It's so much fun watching a Villa Hills council meeting. Mayor (or is it CEO?) Mike Martin is one of the most unintentionally entertaining people The Martin Chronicles has ever observed.
One council member asked Martin if his two new clerks are bonded. That seems like a serious enough question. One is the $47.50 per hour clerk/bookkeeper and the other is the $15 per hour "temporary" clerk who has supposedly been hired to help during the rush time when residents come to the city building to pay their property taxes.
Martin responded in typical fashion, "I've talked to people-we guess another billable hour for the city attorney- I was told they don't have to be bonded because they don't handle money". Is that a fact?
So Martin's $47.50 per hour clerk/bookkeeper never handles money? And the $15 per hour "temporary" clerk helping out with tax payments never handles money? If Martin says so, then it must be true.
So isn't the person hired to help out with the tax payments really helping out with tax payments? We guess not since Martin said so. And when those tax payments that are being handled by someone other than the person hired to handle the tax payments are received, doesn't the bookkeeper do anything with them? Again, we guess not. Why? Because Martin says so. So it must be true.
But that does beg another question. If the person Martin hired to take tax payments isn't taking tax payments and the clerk/bookkeeper isn't doing anything with those tax payments, well, uh why in the wide, wide world of sports are the taxpayers paying these two Martin-hires a combined $62.50 per hour?
The Martin Chronicles is sure that Martin will talk to people to get an answer to that question too. We are equally sure that his answer will be as true as his other answers.
Isn't this fun?
