Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. has made good on threats to remove certain duties from the office of the city’s treasurer. Butts and Wanda Brown have engaged in a steady discourse where she has attempted to reveal alleged mismanagement of federal grants and bond proceeds.
The city’s finance director David Esparza is seeking to amend and repeal portions of the city’s municipal code to strip Brown of both additional duties and the additional pay they come with.
Actions the Finance Director is taking are as follows:
- Amend IMC 2-246 to assign the mayor authority to execute bank agreements;
- Repeal IMC 2-277.1- removing the treasurer as General Auditor and putting that duty back under the City Clerk, who is alleged to not even have a high school diploma;
- Amend IMC 8-27- removing the treasurer from the Permits & Licenses Committee
- Amend IMC 10-44- to have a cash or bond guarantee construction deposited with the Finance Department (cash) or City Clerk (bond) **this coincides with Brown’s claim of a $77,000+ issue with a deposit related to Pinner Construction
- Adopt a revised and updated Investment Policy and Procedures delegating the authority of the Finance Director to invest all city funds except for an amount no greater than $50,000 by the city treasurer
Wanda Brown currently earns a monthly salary of nearly $7900, and with the removal of the above mentioned duties her salary will ultimately reduced to the amount outlined in IMC Section 2-277 which is $404 per month.
Butts has a documented pattern of retaliating against women, in the Finance Department, who dispute his vivid imaginations about the city’s solvency.
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He can’t fire the treasurer, like he did the former accounting manager, so he’s going to reduce her pay as an act of vengeance, which is not the type of person you want leading a city.
For the first time, in nearly two years, it was decided that City Manager Artie Fields signature wouldn’t be forged on this staff report, with Public Works Director/Assistant City Manager Luis Atwell signing “FOR” Fields.
In fact EVERY staff report, on the September 15, 2020, regular city council agenda is signed by Atwell FOR Fields.
View the staff report here.
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To Who This May Concern(s),
It’s time to get rid of the Mayor of Inglewood (Butt’s). I’m so tired of our black leaders pretending to help the community.
We are having issue(s) with our schools. We have allowed stray people to come in and give false pretenses to our leaders. Planting ways to over run the city and community. This involves backroom law breaking and stealing money from the community. It’s time to VOTE! Review all person(s) running for office(s), even if it means seeing what they have done before seeking any kind of public office. How were they in their local schools, how did they make changes there, did they meet their goal(s). I’m so tired of LIARS! We have a LIAR, currently in the white house and our people continue to vote for him. I don’t care if your Black/Asian/ Hispanic/or White…do the right thing. We are all one people! There is only one GOD who created man from his image.
It’s time to remove Mayor Butt’s from office and all his minions, that he has placed in office. That would include anyone that goes along with his policies. Anytime a mayor that you don’t care about his community, the schools, the infrastructure, housing, taxes, jobs for everyone, high rent…this isn’t Las Vegas and city of crime. There’s to much crime within or local public office(s). It appears that our leadership has gotten greedy pockets. I’ll end with this…One day you will have to give an account of all our doings. It will be like a movie from birth until your trial and no attorney, no dollars, no drugs of any kind will prevent you for standing trial.
Did his ex girlfriend Melanie pass away???
No
How can you get rid of check and balance in the city’s budget. That’s corruption.
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Wait…he can do that?!?? How is that possible?
Bad precedent set when you have elected officials attempting to manipulate others and if he goes through with this he and this council should officially be recalled
Mayor Butts you must be related to Donald Trump….stop all this nonsense. You are a total jerk and a big joke.
May God have mercy on your evil soul????
Butts’ actions are out of control. I will not vote for Butts for re-election nor any of the current officers(except treasurer) or council members. Our Mayor, city manager etc and council members are corrupt and appears they are lining their pockets with our money (wages are way too much for what they do). Mayor Butts is not a dictator, it’s supposed to be a democracy and we citizens cannot stand for this behavior!
Just looking at how Mayor Garcetti has only tried to aid people during COVID-19 with food and Shelter and then seeming the butt Butts has only turned his back on Inglewood. Is truly sad He is the worse . His girlfriend with that scandal and now another