An Editorial...Oh Zena, Where Art Thou?
If anyone thought they were moving from places like California and Nevada to Grove in order to escape controversies, they should think again.
Zena is beginning to look better every day.
On Wednesday Grove Resident Earl D. Barnes filed a petition in District Court to impanel a grand jury. The Court had four days to rule on the petition and guess what…Judge Haney signed the order stating the petition was sufficient, THE SAME DAY! Circulators of the petition now have 45 days to obtain sufficient signatures to warrant impaneling a grand jury. We have a feeling those signatures are already put on paper.
Note: Judge Haney is the same judge that will hear the bid splitting case filed against City Manager Bill Galletly on March 13. Do we get a discount?
The call for a grand jury has one purpose…to rid the city of its manager, and maybe take out two city councilors with him.
But much of the material in the petition for a grand jury is dirt which has been plowed before and rejected by the District Attorney as insufficient to warrant filing charges. And just to make sure the D.A. noticed, the petition whacked him upside the head with a 2x4 by seeking disqualification of the entire D.A.'s office from acting as legal advisor to the grand jury.
Several of the charges contained in the petition we find supercilious. To ask for the removal of two councilors just because they didn't vote the way you wanted them to, for example, or "failure to supervise."
The thing about Grand Juries is that they can look at "other stuff" in addition to what is in the petition. Maybe they will go back 18 years into Grove's good old boy past as well.
It has been a busy week at City Hall. Our city manager has been giving depositions in the lawsuit against the city by former EMS director Gary Metcalf; the airport board has been told its' airport lease has been terminated and no more funds will be given by the city to the authority, something that is sure to bring out another lawsuit; and the city manager has been preparing for his bid-splitting trial March 13 and another one of Earl Shero's lawsuits possibly in April.
Makes one wonder why we didn't go to law school after all.
There is a solution to all of this mess…it is called The Ballot Box. New residents of Grove would do well to see that they understand what is going on here and prepare for the next election.
Zena is beginning to look better every day.
On Wednesday Grove Resident Earl D. Barnes filed a petition in District Court to impanel a grand jury. The Court had four days to rule on the petition and guess what…Judge Haney signed the order stating the petition was sufficient, THE SAME DAY! Circulators of the petition now have 45 days to obtain sufficient signatures to warrant impaneling a grand jury. We have a feeling those signatures are already put on paper.
Note: Judge Haney is the same judge that will hear the bid splitting case filed against City Manager Bill Galletly on March 13. Do we get a discount?
The call for a grand jury has one purpose…to rid the city of its manager, and maybe take out two city councilors with him.
But much of the material in the petition for a grand jury is dirt which has been plowed before and rejected by the District Attorney as insufficient to warrant filing charges. And just to make sure the D.A. noticed, the petition whacked him upside the head with a 2x4 by seeking disqualification of the entire D.A.'s office from acting as legal advisor to the grand jury.
Several of the charges contained in the petition we find supercilious. To ask for the removal of two councilors just because they didn't vote the way you wanted them to, for example, or "failure to supervise."
The thing about Grand Juries is that they can look at "other stuff" in addition to what is in the petition. Maybe they will go back 18 years into Grove's good old boy past as well.
It has been a busy week at City Hall. Our city manager has been giving depositions in the lawsuit against the city by former EMS director Gary Metcalf; the airport board has been told its' airport lease has been terminated and no more funds will be given by the city to the authority, something that is sure to bring out another lawsuit; and the city manager has been preparing for his bid-splitting trial March 13 and another one of Earl Shero's lawsuits possibly in April.
Makes one wonder why we didn't go to law school after all.
There is a solution to all of this mess…it is called The Ballot Box. New residents of Grove would do well to see that they understand what is going on here and prepare for the next election.
posted by Editor | 2:30 AM
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