenter

December 8, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Here are the answers to Kimberly Allen’s questions that she asked in her blog topic for the week.

Do you consider this situation a conflict of interest? Answer: Yes, I consider the above situation a serious conflict of interest.

Should some of the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners members have recused themselves from this vote? Answer: It is my opinion that the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners had to vote on this matter but because they received campaign contributions from Stephens MDS and because they should have known how their vote would look in the eyes of the citizens of Clayton County, espcially these family members who would be affected emotionally by a vote not in their favor, all four present should in my opinion done the ethical, proper, and respectful thing and voted against Stephens MDS request to relocate the Union Bethel AME Church’s cemetery until Stephens MDS and the families involved discussed this very delicate and sensitive matter in great detail and come to an mutual and agreeable decision to the satifaction of both parties involved so that when it would come up to a vote again, both parties would be satisified with the vote and this matter would have a positive and peaceful resolution.

Are you in favor of an investigation of our Clayton County Board Of Commissioners by the state of Georgia’s attorney general and the state ethics committee? Why or why not? Answer: I am very much in favor of the State of Georgia’s attorney general and the state ethics committee doing a full, complete, comprehensive, and detailed investigation of the entire Clayton County Board Of Commissioners but not in this matter, but in the matter of the Clayton County Finance Department and all of the missing monies and monies not accounted for and other serious problems detailed in the KPMG financial audit which exposed serious problems in the Clayton County Finance Department which also led to the shocking and alarming revelation by Chairman Eldrin Bell that he did not know of this problem and that he was unaware that their was a problem in the Finance Department, despite the fact that he is the Full-Time Chairman and his position is Full-Time and that he is the direct supervisor and overseer of the Director of the Finance Department Mrs. Angela Jackson and is suppose to regularly monitor and provide complete oversight of the department and report to the other four Commmissioners of Clayton County any potiential or serious problems of the department even before they occur.

This investigation should began after a full, complete, detailed, and comprehensive Forensic Audit has been done of the entire Clayton County Finance Department as well as on the over twenty-seven (27) governmental departments of Clayton County that provide basic and essential services to the citizens of Clayton County and after this Forensic Audit reveals, documents, and list in great detail the deep, far-reaching, widespread, extensive, massive, broad, immense, and enormous corruption, fraud, masappropriation of monies, pilfering, divertion of monies to personal use, misuse, pocketing, unaccounted monies, and theft that many of the citizens of Clayton County know what is going on in Clayton County’s government and how all five of the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners all look the other way, do nothing about, exert no leadership to stop this massive corruption and illegal activities, pretend like nothing is happening when they all know who is doing what and who is the beneficator of all of these illegal activites that go on, and willfully, purposefully, and consciously chose do nothing about this.

If all five Clayton County Board Of Commissioners and its Chairman vote not to approve that a full, complete, detailed, and comprehensive Forensic Audit be done immediately on the Clayton County Finance Department, all twenty-sever (27) plus Clayton County Government Departments and all other areas that receive taxpayers monies, unfortunately we will be forced to concluded that all five Clayton County Board Of Commissioners only care about themselves and what they can get out of the county for there own personal interests, care about only protecting the companies, corporations, businesses, and well-connected rich, wealthy, and well-to-do citizens and doing their bidding, command, orders, and are at their twenty-four (24) hour beck-and-call because they are all beholden, obligated, bound, indebted and enslaved to them because of campaign contributions that they all received from them that enabled them to run and win election to their respective political office, and do not care about the best interests of the citizens of Clayton Couny and cleaning up Clayton County of all of the corruption, graft, stealing, illegally pocketing, stealing, robbing, and pilfering monies, materials, and supplies of Clayton County etc. that is continues to go one each and every day.

By PHJ

December 8, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

The Commenter is apparently well educated in everything except the use of run on sentences.

By whatever

December 8, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

The Commenter is well versed in most things EXCEPT brevity. posters who use that much space in a blog are trolls. No matter how educated they may be.

By John Stewart

December 8, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Commenter if you are a woman I want to hug you. If you a man I need to shake your hand.

Finally someone has done a comprehensive break down of Clayton County Politics over the last 20 plus years. I am sick and tired of Clayton County being the stepchild of the State. I am tired of the Kleptocracy that has been allowed to run this county for past 20 plus years. I am tired of Clayton County looking like a 2 bit dump when you drive up Tara Blvd and see Motels, Loan Shark Loan companies, Sex Shops and run down backyard car dealers.

This down turn in the economy may be a good thing in that it has finally exposed the greed, self aggrandizement, dishonesty and moral turpitude of the past and present BOC.

Citizens do you not see the that the dirty secrets of the county are being brought to light? Greed is finally exposing its dirty deeds. First walking small and his lawsuits now the recession has thrown Clayton Counties delicate political/financial Eco system out of whack.

The calling of a Forensic Audit is scaring the crap out of the BOC and I suspect many who fear they will be exposed for collusion and having had their hands in the Counties cookie jar for some time.

By Important Information

December 8, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Clayton County citizens of all race, creed, economic background, etc. need to attend the next business meeting of the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners on Tuesday December 16, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. at the Clayton County Administrative Building on 112 Smith Street which is the street off to the left of Tara Boulevard on the side where the Burger King and Captain D’s is located and sign up to speak on the Public Commemt Section after the business meeting is over on the need for all five Clayton County Board Of Commissioners to vote and approve that a Forensic Audit be done on the Clayton County Finance Department and the over 27 governmental departments of the county that receive taxpaper monies to carry out its duties and responsibilities for the citizens of Clayton County so that public trust and confidence can be restored in the counties’ finances.

By Mandingo Ethics

December 8, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

All you Claytonites, are crying about the actions of your local county officials, STOP CRYING. You guys keep crying about “Unethical Actions”, and the “Majority Populous” that voted for them.

Your local officials are only imitating “Your Governor Sonny, remember the Houston County Deal and Florida Land Deals Sonny had mentioned in the last election. We saw all you Repubs Claytonites led around by the nose by Sonny and voted in MASSIVE Volume for Sonny.

Now look at your “State Government” Financial Situation, 1. 6 Billion Dollars in the hole. You Simple-minded Swine, keep talking about “Fiscal Responsibility and Management Abilities”.

Cry to Someone Else, I’m not hearing it!! On top of that Sonny followed Dubya Bush Lead. HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!

By Mandingo Ethics

December 8, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Definitions to Live by

CONFLICT OF INTEREST A conflict between the public and private interests of somebody in an official position, or conflicts between a number of public positions

Promote fairness, equality, and impartiality in providing services to the County

Treat citizens and co-workers with respect, compassion, and dignity

Demonstrate diligence, competence, and integrity in the performance of assigned duties

ETHICS

ETHICS 1) study of morality’s effect on conduct, examination of moral standards and how they affects conduct.

2) code of morality, a system of moral principles governing the appropriate
conduct for a person or group.

MORALS 1) involving right and wrong, relating to issues of right and wrong and to how individual people should behave.

2) derived from personal conscience, based on what somebody’s conscience
suggests is right or wrong, rather than on what rules or how the law should be done.

3) according to common standard of justice, regarded in terms of what is known to be right or just , as opposed to what is officially or outwardly declared to be right or just.

4) good by accepted standards, good or right, when judged by the standards
of the average person or society at large.

By Blast from Past

December 9, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Mandingo - it is funny to find you talking about ethics - seeing as how your involvment in the BOE the last 10 years have been disasterous for the school system and county.

By Just Stating The Facts

December 9, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

The disappointing, pathetic, and shameful truth and fact is that the State Of Georgia’s laws, rules, regulations, and standards are notorious weak, toothless, lax, and soft and that the entire Clayton County Board Of Commissioners and its Chairman as well as their past predecessors and well as virtually all Clayton County Elected Officials at the federal, state, and local levels take full advantage of this.

This has ultimately led to virtually all of them acting and passing legislations and laws that benefit and favor the people, companies, businesses, and corporations that gave them campaign contributions and other monies that enabled them to run and eventually win their respective political office and seat at the local, state, and federal level.

It is my personal opinion that this political system although legal, is severely unethical and flawed and this ultimately leads to people who are elected to public office as in the case of many of Clayton County’s elected officials both present and past acting in corrupt, dishonest, unethical, shady, deceitful, untrustworty, untruthful, treacherous, insincere, crooked, and reprehensible ways, only caring about themselves and voting on and passing laws and policies that benefit the people who put them in office and not passing laws and policies that help or benefit the citzens that put them in their political office.

This is what has happen in Clayton County where this once proud county is now the laughingstock of virtually everyone who knows about this county.

Because Clayton County’s past and present elected officials and politicians have passed laws and policies that we all now see were not in the best interests of the citizens of Clayton County and have caused Clayton County to essentially become a home of virtually all of Atlanta, Georgia’s Section 8 housing project and ghetto people, youths, young adults and teen-agers which has led to a marked and dramatic increase in Clayton County’s crime rate, trash, filth, nastiness, clutter, neglected, unclean, and dilapidated pockets of areas all throughout Clayton County, and have eventually led to Clayton County becoming a “ghetto, gangster, and thug looking,” trash-filled, nasty looking, cluttered, messy, run-down, dilapidated, neglected, blighted, deteriorating, decayed, crime and gang filled, crime and gang infested, and crime and gang overrun county that is falling apart, crumbling, rapidly falling downward, in a negative spiral downward, rapid decline, with virtually no hope of recovery, repair, positive correction and reversal no time soon.

Because of the wrongs done to Clayton County by its past and present elected officials at the local, state, and federal level and the noncaring, disinterested, “looking out for their own interests and not the best interests of the citizens of Clayton County” behaviors, actions, and activities of Clayton’s present elected officials and politicians, and their lack of leadership, vision, and work ethic for this county, Clayton County has essentially been made a “third world” low-class, backward, nonprogressive, and ghetto county, where no sane, right-thinking, professional, person with the right standards, morals, and class with their children who are successful in the public schools that they attend would ever want to move here to live, work, play, and raise a family.

The state of Georgia’s attorney general office as well as the Georgia’s State Ethics Committee should have investigated many of Clayton County’s Present and Past Elected Officials long ago, but even if such an investigation is done, it is already too late in that the severe, awful, and extreme damage, destruction, harm, hurt, injury, and devastation has already been done to Clayton County that will take decades or even a century of time to repair.

By PHJ

December 9, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

John Stewart, would you like to shake the hand of “By Just Stating The Facts” also? That one and Commenter are apparently the same person, if that tells you anything. Yes, there is truth in the content although you have to question the motive.

By huh?

December 9, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

If anyone in this county truly cared about the antics of our boc they would never have voted Eldrin back in. He’s got this county in a stranglehold & benefactors up the wazoo to keep him there.

By Yep

December 9, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

He is still better than the 2 old white Judases we had before him - Crandell and Bray.

By John Stewart

December 9, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

I would like to shake the hand of someone who genuinely cared for the county and not someone who appeared to care for the county yet had clandestine motives.

I really hope we the citizens of the county understand that what is going on in the county is not a black/white issue but a greed issue.

1Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the ROOT of ALL evil……..

By Just Stating The Obvious

December 10, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

The blunt, sad, ugly, but direct truth is that the citizens of Clayton County which are now a majority of African (Black) Americans who even though some are outstanding, hard-working, ethical, moral, honest, and raising good solid families are apathetic, disinterested, tolerant, permissive, lenient, and just tend to look away, accept, not really care about, and allow the people who we elected to public office in Clayton County to do as they please in passing laws and policies that just benefit, enrich, and profit themselves and the rich, wealthy, well-connected and well-to-do people who live in Clayton county and also outside the county and not care about nor do they want to care about the best interests of the citizens of Clayton County and working for and on behalf of the Clayton County citizens who elected them to public office in the first place.

The good majority African (Black) Americans do not hold the Clayton County Elected Officials at the local, state, and federal level who are now super majority African (Black) Americans accountable, answerable, and responsible for the poor, bad, and corrupt decisions that they made each and every day that only profit themselves and not the citizens of Clayton County just as the good majority Caucasian (White) Americans that populated Clayton County in the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s did not hold the Clayton County Elected Officials at the local, state, and federal level who were super majority to exclusivelly 100% Caucasian (White) Americans accountable, answerable, and responsible for the decisions that they made that ultimately had a far reaching ,widespread, extensive, negative, destructive and devastational impact on Clayton County and how it looks today which is just horrific, horrifying, terrible, awful, bad, shocking, disgusting, revolting, hideous, and repulsive because they were in public office for well over fifty years compared to the only four plus years that the African (Black) Americans have held a super majority of Clayton County’s Elected Positions at the local, state, and federal level.

Until the good citizens of Clayton County as a whole start to really care, be concerned, be outraged at the extreme, extensive, widespread, and far-reaching corruption, mess, dishonesty, shady double-dealing, insincerity, lack of integrity, lack of ethics and morals, deceitfulness, untrustworthiness, and untruthfulness of many of Clayton County’s Elected Public Officials and start to attend in huge, massive, and overwhelming numbers to the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners Monthly Meetings, the Clayton County School Board Of Education’s Monthly Meeting and signing up for Public Comment at the end of these meetings and speaking out and holding all of these elected officials and others “feet to the fire” and hold them all accountable, answerable, responsible, liable, and culpable (this word means deserving blame) for the decisions and policies that they are making and passing as a majority voting group that are becoming the law of the land in Clayton County that for the most part, are not in the best interest of the Clayton County citizens, Clayton County will continue to be the laughingstock, riducle, and embarrassment that it is right now with virtually no hope of ever regaining respectability or a county where the morally, ethically, honest, hard-working, involved, decent, and right people of all races, creed, nationalities, and high socioeconomic status and standing would ever want to come to live, work, play, have fun, shop, and set down “roots” and raise their children.

By taylor

December 10, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I think the AJC should be investigated

By Man,,,=^..^=,,,go

December 10, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

The “once” proud Clayton residents are the “current” stupid residents. If you honestly think Clayton County was going to stay the same as it was in the 70s, 80s or 90s, you have honestly lost your minds. In and around every major city in America, there’s been what some call “Urban Sprawl” or “Growth “or another similar word “Progress”.

The only difference with Clayton County is its “Once” proud politicians didn’t have the foresight or wasn’t wise enough to prevent the old landfill off 285 and Moreland from existing, that wouldn’t draw high-end residents. Didn’t have the foresight enough to see Airport Expansion and the “perceived dangers that lay therein, that wouldn’t draw high-end residents”.

However, they were greedy enough to get in bed with pawn shop, liquor store, strip mall, payday loaners owner and Greedy Housing Contractor and the like. Don’t get me wrong building “Affordable Housing” wasn’t all bad, the problem was Bush trashed America’s jobs and started the “Mortgage Meltdown” which lead to the Government’s Repossession of its FHA Home Loans and Issuance of its Section 8 vouchers which has had a “Ripple Effect” on residents of all races.

I hear back in the day Clayton County was known as “Dump or Landfill” anyway. Now you guys are screaming about “Landfill Expansion”. What you have is the same people continuing to “Steal” the same money. You know Atlanta’s Southside current history, the “Dirt Deal Guy” is the same as the “Land Deal Guy” is the same as the Landfill Guy”.

Clayton County’s “Once Proud” residents and politicians created the situation the county’s in today. I also remember Clayton County back in the day; to Mandingo people it was known as a place where the white cops constantly stopped blacks for DWB (Driving While Black) and other Racially Profiled Actions.

Clayton County hasn’t always been good; you were just looking at it through “Rose Colored Glasses” everything was pink with your local government and all. You should’ve got up and done something with your life; instead of sitting on your laurels, inheriting and living in your parents Clayton County homes.

If you want a “Nice” rural 1960s type environment and neighborhoods, I suggest you move immediately farther south to southern Butts, Spaulding, Lamar, Upson or Pike counties. Come to a “Realization” its 2008 the “Urban Sprawl” has begun and its “NO” turning back.

With “Urban Sprawl” come the same crime, trails and tribulations you guys are “Crying about on this blog. Grow Up, and Deal with it or move your “Crying A$$” OUT.

By Yep

December 10, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Sorry what should have said - Eldrin Bell is still better than the 2 old white Judases we had before him - Crandell Bray and Charlie Griswell. If you want to find why the county was able to decline so fast, it was these 2 in bed with any developer with money to line Bray and Griswell’s pockets and of their family members. Cheap, overbuilt, dense housing did it and that started 20 years ago. That led to the dumping of ATL projects into Clayton. It will happen in Henry Co. next. At least Fayette has rules, 1 or 2 acres per house. I think in CLayton it is 8 houses to an acre, ridiculous. Stand firm, Fayette.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

December 10, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Blast from Past aka Bob Hartley, Just Stating The Obvious, John Stewart, The Commenter. You are all sad cases. You fought like hell to put your Clayton County Commission Chairman in office. The swine vote took him over the top. Now you have to pay through the “Nose!!!!

By Politico Insider

December 10, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Your newly elect District Attorney is using the AJC and local Media to establish a “Racial Profile for your children. That Profile is “three or more black kids congregated is considered a GANG, then MASS prosecute Black Kids over the summer. Watch this KLAN MOVE coming to pass in Clayton County. Yep, paying through the Nose

By Get Your Facts Straight

December 11, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Politico Insider - GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT SON!

3 or more congregated of ANY race has been considered a gang for a VERY long time now.

Sounds like our newly elected DA is just enforcing laws already on the books & I for one say it’s ABOUT DAMN TIME SOMEBODY DID!!! BECAUSE WE KNOW JEWEL SCOTT WASN’T DOING NOTHING!!!

Clean the trash out of Clayton, I don’t care if that trash is black, white, red, or what color/nationality they are!! If these kids wanna play like they hard core, then take the punishment.

By Mmm hmmm ....

December 11, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Like others I do believe the BOC should be investigated. Hell they should’ve been investigated long ago! But not for the graveyard site, there are plenty of other “indiscretions” the county commission could and should be investigated for, particularly Eldrin Bell. I don’t know why you people keep electing him. Fulton didn’t want him. DeKalb didn’t want him, that should’ve told you all something. He is bought and paid for, and not by his constituents.

By Mmm hmmm ....

December 11, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

oh yeah it’s a shame it took the NAACP guy and a totally unrelated issue to get you all to talk about having your board members investigated. Thank God I don’t live in Clayton anymore. I feel for the good residents who are stuck.

By The Observor

December 11, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Because of the past actions of its previous Chairman Crandle Bray and his two buddies on the Board Of Commissioners Charlie Griswell and Gerald Matthews, the actions of its present Chairman Eldrin Bell and his Commissioners Virginia Gray, Michael Edmondson as well as Sonna Singleton and Wole Ralph and actions by the current Sheriff Victor Hill, District Attorney Jewel Scott and others, Clayton County is known by all who live inside the county and those outside the county to be a very corrupt and crooked county where it is held in low esteem, disdain, with no redeeming values, decent or any honest hardworking politicans who work for the citizens best interests or on their behalf.

Clayton County is a county that is imploding, explosing, and blowing up from within with all of its corruption, dirt, unclean hands, immoral, unethical, crooked, and deceitful politics and wrongful decisions and policies that are made and implemented every day that are against the best interests of its citizens and this county as a whole being exposed and laid wide open for everyone to see on the daily news and read about in the daily newspapers who live in other counties all throughout the state of Georgia.

By Jborodawg

December 11, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

The cemetery needs to be moved. I can’t fathom why one descendant is against the move; in its present location it can’t even be visited.

I totally agree with The Commenter: “..I am very much in favor of the State of Georgia’s attorney general and the state ethics committee doing a full, complete, comprehensive, and detailed investigation of the entire Clayton County Board Of Commissioners but not in this matter, but in the matter of the Clayton County Finance Department and all of the missing monies and monies not accounted for and other serious problems detailed in the KPMG financial audit which exposed serious problems in the Clayton County Finance Department which also led to the shocking and alarming revelation by Chairman Eldrin Bell that he did not know of this problem and that he was unaware that their was a problem in the Finance Department, despite the fact that he is the Full-Time Chairman and his position is Full-Time and that he is the direct supervisor and overseer of the Director of the Finance Department Mrs. Angela Jackson and is suppose to regularly monitor and provide complete oversight of the department and report to the other four Commmissioners of Clayton County any potiential or serious problems of the department even before they occur…”

Then, this morning we read that they voted to ‘hire’ the fire chief as chief of staff; all the while there’s a freeze on hiring and the budget is overdrawn. Amazingly, Bell voted against it.

But, yes, there should be an investigation and meaningful, enforceable audit. What good does it do to investigate only to have the BOC shelve the results?

By nospin

December 11, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

The forum has been restored at: http://www.give-em-the-boot.com/

By Kimberly Allen

December 11, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

**FYI

Congressman David Scott will hold a Leadership Forum on Saturday, December 12 from 10:00am to Noon** at the National Archives, 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow.

The Clayton County Board of Education will provide an opportunity for Public Participation at the December 15 work session. Public Participation has been scheduled as one of the initial items on Monday night’s agenda. The work session will begin at 6:30 p.m.

The Board has made this opportunity available due to scheduling issues caused by the holiday seasons in November and December.

Rules established through policy BCBI will govern this opportunity to address the Board. *Anyone interested in publicly addressing the Board on Monday will need to inform Arlecia Battle by 4:30 p.m. on December 15, by calling at 770-473-2966, or e-mailing her at abattle@clayton.k12.ga.us. *

By Taxpayer

December 11, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

We should be asking if the BOE should be invetigated? Where are they on the mandates? An earlier blog asked what can we do to turn Clayton county around? Get our accreditation back!

By Michael

December 11, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

Congressman David Scott holding a leadership forum? Using his name and leadership together is definitely an oxymoron.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

December 11, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

State Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox and her husband John, a homebuilder, have filed for personal bankruptcy, claiming more than $3.5 million in liabilities and less than $650,00 in assets, according to court documents. Now she’s going to address Clayton County School Board. WOW, what will she talk about “Fiscal Responsibly”.

I think all of your letters to the Congressional Black Caucus, U.S Department of Education and some of you wrote Michelle Obama may be paying off. Now I think the State will made a “Legitimate Effort” to give you your “Accreditation” back. You have to remember they only took accreditation to get your Black Folk attention and money.

The state is trying to head off “National Attention”, about why they actually took your accreditation. Some reasons: They want you to stop voting along color lines, they want you and your school system to continue to contract with the same people they been contracting with for years. They are even bringing in a “Libertarian Party Headquarters” to Clayton.

Don’t worry accreditation is NEAR! Never mind any eight or nine Mandates. The New school board won’t have to do a thing, watch and see! The whole thing was a KLAN MOVE.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

December 11, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Get Your Facts Straight,you KLAN three, four,five,six,seven,eight, nine ten Black Kids congregating around a basketball court or sandlot football field is not a GANG. However, I they scare the hell out of you, but to us their our kids.

By Dat Right

December 12, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

If 3 or more BOC members congregate, is that gang activity? I think so… dey fools!!!

By TRUTH PROBE

December 12, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

Feds to Clayton schools: Ditch Chick-fil-A or forfeit $14 million

Sports teams and band boosters will no longer sell Chick-fil-A sandwiches during school hours in Clayton County schools. Clayton County schools have until Friday to rid their campuses of junk food during school hours or they face losing $14.8 million in federal funding.

“In order to protect ourselves and follow federal guidelines, we have to do this,” Clayton schools spokesman Charles White said. “We have to make sure we don’t lose any money.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture banned non-nutritious breakfasts and lunches from schools as a requirement for schools to receive money under the National School Lunch Program. The USDA provides $37 million to Clayton to serve breakfast and lunch to about 74 percent of the district’s 50,000 students.

The USDA threatened to withhold 40 percent of the money when state and federal officials discovered Chick-fil-A sandwiches being sold during lunch at Mount Zion and Mundy’s Mill high schools. Last Fall, inspectors returned for a second visit and found Mount Zion High School was still breaking the rules, said Matt Cardoza, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Education. Chick-fil-A employees were selling sandwiches and sharing the profits with a student organization.

Federal regulations allow other foods — such as Chick-fil-A — to be sold during school hours, as long as all of the proceeds go to the school or student organizations.

NOTE: I told you there were underhanded dealings going on in Clayton County School System by the GREEDY. Chick-fil-A should have been giving the KIDS all the PROCEEDS for well over TEN (10) years. You “CHEATING, THEIVING, CHRISTIAN SWINES!

By Printwerx

December 12, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

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By Mount Zion Mother

December 12, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this

Are you telling me this good upstanding business have been stealing from the children of the county for well over ten yaers. There should be some kind of penalty that Chick-fil-A have to pay. Income Tax evasion or something. Wow!

By Blast from the Present

December 12, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Printwerx aka Bob Hartley, noone want to buy your crap! Don’t you we’re in a “Recession” and a Housing Despression! Get a “REAL JOB!

By Dat Right

December 12, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Is anybody hirin’? I juss got kicked out ov my momma’s trailer. Will work for dental benefits and a 6 pak of suds.

By Resident

December 12, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

Happy So-Called Holidays CLayton County Residents, Good or Indifferent!

By Keep Christ in Christmas

December 15, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Thanks Printwerx for the banner. It is beautiful!

By Blast from Past

December 15, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Altho I, Blast from Past, am not Hartley - I think Hartley’s heart is in the right place.

John Trotter - your “little fox peering over the fence” blog name is cute - think that one up yourself or was it G.D. Or should I call you “Truth Probe” or any of a miriade of names you use on the blog. Take away the few real bloggers and you are just talking and answering to yourself. I know - that isn’t anything new for you.

Sad to see you go after a man and family who have contributed so much to this county and its schoolchildren. Even sadder to find fools that tend to believe you. Just a case of money envy. Is that the second type of “envy complex” you have manifested? Or maybe third?

By Bsf

December 22, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

First off I want to say there a lot of foolish people in georgia because why would you how could you ever fix your mind to think fight for something that should’nt ever been done was a waste of tax payer money these were slaves see the problem is black was’nt respected then and still not respected now after being stole from there families rape beatting and killed or die as slave no respect that want to move there bodies an put them where, is my question I think there is only one person whom shall dig up bodies and move them after they have been put to rest and there is no one in clayton county or on the commission whom should have that right and thats the man up above and further more I think now now is very foolish because this is worth taxs payers dollar not because people wanted to know who in who’s pocket but because these slave deserve the one thing no one has ever giving them and thats respect this was stayed as they final resting place yet they still can’t have peace I look at it as dont you think they have endured enough they never had anything can’t they at lease have death oo no blacks are not allowed to have anything these should’nt ever been about money it should be about peace respect understanding and most of all love I think it should be investigated and I also think if you all wanted crooks to run clayton county then so be it but why have a election that problemly was fixed to. but lets just sit back and let the prisoner run it crooks is crooks so why should it matter if the crook has money and power or the crook have nothing your going to get same out come a cluster of messes I think clayton county need a change all the way around from the top to the bottom .