Cleveland Port Authority: Early results show levy failing
Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 20:47.
Issue 108:
With 1,072 of 1,077 precincts counted
| For |
214,522 |
| Against |
281,190 |
Realneo was involved in the failure of ISSUE 108, and that's good.
Stay tuned for the final tally.
Dissolve the Port Authority!
Jeff
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Failure of 108 -Passage of 107
Thank you Jeff for posting here and I am glad to see that taxpayers in Cuyahoga County did not fall for the Port Levy. Unfortunately, however, the school levy did pass, which gives a green light to the folks at CMSD who follow orders from the Greater Cleveland Partnership.
One of the top administrators at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District is Mayor Jackson's brother, Nick Jackson. Nick Jackson has a checkered past and has not distinguished himself any where the powers that be happen to place him. He worked under Mike White at the Water Department.
Here's an article from SCENE magazine that profiles the Mayor's brother:
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-face-of-incompetence/Content?oid...
While Jackson was assistant water commissioner, he was supposed to oversee the department's off-site warehouse, known as Harvard Yard. But under his watch, employees were running their own Turkish bazaar. They raked in cars, World Series tickets, and other kickbacks while allowing vendors to jack up prices. The department ended up spending more than $1.1 million on overpriced materials and supplies.
Two Harvard Yard employees went to prison for the scheme, and a third is still on probation. One of the imprisoned claims in court documents that his superiors were aware of the corruption and created a work environment that encouraged it. The FBI investigation is still open. But so far, Jackson and his downtown superiors have escaped untarnished.
Penned by Lisa Rab, this was when the SCENE actually tried to reveal the truth, instead of running sleazy ads to promote the sex trade here in NEO....Here's a snapshot of the CMSD "leadership" today:
CMSD Leadership Team
Chief Executive Officer, Eric Gordon
CMSD Chiefs
Chief Academic Officer - Michelle N. Pierre-Farid
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer - John Scanlan
Chief of New & Innovative Schools and Programs - Christine Fowler-Mack
Chief Operating Officer - Patrick Zohn
CMSD Deputy Chiefs
Deputy Chief, Academic Resources - Diana Ehlert
Deputy Chief, Business Operations - Nicholas Jackson
Deputy Chief, Capital Programs - Gary Sautter
Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction - Karen Thompson
Deputy Chief, Financial Officer/Controller - Dennis Kubick
Deputy Chief, Human Resources (Interim) - Serena Houston-Edwards
Deputy Chief, Leadership and Growth - TBD
Deputy Chief, Legal Counsel - Wayne Belock
Deputy Chief, IT/Procurement - Joseph Podach
Deputy Chief, Organizational Accountability - Dr. Russell Brown
Deputy Chief, Safety and Security - Lester Fultz
District Communications Officer - Dr. Roseann Canfora
Academic Superintendents
Academic Superintendent, Growth Schools - Rojeana Curtis
Academic Superintendent, Refocus Schools (Interim) - Luther Johnson
Academic Superintendent, Repurpose Schools (Interim) - Donald Jolly
Academic Superintendent, School Improvement Grant (S.I.G.) Schools - Valentina Moxon
Director, Innovative Portfolio Schools - Lisa Farmer Cole
Executive Directors
Executive Director, Budgets - George Anagnostou
Executive Director, Controller - TBD
Executive Director, Family & Community Engagement - Tracy Hill
Executive Director, Food & Nutritional Services - Regis Balaban
Executive Director, Internal Audit - Larry Johnston
Executive Director, Intervention Services (Interim) - Donna Bowen
Executive Director, Student Services - Blessing Nwaozuzu
Realneo is institutional memory of Port Authority Issue 108
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has immediately pulled the plug on the loser Levy Issue 108. Now, all the links from web sites which supported the levy or opposed the levy are dead.
This is how the Port operates - they want us to have no institutional memory - and they erase history as fast as they can.
They don't even have the decency or gumption to leave up their nonesense about "18,000 jobs" supported by importing cheap steel coil from eastern Europe? Show me the list of jobs.....
List of supporters of Issue 108 - Citizens: vote them all out
List from http://www.keepourportstrong.com/issue-108-endorsements which web site, I predict, will go down soon.