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ControlledHyperness 
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Posted on: Jan. 11 2011,3:36 pm |
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(grassman @ Jan. 10 2011,7:05 am)
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(ControlledHyperness @ Jan. 07 2011,6:45 pm)
QUOTE I still think there is a bit of grandstanding going on. It seems as if she is trying to prove some kind of point...most likely that they actually follow thru with charging people. I mean, she acknowledges that she recieved the letter, and is not only going thru with it still, she is adding charges. Makes NO sense to me at all! Kind of like that Good Sams thingy.
Similar, but keep in mind, Nelson is friends with defendants...possibly some relation to the judge as well?? That could have affected some of the outcome. Same with Paul Feilds...and what has (and likely TO) happened with Reid Nelson...who is the brother of the Atty. All of those things in and of themselves should have triggered a move to a different venue at LEAST. However, when the local Sherrif wants to contest his pay, both judges back out of it. Something reeks...but not sure what it is at the moment...
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ControlledHyperness
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Posted on: Jan. 11 2011,3:38 pm |
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(hymiebravo @ Jan. 08 2011,3:39 pm)
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(ControlledHyperness @ Jan. 07 2011,6:45 pm)
QUOTE I still think there is a bit of grandstanding going on. It seems as if she is trying to prove some kind of point...most likely that they actually follow thru with charging people. I mean, she acknowledges that she recieved the letter, and is not only going thru with it still, she is adding charges. Makes NO sense to me at all! Are you talking about the letter to the editor that was published at the paper website?
Nope...this was posted with having read JUST the article. I was unaware there was a letter to the editor with disgust involved.
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Jan. 12 2011,10:57 am |
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QUOTE How could city use Brimeyer? I cannot believe the City of Albert Lea is risking using the search outfit “Brimeyer-Fursman LLC” in the second go-round of finding a new city manager. At best, the city was misled or not provided full information on the candidates considered in 2010. I’ll stay away from using actual legal terms. Perhaps under the direction of James Brimeyer, this firm provided competent service to the city, Freeborn County and other local government entities, but that is no longer the case. When it became evident the candidates had not been fully vetted and/or adequate information given to the council, I asked the city attorney if we had any recourse against Brimeyer-Fursman. However, I concluded that the cost of any action was not worth recovering the approximate $20,000 fees and expenses we were charged. Even the promise to redo the search at no charge was not enticing to me. I would have preferrred walking away and either doing the search using city staff or perhaps an alternate firm such as Springsted Inc., the firm from which we also had a search proposal. By the timeline proposed in the Jan. 10, 2011, article “Council ups the pay range for city manager,” it looks like little is changing from the 2010 schedule, and that the council will once again be rushed into making a choice. The council should be asking why Brimeyer-Fursman was in such a rush to make a decision. In a column I wrote for the Tribune on March 18, 2010, I stated my hope was that the council would wait to make a choice, and I repeated that as we reviewed the five interviewed candidates on March 20, 2010. When it was clear that there was no desire to wait, I did vote along with the rest of the council to extend an offer, for the sake of unity. This is one of the decisions I regretted, but I try not to make the same mistake twice. Mike Murtaugh former mayor Albert Lea how-could-city-use-brimeyer
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Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
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