How CDCs work (or don't work) for your Neighborhood

From Henry Senyak:

 Dear Neighbors and Friends in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, please be good toadies and go tonight to stuff your face at the DSCDO Annual Meeting. Be good lemmings and vote to change the DSCDO Articles of Incorporation. This will then clarify and legalize the plundering and pillage of CDBG Tax Dollars from other City of Cleveland Neighborhoods. During the last year Jeff Ramsey had recently stated at a public meeting that DSCDO takes $92,000.00 off the top of separate budget allocated to SCFBC. Citizen volunteers state that SCFBC has a budget of $800,000.00, but yet have been given any audited documents. This removes services and program dollars out of the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods. They are also being asked to potentially sack parts of Old Brooklyn and Tremont to funnel more money to parent primary service area to benefit the Gordon-Detroit Community and Councilman Matt Zone. These changes will allow DSCDO to pillage funding all over Cuyahoga County and its bordering Counties 

DSCDO will continue to call these other neighborhoods their expanded service areas but will not allow residents and stakeholders any voice regarding the spending of critical tax dollars. These residents in the above listed neighborhoods are second class citizens that cannot participate democratically as members or board members of DSCDO. 

Public Documents show bloated top exec .salaries at DSCDO that also includes excellent fringe benefits and retirement accounts. 

Jeff Ramsey $90,000.00 base salary 

Matt Lasko $80,000.00 base salary

CFO $66,000.00 base salary

Acct. $39,000.00 base salary

ED Director $50,000.00 base salary 

Housing Dir . $45,000,00 base salary

Project Mgr. $40,000.00 base salary

Involvement Dir. $40,000.00 base salary

Marketing Spec. $42,000.00 base salary