Sources from that clogged commode known as the Villa Hills Civic Club tell The Martin Chronicles that Mayor Mike Martin has been there expressing great concern to anyone who will listen several nights each week. Martin worries that “his wife’s house (?)” and “his future (?)” are in serious jeopardy resulting from his incredible mismanagement of the City’s exploding budget.
For some inexplicable reason Martin believes that he will be financially liable for the hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars he has squandered over the past fourteen-plus months. What an odd idea. Everyone with functioning frontal lobes realizes that it is the poor taxpayers who are financially liable. Martin is simply personally responsible. Who planted this off-beat notion in Martin’s head? And how is it possible that it managed to take root?
Not surprisingly, Martin plans to over-react to the crisis he alone created in his typical “Mighty Mouse-melodramatic” way. It appears the “day he saves” will not belong to the taxpayers. The Martin Chronicles has also learned that the mayor is calling for an emergency summit meeting with Mike Pope’s funky finance committee to discuss deep, drastic budget cuts.
Other sources have confirmed that Martin has told department heads that no money will be spent on street repair. Is that right? Say it ain’t so. It was August, 2010 when then-candidate Martin assured The Community Recorder that, if elected mayor, he could find all the extra necessary money for street repair in the current budget. Now, because of his abject mishandling of the City’s budget, he wants to eliminate the street repair program entirely. Here are two questions to ponder. If there will be no street repair for the rest of the fiscal year, why is Martin continuing the KILBURN UNFAIR $40 PER CAR STICKER TAX? And, why are Martin and Kilburn planning to file suit against any poor resident who doesn’t pay the UNFAIR STICKER TAX?
We have also been told that Martin issued the same order to stop spending on ball field maintenance. Don’t worry. The generous Sisters of St. Walburg and the varmints at the Civic Club won’t care at all if Martin unilaterally walks away from the long-standing contracts the City has with these two organizations. No-o-o-o-o. Uh-uh. So what? Who cares? What’s the big deal? Isn’t this his decision? No problem. Or perhaps not.
So what else is left to cut? Maybe the mayor will “ground” the police cruisers and public works vehicles by forbidding employees to purchase any more fuel to operate them. Hey, crime can’t get much worse anyway. And, the City has now cancelled its street repair program. So why bother?
Perhaps the mayor can cancel the City’s phone service. When he was the chairman of the Administration Committee a few years ago, he gave that a try. What else is left to cut? How did things get this bad?
The funny thing is, the one thing sources tell us Martin wants to continue wasting taxpayer money on is his expensive, new concrete parking lot at 720 Rogers. His “logic”? The money has already been budgeted. So, uh, no money has been budgeted for street repair and ball field maintenance? But he budgeted money for his own personal parking lot at the City building? Wow! Talk about FUBAR! It is amazing how much damage Martin has done. And it looks like he is just getting warmed up!
Here is the reality. Despite the behind-the-scenes chicanery of the mayor, the funky finance committee, insurance companies and attorneys, Martin’s “wife’s house (?)” and probably many other assets are as good as gone already as a result of lawsuits and pending lawsuits. And the taxpayers? Well, they will be on the hook for the bill for the rest of Martin’s mayhem.
