Inglewood Treasurer Wanda Brown has began to publicly peel back the layers of the internal turmoil inside City Hall. She has spoken out at several city council meetings only to have her microphone cut off by Mayor James Butts. At the most recent council meeting on Tuesday, May 19th, she asked that a document be entered into the city record.
Brown outlines the mayor’s attempt to usurp control over the city’s investments and a newly hired “friend” of his who earns $68,000 a year of taxpayers money.
Brown also details the absolute control Butts exerts over City Manager Artie Fields which corroborated claims that Fields allows his signature to be forged regularly on staff reports and official responses to outside auditing agencies, which should lead to his immediate termination by the council majority.
Related: Inglewood City Council should fire City Manager Artie Fields
2UrbanGirls requested a copy of the document that you can read here.
Investment Oversight Committee 3-10-20 Agenda Item
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she needs to go lay down and rest. she did a piss poor job investing. sorry to say.
Operating fund dollars are separate from investment dollars.
It is David Esparza, who as the Chief Financial Officer, should be caring for how taxpayer dollars are SPENT. But let us be real, he was hired by the Butts administration after becoming unemployed when his role in mismanagement was discovered while he was part of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles . (See KCET expose where’s the money – government gone wild.) Perhaps Bagga Man does not understand that “city investing” by elected treasurers is restricted since the Orange County 1994 financial drama, Meanwhile, the frivolous spending on pay-to-play-contracts and family/friend employment/and bonuses is under the responsibility of City Manager Fields, CFO Esparza, and the elected Council members …Aka James Butts and “his loyal aye men.”
Our gratitude and compassion (rather than insults) should be surrounding Dr Brown as she faces the medical challenges before her.
Let’s hope she can get some rest, dealing with the the ignorant(s) around her can be so draining.
Inglewood has been cooking the books for years/all Bell crooks came to Inglewood even auditors /BUTTS knew/Fields is controlled/ Padilla/Dotson elections bought by BUTTS loans/3 votes control council/waste fraud thru redevelopment agency has been rampant/ RICO/FBI/STATE CONTROLLER WILL HAVE INVESTIGATION// POLITICS IN INGLEWOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN A B;;;; RESIDENTS LOVE SINGIN/DANCIN/BLOCK PARTIES/PARTA OVA HERE AND DERE/AND NOT LISTENING/ALL DIS HAPPENED/ NOW WAT U GONNA DO? PARTA WIT FOOTBALL/BASKETBALL OR WAKE UP AND DEMAND MUTUAL BENEFITS? GAME OVER?
kudos to Mrs.Brown.For speaking up and letting the tax payers know what the future looks like if we just let mayor butts have control. I believe that we need to support mrs .brown and have mayor butts investigated by a private agency and take it from there. TRANSPARENCY …..!
God bless you, Wanda! This is incredible.
Wow fam. We gotta find a way to support her position.
Agreed. This needs to be elevated