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Posted on Sep 30, 2018
By Meghan Christian
“All I’m gonna say is: get the word out. When you hear me say I want to change the complexion of this council, and people say is it a threat, no. It’s factually what I’m going to do,” First Ward Councilperson Eric Mays said during his final comments at the Sept. 24 Flint City Council (FCC) meeting.
First Ward Councilperson Eric Mays (Flint City Council photo)
“If I have to go in two wards and find people in that ward and help them circulate petitions to get the number to change the complexity of the recall ballot…and right now I’m targeting the Fourth Ward and the Ninth Ward…that’s what I’m going to do,” he added.
The Fourth Ward is represented by Councilperson Kate Fields; the Ninth by Councilperson Eva Worthing.
“They can come in my ward if they want, but I’m going to come in theirs and work with people under the law, because I’m not going to go through this mess for three more years,” Mays said, referring to building tensions that have progressively increased among FCC members. Tensions appeared to first come to a head at the Sept. 10 FCC meeting, where both Fields and Worthing spoke out against what they said was unfair treatment they were receiving, specifically from Mays.
“Mr. Mays wants to attack certain council people…in the discussion he is attacking people…,” Fields said at the Sept. 10 meeting before she was interrupted by Sixth Ward Councilperson and Council President Herb Winfrey.
“It’s not equal treatment to let Mr. Mays say whatever he wants and attacks members…and then Ms. Fields is addressing it and you tell her to move on,” Worthing said at the Sept. 10 meeting in defense of Fields.
Ninth Ward Councilperson Eva Worthing (Flint City Council photo)
Fields and Eighth Ward Councilperson Allan Griggs were absent from the Sept. 24 meeting. While present for most of the meeting, Worthing had left by the time of final council comments.
Some residents also spoke out against the recent behavior of council members, citing name calling, personal attacks, and lack of civility as main issues. Ethics and Accountability Board Interim Vice President Allen Gilbert took it upon himself to deliver a lesson on civility to the council during his public speaking opportunity, quoting the Ethics Handbook for Michigan Municipalities:
“‘Civility can help set the tone for demonstrating fair and just treatment in hearings and investigations. However impossible it might be to mandate, civility might be inspired by conscentious attention to the trappings of the meeting of a public body…or the conscious example of members of the public body itself’,” Gilbert read.
“I hope that, as Council, we can restore civility. It is a very difficult environment to work in when it’s hostile, when there’s name calling,” Worthing said at the Sept. 24 meeting.
“When you look at how much anguish and struggling…that our citizens are going through, and what they have gone through, they have a right to expect more out of us when we come to do city business here,” Council President Winfrey said at the Sept. 24 meeting. Addressing his colleagues, he added, “I want you all to do better. Your citizens that elected you deserve better.”
Second Ward Councilperson Maurice Davis (Flint City Council photo)
It is not just between council members where tempers have been flaring. Resident and community activist Quincy Murphy addressed Second Ward Councilperson Maurice Davis at both the Sept. 10 and Sept. 24 FCC meetings regarding recent comments made about Murphy by Davis. The comments range from Davis referring to Murphy as a “fake activist” to downplaying Murphy’s work in the community.Qu
“I feel that Mr. Davis is coming at me…and at times, at his colleagues,” Murphy said. “Not one time have I ever came to this podium and personally attacked anyone…I’m asking for the same respect,” he added.
However, during the FCC meeting on Sept. 24, Davis publicly apologized to Murphy for his behavior in previous meetings. “I’d like to say to Mr. Murphy, I’m going to sit up here and apologize publicly…because one thing I am not is perfect,” Davis said. “So we just leave our differences aside because there’s too much business that needs to be handled,” he added.
“I would just like to say that I think it’s really gentlemanly of Mr. Davis to apologize for those comments,” Worthing said.
EVM Managing Editor Meghan Christian can be reached at meghan.christian22@gmail.com. |
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Councilman Eric Mays threatens lawsuit over his removal from ...
https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/.../councilman_eric_mays_threatens.html
Jul 13, 2015 - Flint city Councilman Eric Mays demanded a public apology and threatened a lawsuit after he claimed other council members "unlawfully ..MLive
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Councilman Eric Mays threatens lawsuit over his removal from meeting
Updated July 13, 2015 at 10:36 PM; Posted July 13, 2015 at 6:07 PM
Flint Councilman Eric Mays cutoff as he threatens discrimination lawsuit against city
Flint Council President Josh Freeman cuts off councilman Eric Mays as mays threatens a discrimination lawsuit against the city over his removal from a July 8 committee meeting.s
By Gary Ridley
FLINT, MI -- Flint City Councilman Eric Mays demanded a public apology and threatened a lawsuit over his claims that council members "unlawfully conspired" to discriminate against him and his 1st Ward constituents when he was removed from a committee meeting.
Mays made the allegations Monday, July 13, during a committee of the whole meeting over his removal from a Wednesday, July 8, financial committee meeting.
The committee of the whole meeting began with a statement from Mays alleging that Council President Josh Freeman and Financial Committee Chairwoman Monica Galloway conspired against Mays when Galloway ordered him removed from the July 8 committee meeting.
Flint Councilman Eric Mays escorted by police from meeting Flint Councilman Eric Mays is led by police from a council committee meeting on July 8, 2015.
Mays, who is running for mayor, left the July 8 meeting with a police officer by his side after Galloway told Mays he was being disorderly and asked police to remove him.
"Your time is over. You're out of order. Your time is up," Galloway told Mays, who has been threatened with removal at several previous council meetings for refusing to yield the floor.
Flint Councilman Eric Mays talks to police after being forced to leave meeting Flint Councilman Eric Mays talks to police, including Chief James Tolbert, after having been forced to leave a City Council meeting Wednesday, July 10.
Flint police Chief James Tolbert said Mays was not arrested. But Mays, during his statement Monday, claimed he was "technically arrested" during the meeting. Mays added that he was not allowed to return to council chambers for the public safety committee meeting.
Mays was given two minutes to address fellow council members during Monday's committee of the whole meeting regarding his allegations. He was cut off by Freeman as his statement ran long.
Citizen confronts Flint Councilman Eric Mays A citizen confronts Flint Councilman Eric Mays outside the meeting he was forced to leave Wednesday, July 8.
Galloway, at the end of the meeting, asked Freeman to allow Mays to continue his statement.
"If I'm not going to get arrested, I'll continue my statement," Mays said.
Mays read from a damage claim form that he filed with the city, which outlined his allegations.
"Councilman Mays alleges that the reason that President Josh Freeman 'openly stated' on the record that he 'discriminates' against Councilman Mays based on 'ward' and 'sex' is because he did not realize all the 'legally' protected catagories (sic) as he attempted to profer (sic) a 'pretext' for race discrimination," the damage claim alleges.
Freeman declined to comment on Mays' allegations and Galloway declined to respond to his statement.
Mays demanded a public apology as part of the complaint. He also demanded that grass be cut on city-owned properties, which was being discussed at the time of his removal from the July 8 meeting, and that $20,000 be put into a special account for blight removal for the First Ward.
If the board does not settle his claims before the two weeks leading up to the city's mayoral primary election, Mays said he would file the allegations as part of a lawsuit in Genesee Circuit Court.
"Subpoenas will fly," Mays said. |
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Threats alleging discrimination from a man that wants "to change the complexion of the Council?"
Posted on Sep 30, 2018
By Meghan Christian
“All I’m gonna say is: get the word out. When you hear me say I want to change the complexion of this council, and people say is it a threat, no. It’s factually what I’m going to do,” First Ward Councilperson Eric Mays said during his final comments at the Sept. 24 Flint City Council (FCC) meeting. |
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