Gloucester, VA Judges Requests Private Chambers For Personal Vehicles At Taxpayer Expense of Course

Gloucester, Virginia:  Judge Long is going to the Board of Supervisors requesting private chambers for his personal vehicle.  It seems according the the county's own documentation, all the judges want these private chambers for their vehicles not feeling very secure about the decisions they hand down on the people everyday.

  We think it's a good idea even though it's further expenses to the taxpayers and does nothing to benefit the taxpayers other than lock these judges in a small space that they will then not be able to get out of should someone really want to get to them for their decisions.  If the judges want to pin themselves into a corner with a security wall and become trapped rats, we think they should have that right.  Let them pay for it however.  It does nothing to protect the taxpayers.  This is the type of garbage they do in banana republics because of all the criminals who run the systems there.  If we are to follow the examples of the banana republics, then it is telling us that maybe there is a reason for such?  Are our judges corrupt?  Are they handing down decisions that have nothing to do with law but instead are political or for financial gain or for favors to the few?

  It's a fair question.  Below is the documentation of the request for the private vehicle chambers spun to sound all nice.  Next they will all want their own private police body guards to meet them outside and hold their hands as they walk into the courts.  They already have the private police in the courts, just not outside.  Welcome to the banana republic of Gloucester.  You have to pay to get in, you have to pay to stay, but when it's time to go, it's free to leave.

Gloucester, VA Judges Peronal Vehicle Chambers from Chuck Thompson

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Buying It Used, Criminal Sales Activity? Gloucester, VA

Section 13-28: Bidding to Purchase County Property No County employee or member of his/her immediate family shall be eligible to bid to purchase any County property at County sponsored auctions. For the purpose of this policy, a member of the immediate family shall be defined as any person who is a natural or legally defined offspring, spouse, or parent of the employee.

  One of the owners of the store, Buy It Used, is also a part time employee of Gloucester County in the Animal Control unit of Gloucester County, Virginia.  That is not at all criminal.  

If you look very close at this picture to the left, you will note that it was once the property of Gloucester County public schools, particularly, Petsworth Elementary school.  It's written right there on the side.  The projector is for sale at Buy It Used for a mere $30.00.  Their signature sales tage is seen to the left of the power cord.

We did some enhancements to this picture to show the Petsworth name a little clearer than the last picture.  We have reported on this store in the past because so much of their merchandise looks like it came out of the county and the store often looks like a county surplus store selling merchandise that looks like it came out of Gloucester government offices or schools.

Usually the way you obtain that stuff is through county auctions.  Those auctions are on the Internet and we have shown how to get to those pages to see what the county is selling.  

  Now if they are not getting county goods at auction, is the county using this store as a front to sell merchandise and not reporting the sales?  If that is the case, who is pocketing the money?  Is someone in the county giving them this merchandise for free which would fall under unreported income?  Both a State as well as IRS tax violations?

  We are going to be fair here, it could be that they bought this piece at a local yard sale, (not likely), or they could have bought it at a non government auction, however, with the county employment code the way it is, why would any employee who owns a business take the chance of having something like this in their store knowing what the potential appearance looks like?  What does that appearance look like?  Well that is what we started out with.  Illegal activity.  A front for unscrupulous employees working together to fatten their own pockets at tax payer expenses.  Is this store moving stolen county goods?  We don't know.  We only know what we saw and took pictures of.  Is this the only piece?  Well this is the only one that still had an ID on it.  Plenty of other stuff looks like it came out of the local schools but there are no identifiers.

  This looks like more of the typical Animal Control employee criminal activity that the entire department seems to keep finding itself wrapped up in.  Criminals with no regard for the law.  

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Gloucester, VA Blank Check Tax Election Candidates, The Blakes

Are Gloucester County residents being asked to sign a blank check on the upcoming elections for the school board as well as the board of supervisors positions?  One has to ask that question based on how the deck has been stacked and the fact no one has told you that this may be the case.

  We just learned that running for the school board is Ms Hook, a local attorney here in Gloucester.  One of the members running for the Board of Supervisors is Graham Blake.  Ms Hook's maiden name?  Blake.  Relationship?  Father daughter.  Now even though they are seeking positions on different boards, you can rest assured they both will be serving the same interests which could very well mean they could end up costing the county by far more money than anyone ever expected.  Almost akin to signing a blank check for the raising of future taxes as the school board seeks ever increasing money to fund very poor programs and a failing system.

  This is exactly what everyone in the county is presently complaining about.  Neither one of the candidates have mentioned this to the public.  Are they assuming that we are all supposed to know this?  Though there is no appearance of anything illegal about this in any way, the potential for future conflicts of interests are very real concerns for all the citizens of Gloucester.

  A fact of life, a father is going to make sure he takes care of his daughter.  Are we to believe that this will not follow through in government as well?  Whatever daddies little girl asks for, daddy is going to make sure she gets it?  This just does not sit well with us by any means.  As others learn about this, we hear the same remarks.  Why the papers in the area missed this is also a matter of question.

 
Ms Hook, second from left.

Graham Blake, second from left.  Like father, like daughter.

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Signing a Contract to sign a Contract? Gloucester Officials Need To Understand The Laws

Open Letter to the Citizens of Gloucester County Virginia

“For the Common Good. “

Since County officials are incapable of following the law as shown repeatedly on this blog site; do they think that signing a letter of intent to sign the Contract for the Swamp School is legal before the funding is available?

The Virginia Constitution was written for us to limit the government intrusion into our lives.  Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States?  How about the Constitution of Virginia?

Code of Virginia

Ҥ 15.2-1238. Certification of sufficient funds.

Except in emergency, no order for delivery on a contract or open market order for supplies or contractual services for any county department or agency shall be awarded until the chief financial officer has certified that the unencumbered balance in the appropriation concerned, in excess of all unpaid obligations, is sufficient to defray the cost of such order.

15.2-1239. Orders and contracts in violation of article.

If any department or agency of the county government purchases or contracts for any supplies or contractual services contrary to the provisions of this article or the rules and regulations made there under  such order or contract shall be void and the head of such department or agency shall be personally liable for the costs of such order or contract.

§ 22.1-175.5. Capital School Projects Fund.

A. The governing body of any locality which is awarded a grant pursuant to this chapter may authorize the local treasurer or fiscal officer, by ordinance or resolution, to create a separate escrow account upon the books of the locality, as described in this section. Upon the adoption of such ordinance or resolution, the treasurer of the locality shall place such grant awards into this account.

B. The escrow account shall be known as the "County/City/Town of ____________ Capital School Projects Fund." All principal deposited to such fund, together with all income from or attributable to the fund, shall be used solely for (i) construction, additions, renovations, including retrofitting and enlarging public school buildings, infrastructure, including technology infrastructure, and site acquisition for public school buildings and facilities or (ii) debt service payments, or a portion thereof, for any such projects completed in the previous ten years if so designated. No disbursement from the fund may be made except upon specific appropriation by the governing body in accordance with applicable law. If a locality establishes such a fund and designates any portion of the funds deposited therein to pay debt service for (i) any general obligation of the locality held by the Virginia Public School Authority or (ii) any Literary Fund loan, the locality shall obtain an opinion of bond counsel that designation of funds to pay debt service on obligations described in clauses (i) and (ii) hereof does not adversely impact the tax-exempt status of such obligations.

C. All grant awards deposited in the fund, including all income from or attributable to such fund, shall be deemed public funds of the locality and shall be subject to all limitations upon deposit and investment provided by general law, including, but not limited to, the Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act (§2.2-4400 et seq.). Income, dividends, distributions, and grants accruing to the fund shall be retained in such fund and shall be expended only in accordance with the terms of this section.

D. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to authorize a school board or school division to receive, hold or invest funds in its own name, nor to expend funds in the absence of a specific appropriation by the governing body of the locality in accordance with applicable law. “

The county intends to sign a letter of intent to sign the contract to build the Swamp School?  Again they violate their oath of office.  Is our county attorney trying to prove to us he is a full time County Jester and not a lawyer?  Or do they all have a total disregard for the laws of Virginia? Maybe we should let them sign the letter of intent violating the law and then let them pay for the building out of their personal funds?

I am not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice.  Our founding fathers used common sense and Christian scripture when establishing our founding documents. 

“For the Common Good. “

Sincerely,

Alexander James Jay

P.S.  "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."  --Thomas Jefferson,letter to John Taylor, 1816

Our Notes:  During the 17th and 18th century, the colonies, the world, dealt with pirates who swindled anything they could get their hands on.  Today, the pirates wear ties and suits and try to convince us that what they are doing is in the best interest of the children, the community, the state or the entire country.  

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Gloucester, VA Public Schools Trending Downwards Fast

Now here is information you are not likely to find in any of the other news sources in Gloucester.  Recent trends show that Gloucester Public Schools are on a downward spiral in many areas and our children are not getting the education they deserve yet our costs are going up, up, up.

  The following information has just been shared with us and we want to share it with all of you.

"If you visit https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/

and fill in the form for “School Division Report Card” you will find the Gloucester County Public School System did not meet all Federal Annual Measurable Objectives for the 2012-2013 school year.  While you are there be sure to look near the bottom of the page where you will find the School Safety statistics.  You will quickly see the bad trend.

 

If you visit the same web address and fill in the form forGloucester High School you will find that GHS was “Accredited with Warning”.

 

The Gloucester County Public School System is once again demonstrating its need for more effective administration and management.  During the October 8, 2013 School Board Meeting the board was given a presentation of the federal and state yearly public school system assessment results.  School system administrators focused more on rendering their negative opinions about the assessment criteria and providing excuses for the deficient areas than they spent on discussing a plan of action and ways to meet and exceed the standards.  Most board members demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the evaluation systems that monitor the quality of education being provided to Gloucester County students. The presentation did not provide the Safety portion of the assessment results which reflects a substantial increase in disciplinary infractions during the 2012-2013 school year."

An increase in disciplinary infractions?  Yet The Kiser has recently stated that these kinds of issues just do not happen at our local schools where a student recently committed suicide due to being excessively bullied?  Take the time to look at those reports.  They are very revealing.  

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Gloucester, VA Candidates For Board of Supervisor's Positions, 2013/14

Come and meet the candidates for the upcoming seats on the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors positions.  3 seats are open this season for 2014.  Those seats are York District, Petsworth District and At Large position.  The At Large supervisor's position is one where that particular supervisor represents all residents of the county and not just one specific district within the county.

  We are going to introduce each candidate from left to right.

1. Phil Bazzani, York District candidate
2. Graham Blake, York District
3. Mike Jenkins, Petsworth District
4. Grant Keller, At Large Position, Covers Entire County
5. John Meyer, At Large Position, Covers Entire County
6. Marsha Mickle, York District
7. Mr Winebarger, Petsworth District

As soon as we get a chance, we will be putting up audio from the forum so that everyone can hear the candidates positions.  We will try and get that up before the end of the week.  The central themes of the forum were very clear, taxes are going up and are out of control, a lack of new business into the area to help grow the tax base and take some of the burden off the residents, a present Board of Supervisors who are out of control and do not listen to the people they are supposed to serve.

Now it is up to you, the voter, to decide whom you think are the best candidates to represent you in both the county as well as your district.  To help that process, we have made our selection based on sound ideas, passion for wanting to do the best job they can, the right ideas and ideals and the best answers.  What we can tell you is that the decisions were very tough on building our A list and we debated our decisions for several hours based on the facts before us.

Our A list selection is as follows;

For Petsworth:  Mr Winebarger had the most passion for the position with very sound answers to tough questions.

For York District;  Marsha Mickle.  Our toughest decision.  Phil Bazzani was an extremely tough person to beat, but we felt Marsha Mickle had a little more personal passion for the position and the time to do an incredible job for her constituents.

For At Large;  Grant Keller.  Again this was an extremely tough call to make.  John Meyer was at the top of our list even coming out of the forum.  We spent over 4 hours with Grant Keller after the forum and he convinced us that he is in fact the right person for the job.  He presented us with his ideas and concerns and we felt we had to throw our support to him after an incredible job and well thought out objectives and visions that he clearly conveyed.

Now that makes our B list rather clear with one exception.  The York district has 3 people seeking to represent the constituents.  So our B choice has to go to Phil Bazzani.  Graham Blake moves to the C list.  What was sad are the jokes overheard about Mr Blake based on his age that he might not live through the 4 year term and there was speculation that he may even need naps during the 3 hour meetings.  Though he is up there in age, we thought the jokes were reckless.  He does have considerable experience he brings to the table that still needs to be taken into consideration.

On a final note for this post, we would like to thank Katie Thompson and her staff for producing this forum and a job very well done.

 

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