The Martin Chronicles observed last night's Villa Hills City Council meeting with great interest. Only four elected officials were in attendance. We already knew malfeasant Mayor Martin was "unavailable". Council members Balson and Wischer were also evidently "unavailable".
Council member Holly Menninger-Isenhour continued her incessant assault on Police Chief Dan Goodenough and Assistant Chief Joe Schutzman in particular and the local police department in general. How? She questioned Chief Goodenough about some allegedly missing building inspection records that she claims the Chief should have known about. Why? Because Menninger-Isenhour suggested that the Chief was responsible for supervising building inspection activities. Confusing, huh?
First of all, we were very surprised that Martin's personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry didn't immediately shut down Menninger-Isenhour's questions. Why? Because the City is currently embroiled in-yet another-lawsuit over those allegedly missing records. If we didn't know better, we might conclude that there was some orchestrated effort to unfairly raise doubts about Chief Goodenough. Well, at least we think we know better.
Furthermore, wasn't it the mismanaging Martin's responsibility to supervise building inspection services? The tiny tyrant is the self-proclaimed "CEO" of the City, after all. Martin is the one who signed Schutzman Inspection Services to a contract, not Chief Goodenough. Martin is the one who breached the City's contract with Schutzman Inspection Services in May without the required thirty day notice, not Chief Goodenough.
Martin has been mayor of Villa Hills now for nearly three years. If there continues to be some angst over extra money people were being paid to perform additional services, Martin has certainly had more than ample time to address that issue. The diminutive dictator has evidently failed to do so. How is that Chief Goodenough's issue?
Sources tell us that Martin claims he couldn't address the "extra pay" issue because it might have damaged his $1.505 million lawsuit against Goodenough, Schutzman and the taxpayers over his 2007 FORGERY ARREST. That lawsuit was dismissed more than two years ago. So, as the old saying goes, "That dog don't hunt".
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to elect someone to the mayor's office who was suing City employees and the taxpayers after all.
