Well, ol Cliffy is mad as hell now.....seems he's off the Oil Workers Monument Committee bcause he never attended any meetings.....and talk about being petty...Cliff, got so mad when he found out he was off the committee, that he wants back his oilworker brick display box that the he built and donated to the committee 2 years ago and gave to the all volunteer group to display and sell commemorative bricks.
Cliff donated the display box which was used as a model to have TCI prisioners build several others like it. So there are a few more out there and Cliff wants three back...so hide the other ones guys.
When he heard the bad news, Cliff reportedly said, "How can you kick me off the committee after all I have done for the monument?" Right! He was suppose to sell and market bricks as a committee member.....but nothing ever happened and Cliff just stopped going to the meetings....and there's the issue about where the committeee wanted to put the mounment and where Cliffy wanted it.
Oh well....maybe he was busy at the city council working on the "Save the Midway Sunset Trading Post" building committee trying to figure out how Councilman Craig Noble can keep the building (and his council seat) he bought several years ago and then sold for $1 in December 2008 to a local realtor who wanted to see a restautrant there - so he could keep his city council seat (he could not own the building on city owned land and have a lease with the city at the same time that he was sitting on the council) - but then Craig had to take the building back from the realtor after the realtor stopped making payments on the lease in May 09 (and this was never disclosed to anyone, not even the WSW - surprising since it was such a big deal last year when - you guessed it - Councilman Cliff Thompson worked REALLY worked hard to get Councilman Noble kicked off the Council - ((Cliffy was mad at Craig then - but they are best friends now)) - for Craig's conflict of interest).
Seems that the realtor got disgusted with Craig and the city council and quit making payments to Noble - and also the lease payments (and not to mention thousands in insurance money) to the city - not payments on the price of $1 that is the only record of the sale on paper according to the realtor - but on the undisclosed agreement between Craig and the buyer for $160,000 - can you say IRS?
The realtor tells the WSW that she bought the building to save Craig from being removed from the council.
But now, you see, because the realtor could not get the city to sell her the land (the city owns the land that the building sits on - what use is an old building that does not own the land it sits on - especially if your trying to get a bank to give you a loan to fix it up and the bank says "YOU DON'T OWN THE LAND? NO WAY!
The realtor says that Councilman Noble assured her that since the rail rail (who once owned the land but since sold it to the city) once offered to sell him the land, that the city council would surely sell her the land to her....NOT!
Well, seems like a conflict of interest is out there somewhere..
But since the city ain't talking and Craig won't call back the Taft Indy to tell us what is happening with the building, and the city won't discuss it - since it is a closed session item - what's a body to do?
You will never find this item on the city council agenda, well not the public agenda that we can all see, but the Closed City Council Agenda, which none of use ever get to see or hear about because what they talk about in closed session stays in closed session.
ONE WONDERS REALLY WHAT THE CITY ATTORNEY THINKS ABOUT ALL OF THIS STUFF, SINCE IT IS HER DUTY TO ADVISE THE CITY COUNCIL ON LEGAL ISSUES....does Craig own the building now, or does the city own the building, as one city official contended recently....did you hear about that Craig?
And when does the public get to know what's going on with city owned property - Is it city owned, and if not, and if Craig owns it, how does it qualify for closed session hearings - who is hiding what?