The incredible saga of the Aurora Housing Authority (AHA) Slumlords continues to plague the city, taxpayers, schools, the poor and needy.
On Wednesday, the AHA presented its latest version of its scheme to rebuild the Jericho Circle slum to Mayor Weisner's "Affordable Housing Task Force."
During previous meetings, discussions sparked into heated exchanges between Mayor Weisner and Slumlords Big Al Schuler (related to 1st Ward Alderman Abigail Schuler) and Bill Burns (husband of 7th Ward Alderman Scheketa Hart-Burns).
This time, as the task force questioned the scheme, things got heated again with AHA Slumlord Bill Burns lashing out at the mayor and the task force, alleging the task force members such as Theodia Gillespie were being paid to be critical of the AHA.
Patrice McGinn, the high-priced consultant girl from Virgina exploiting taxpayers on behalf of the AHA Slumlords, blamed the mayor for the hostility.
Stephanie Lulay reports:
"I try to silent, but when I have Ms. McGinn talking about hosility...the most hostile, thinly veiled comment (came) from Mr. Burns today," Weisner said.
He said that the task force members are not paid for their time considering housing issues. But, Weisner said the AHA Board members, who are appointed by him, are paid to attend meetings.
Weisner than asked Burns for an apology.
"I would hope that the AHA Board would have enough class to do that," he said.
Burns said he wasn't representing the board.
"I'm representing myself. I will make it public," Burns said.
Sources say Burns is upset because in recent communication by Weisner about the AHA, he flatly calls them liars.
We note that it's true the AHA has a pattern of deception and misleading statements, but it appears Burns and his fellow Slumlords are upset the mayor would say it.
Meanwhile, Lulay reports one of the task force members, Scott Voris, saying:
"the community, the police, the schools have universally reject it (AHA's scheme to rebuild Jericho Circle). It's because it's proven over the last 45 years to have failed, Voris said. "The AHA has not participated...it's mind boggling."
However, while we agree the most of the AHA board, staff, consultants, legal counsel probably deserve to be sent to a prison with living conditions like Jericho Circle, this continued saga could be stopped.
There's no need to have an "affordable housing task force" since the law requires cities to advance FAIR HOUSING policies, not AFFORDABLE.
Mayor Weisner should remove Burns and Schuler from the board.
Not only we must end the chronic crisis at the site of Jericho Circle, but we must put an end to AHA itself and demolish ALL public housing so the poor and needy can move into private housing with vouchers and we don't have to keep seeing this saga continue.
It's time to focus on those that are paying for all this mess...the taxpayers.
13 comments:
And these same assholes are the ones to be negotiating YOUR electricity rates? If the citizens approve of the scheme for city negotiating than you all deserve the shithole you live in period.
What, the AHA Board is negotiating the electricity rates ??
How long is the mayor going to let this fester ?
It is true the task force other than the schools are supported by the mayor. He supports his friend Gillespe at the Urban League and plays $200,000 a year to force the schools to send kids to her programs. Of course East & West being the money grubbers they are don't care about education and send the kids to Alternative School. Then there is the many other programs he supports over there
That said Burns will jam any welfare program he can at the taxpayers. He and his scam artist wife who sued the city are good for that.
All crooks that need to go
who sued the city are good for that.
Make that sued multiple times.
Nothing says I am a nigger like suing your employer when you fall going in and out of your place of employment.
Yep - Burns is a good Christian woman. So honest, so ethical...
10:17 Obviously you can't think past your nose.
Gillespe is paid in other ways. The Whiz appointed her to the Fox Valley Park Board. She receives funds through CIS Community in Schools from Shoemaker another friend of the Whiz. The Schools are strong armed to use her program at the Alternative School she runs. She received close to $90,000 to rehab a home that she rents. BTW her renter is Jerome Roberts Superintendent of East Schools. Roberts can not send money over to Quad County fast enough a true conflict but that is politics in Aurora.
BTW Roberts looked the other way last year when a kid who was enrolled her school was running the streets and got shot to death. She did not even know the boy was missing for a week.
Now lets talk about Burns. Until his falling out with the Whiz he received many appointments to the tune of over $35,000 in wages. His wife sued and won a 6 figure payment and she spends her ward funds like it is her personal money.
That is Aurora run by Tommy boy
Anonymous said...
Nothing says I am a nigger like suing your employer when you fall going in and out of your place of employment.
3/9/12 8:39 PM
And the hateful bigot contingent is heard from. Lots of whites, hispanics, asians, etc. do the same thing. I'm totally anti-Hart-Burns, and agree w/ pretty much every other comment on this post, but your comment is totally out of line. And if Openline has any ethics or credibility, your post will be deleted.
Which of course means it's not going anywhere.
6:08 You are right. I'll amend my comments. Okay change it to stupid fucking nigger.
9:24. For the record, most of us would much rather be your so-called "stupid fucking nigger" than the epitome of cowardice in an anonymous post spouting his racial inferiority complex, ignorance, trailer-trashiness and mommy issues on a blog.
So you are prejudice against people who live in trailers and love their mother? Very diverse of you.
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