Tag: city hall
Annapolis City Hall To Be Renovated
According to Annapolis City spokesman, Phill McGowan, City Hall will be undergoing a “major renovation” in the coming months. The Department of Neighborhood and Environmental Programs (DNEP), which is currently on the second floor of City Hall (same floor as the Council Chambers) will be moved to 145 Gorman Street to better work with Planning [...]
Cohen Appoints Two
The City of Annapolis has confirmed two recent Mayoral appointments. Both Michelle LeFurge and Eugene Peterson will be working in the Mayor’s office. We reported on Peterson’s hiring several weeks ago. Both LeFurge and Peterson were key members of the Zina Pierre campaign with LeFurge serving as Campaign Manager and Peterson serving as Treasurer. According [...]
Too Valuable To Fire?
Ward 8 Alderman Ross Arnett feels that the Director of Finance is “way to valuable to fire.” Yesterday, during a press conference regarding the $150,000 theft from City Hall, this same Director of Finance admitted that he was not sure if the money was in the vault before he locked it and that it did [...]
Mayor Addresses $150,000 Theft (AUDIO)
This is the audio of Mayor Josh Cohen’s press conference this afternoon addressing the $150,000 theft from City Hall. In addition to the Mayor, Tim Elliott (Director of Finance) and Chief Pristoop (Chief of Police) address the room. The City does not have any suspect at this time and it appears that the vault area [...]
So, Mr. Mayor, What Now?
The last time I was in City Hall, the finance department was located right below the Mayor’s office, so this $150,000 was stolen literally right from under the Mayor’s nose! When you campaigned, your mission was to make Annapolis the best run city in the state of Maryland. Apparently some of those in your administration [...]
Level II Snow Warning For Annapolis
Mayor Issues Tweet Annapolis Mayor, Josh Cohen just issued a Tweet: Level II Snow Emergency in effect at 6 p.m. today. This means that residents must remove vehicles from designated Snow Emergency Routes. And from the City’s Website: Level II Storm Policy in Effect Based on the latest forecast, the city should receive 4 to [...]
The Curious Case Of Mr. Smith
Qualifications Questioned It seems that the Executive Director of the International city/Council Management Association (ICMA) wants to be very clear that the newly appointed Chief Administrative Officer, Doug Smith, is not credentialed by the organization, nor does he appear to be in the process as reported in The Capital on December 5, 2009. Anyone who [...]
Maryland Prepares For Major Snow
Annapolis Prepares For Major Overtime The area is bracing for a major snowstorm. All of the weather-guessers are excited and trying to outguess the other one. They are even starting to lay pre-blame for a botched forecast. This morning, we heard ranges from 2″ to 4″ up to 12″ to 18″ with a disclaimer that [...]
Six Jobs=$22,000
Fuzzy Math The Capital (scroll down, last story) is reporting that the six jobs eliminated by Mayor Cohen have saved the City $22,000. Hardly the drastic change anyone was expecting.
Update On Cohen’s Ax
Mayor Sort Of Clarifies Cuts The Mayor’s Office just released an update to the press release of yesterday. Today, it indicates that there were six positions eliminated. They also eliminated an Assistant Public Information Officer. Cohen’s office is now claiming that the only two vacant positions were the Chief Information Officer and the Special Assistant [...]
Cohen Announces Team
Core Adminitstration Team Names Released In a 10:00am press conference this morning, incoming Mayor-Elect Joshua J. Cohen announced several members of his administration which he has dubbed his “Core Administration Team”. If nothing else, some of these appointments prove the adage “politics makes strange bedfellows.” Cohen had pledged to change the way business was done [...]
Annapolis Election Recap
A New Regime Set To Take Reins At City Hall Well, as was to be expected, 68% of the voters in Annapolis did not bother to turn out and vote. How disappointing. Even more so when you consider that close to 100% of the voters were clamoring for change–any change–at City Hall! Wake up Annapolis, [...]
Trudy McFall Responds
McFall Responds To Negative Site The following statement was just released from the McFall campaign: I have run a campaign promising real reform at City Hall and an end to the status quo. This anonymous website, with its smear tactics, is clearly an attempt to defeat me and protect the status quo. These tactics are [...]
