Dear 2UrbanGirls,
City employee here! THANK YOU SO MUCH for exposing Yvonne Horton and Aisha Thompson for using their positions to deceive Inglewood voters. Your articles were a hot topic of discussion around city hall today and Wanda’s report shows how slimy Mayor Butts is to try and get a raise out of residents.
If he wants to be paid more he should be in the private sector. With all his “accomplishments” wouldn’t someone be happy to take him? Oops, he likes sleeping with the staff. He would cost them too much in sexual harassment lawsuits. You see what happened to Tavis Smiley. He owes his former employer almost $3 million.
Anyhow. Check out this email we just got from City Manager Artie Fields. Wanda Brown said the city paid nearly $270,000 for COVID-19-related activities. We looked at the warrant register and some of the money is coming out of Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) funds.
They are making us wear masks, with the city seal, and now they want US to pay for extras? We were issued two but why should we have to pay for more, when the city is being reimbursed under the CARES Act funding they received, for anything COVID-19 related? Wanda pointed out they aren’t FDA-approved so why can’t we buy our OWN masks to wear to work? It’s the SAME product just without the city seal.
By the way, Butts was at a food giveaway today at the stadium that no one knew about. It was an event by Mari Morales who Wanda mentioned in her report as one of the people who would support giving him a raise.
Inglewood Insider
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Thank you insider for letting residents know we (residents) are not the only ones that James Butts is taking advantage of !
Thank you for showing us where the dollars for his projects are coming from.
Capitol Improvements is the name of the account ( or in a household -the designated envelope) where taxpayer dollars are set aside or budgeted for improving, maintaining, or upgrading our buildings and facilities!
With misuse like this ….Is it any wonder the city facilities aka the main library -once among the finest in the south bay -is such an embarrassment …..and that long ago promised new Police Station has not yet became a reality!
Mayor Butts when will you put the residents and the community above your greed and stop punishing people for speaking out against your wrong doing.
You do not have the Right to continue to disrespect and mistake treat people.
You need to Repent!!!