Hi Brian,

Thanks for posting here. Before those who read this with a sharper eye than I jump in to dissect these figures, I wanted to make a point about your willingness to engage. It is something we often don't see here in NEO - politicians engaging online.

I am reading The Cluetrain Manifesto subtitled The End of Business as Usual. In it there is an interesting section on talking. Please search talk on the link above to read the entire section. Here's the first paragraph, but you have to read the whole section to understand what I am getting at here. The beginning and end of the section -

How to Talk

We’re all learning to talk anew. We’re all going to get it right and get it wrong. Two events in the fall of 1994 still serve as good cases in point for crisis management. In one case, resolute Ivory Tower isolation caused a major disaster. In the other, real conversation among concerned individuals saved the day.

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Lessons learned? The party’s already started. You can join or not. If you don’t, your silence will be taken as arrogance, stupidity, meanness, or all three. If you’re going to join, don’t do it as a legal entity or wearing your cloak of officialdom. Join it as a person with a name, a point of view, a sense of humor, and passion.

Cleveland is in a crisis, Cuyahoga County is in crisis. It is not news anymore, it is our way of life.

Just this morning I was clicking through the news and found this in cleveland.com - a link to the Cleveland Scene story -  Ronayne jumps in wrong race, led to the new county executive post in which they named Jill Miller Zimon among other potential candidates. Jill is the only person mentioned who did not exhibit what Doc Searls and David Weinberger authors of the chapter Markets are Conversations describe as "radio silence". We can see it pretty clearly that markets are conversations, but I think we can also appreciate that governing is a conversation, too.

So thank you for taking the time to engage here. This is where things are discussed. Here and elsewhere online where more voices can join. You just never know where a great idea will come from, do ya? Best to be open to all of them even if it does bring a bit-o-mudslinging from time to time.

Your colleagues would be well advised to follow your lead here and come out of the backroom deal-making parlors. But that's them, not you. Thanks for engaging.

I know that REAL NEO is a well informed site, with very intelligent individuals; I am very blessed by the information this site holds daily...it is the first thing I do each morning when I awake...I would like to apologize for my irrational behavior of my statements of leading "all" to investigate on the issues of the master plan and safeguard properties...I just found out about all of this and was shocked how all of these organizations and public officials  and corporations and the courts are all working together and taking advantage of all of us...for "the big plan".  I feel very violated of my rights as an american and feel nothing I do or say will help or change any of "What is really going on" I feel like it's all a big conspiracy. I have never been involved in politics...and now, I know WHY; but, that, is besides the point...remember, I don't know much about all of this, but, I am trying to get educated and understand...and I just don't understand "how Brooklyn Centre Community Association can apply for grant monies" when they haven't had an address or a phone number for monthes  on their web-site, let, alone, apply for 225,000 dollars still pending...at an address, that, will be addressed to the Art House at 3119 Denison Avenue...and the American Indian Education Center is located on the second floor of "Gino's Cento Anno" aka. Gino's bar; and Brian Cummins is pending 160,000 dollars for American Indian Education Center, at the address of "3121 Denison Avenue" isn't even an "address " known by, the postmaster, I spoke with this morning; after, I had google searched and then searched the yellow pages?  That is a total of 385,500.  That is a whole lot of money for not having an address!  By law "A HOMELESS PERSON OR FAMILY CAN"T GET FOOD STAMPS TO EAT IF THEY DON"T HAVE AN ADDRESS  While in the meantime, the code-enforcer and the rest of "them" are all parked daily for many many monthes  in the back lot of the the Steel Valley Federal Credit Union....just, "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???  Are they paying rent or who is donating for all these individuals spaces to work...???

thank you for returning to realneo.We appreciate your comments. 

However, it would be very helpful and beneficial to the community if you would elaborate more on your "Safeguard Properties" knowledge and what happened in your neighborhood.

Please advise.,,,,,,,  what is really going on?

thank you for the posting.  I am sure one of us will look into your tips.

I read the original postings that mytown55 did and s/he never brought up Safeguard at all and says in todays posting that s/he is shocked by this.  

For weeks I have thought that you uncovered this scandal and wondered where you got started! Thanks, because I missed it again tonight. And, thank you again, lmiller, for all the work that you have done and continue to do on this subject. I wonder if the corporate hierarchy were untangled and made public, what common patterns would emerge (names of investors). 

shocked , puzzled and confused by mytown55's comments myself.  but will dig around on the new allegations and remain grateful for her/his postings.

Judge Ray Pianka should set an example by using this horrible tragedy to punish the absentee mortgage scammers that are only making the foreclosure crisis worse.   And he will........

"Safeguarding" VACANT property by mortgage owners should be ordered and strictly enforced.  However, breaking and entering, stealing property and harassing owner occupied homes involved in the foreclosure crisis is not acceptable.

 Mytown55 you have every right to be suspicious, but let me clear up one of your queries--3121 is 3120 Denison.  Mistakes abound at the City of Cleveland--intentional and unintentional, but still owned by Art House at this time.

Brian finally acknowledged SOME of the NDA monies allocated in the 2009-2010 funding cycle, but conveniently left off the monies he has allocated (no doubt) to TWDC and Detroit Shoreway... I am also concerned about the ~ $10,000 raise Deb Zeleny sees for code enforcement during this recession (82,000-93,000).

That said--better late than never, I can say as one of the folks who endured Section 106 meetings to undo the criminal efforts of Sheryl Hoffman/Abe Bruckman...I can only say I am grateful that Brian Cummins is following through with his efforts to save Wirth House and the adjacent Victorian streetscape.

I do have to say WTF!>?! to this, too--$115,000 to a Mural?!  Especially, as we have seen less money $106,000 allocated to street repairs...

Should a huge sum of CDBG be spent on this property in a ward where the need is so great? I'd rather see the property boarded and mothballed safely until private investors can be found to save it, and spend the money that can be used to provide services to hungry, cold, residents that live in Ward 14.

DWebb,

I don't disagree that we need money spent on services, but those of us, who live in this neighborhood need some touchstones to the history that defines this neighborhood and we have already made significant investments to that end. 

Besides, council NDA funds don't traditionally go to health and human service causes.  They are primarily intended for bricks and mortar "development" with the bulk of monies going to fund those pesky Community Development Corporations, set up by the Community Reinvestment Act to ostensibly promote reinvestment, but, in truth, completely compromised. 

Now, CDCs are just sinecures for suburban progeny--incubators for the next generation of elitists deciding our fate from Bay Village, Solon, Westlake etc.

 The City is bankrupt. We can't even get those potholes patched, and the mayor is not being a leader. Moody has downgraded the City, GCP is talking about renovating Public Square, and there is not any mention of doing what it takes to get jobs going in this City. It is hard to even think of the political process when a person has no job, and no hopes of a better tomorrow.  

So, you say the city is bankrupt....

1) How can someone (Code Enforcement Officer-$93,0000)-be slated to earn more than the councilman ($75,000?)  is slated to make under his very own regime? Sounds highly questionable to me.

How much do the city inspectors make? Why are we paying "Code Enforcement Officers" at CDC's to do the city inspector's job? Why aren't the folks being paid out of HUD FUNDS (code enforecment officers)  using it to assist the low income, as it should be?

 This is a new day and age.... time for the old regimes to find new ways of assisting this community as the results of their old happy actions historically are written all over the boards of thousands of vacant, vandalized homes in our community! (Low income) OWNERS end up spending more time in housing court figuring out how to stay out of jail than getting well needed assistance to remediate the little problems.

2) Whether it's bankrupt, they are still receiving Federally subsidized HUD CDBG funding which should still trickle down to the CDC's... shouldn't it? Or are all those funds nullified too? 

3) Isn't street repair money and the $400,000 allocations per year of CDBG funds different funds? Where is the CDBG Funding going in 2010? 

4) Since Daryl Rush (the attorney and director of Community Development for the City of Cleveland was SUSPENDED last week for abusive practices....and his assistant too.... who's going to be the new oversight and protect our CDBG funding since it's a proven fact that these folks are running the same game as the corrupt county officials...? 

5) Who can we depend on to allow us that transparency????? 

6) Where's the city's pork list so that we can scrutinize it? 

7) Heck, I'd settle for the current budget of my ward spending? 

8) Potholes took out my tire last week and my tie rod this week. My car is now deadlined...and you say-go get a job? Hello! I called a half dozen times about those potholes...the project was started and then stopped on Fulton due to inclement weather. But Denison, Fulton, and Clark are yet to be finished. And now we have to hear that they won't get fixed? So, what are they doing with that money, reallocating it???? (I've always been diffused by being told that those monies are allocated the YEAR BEFORE....) 

9) Corruption...Aragon Ballroom-no code enforcement going on there? (Oh, we don't want to ruse the sleeping dog (in jail) Mr. Pat O'Malley.

10) Who is the CDC of choice for referrals by our new councilman? Who is he funding and for what exact purposes? 

11) What exactly is the job description and activities of the councilman's assistant? It might help us to know what to expect when we attempt to call the Councilman's office.

When is there anyone in the councilman's office? (Hours of Business, staff?) 

Where is the councilman's new office? 

What are his plans for the community? 

What actions is he taking in 2010 since he took office?

How is he incorporating the community at large into his plans? 

Councilman Brian Cummins took office in January....it's almost ST. Patrick's Day....minimal updates on REALNEO about the current actions/activities...etc... So, I'd really like to know what is going on with this new regime? 

Is there a Ward 14 website that we can check into for updates as to activities? Is this councilman going to send out newsletters to the chosen few voters or to the entire residential list of the W-14 database? 

Are you hosting community forums? 

Who are you doing community planning with? 

How can the residents participate and have the opportunity to review your plans? 

Is there a schedule of upcoming events that are public providing citizen involvement in W14?

What's new and exciting since you took office? 

How are you actively working to assist families of W14 in your office? 

What kind of upcoming planning commission projects should our citizens be made aware of? 

How do you plan to actively keep your citizens aware of activities going on? Are you doing an email newsletter? Are you doing anything new that incorporates the citizens into your objectives and allows them the opportunity to be involved? 

What programs are you implementing to address the needs of felons in our ward so that they are part of the solution and not the problem? 

Can you legislate a law in the city of cleveland that makes scrap dealers require the scrappers to provide both a copy of a city permit and house address when they scrap out pipes from houses? Perhaps the idea of scrappers showing their own id is just not enough...and there's not enough watch dogging going on there either. Those scrappers are raping our city, the investors who tried to invest in this community, and feeding off the already disenfranchised owners within this city. Maybe if we spent a few weeks having the police stand for 10 hours a day at the front door of every scrap yard in NEO-then these scrappers would get the picture...! (Just a dumb idea since most are wanted criminals living off of this under the table scheme of earnings anyhow!) 

What kind of incentives are you promoting within your regime to invite new businesses and investors into W14? 

Are you going to kill the spirit of those new business investors with your excessive code enforcement? 

What kind of grant opportunities are available for the folks who stay here everyday in this community? (Business, real estate, etc.) 

Are you holding open opportunities for new ideas to be proposed for winning your CDBG Funding allotment? (Or are you funding in the same old fashion as all the rest?) 

What is so different about you than all the rest? 

How are you empowering our residents? 

How are you inspiring the residents? 

What fun events are you providing the underpriviliged citizens in our ward? 

What are you doing to inspire politics within the high school and encourage the students to be actively engaged in cleaning up their own community? 

Other than adding extra police to the afterschool releases to reduce gang activity-what kind of pilot projects are you investing in regarding our youth? 

What kind of collaboratives are you entering into regarding services like: 
Boys and Girls Clubs, The Boy Scouts, The Girl Scouts, The Young Marines, The US Naval Sea Cadets Corps, etc.???????? (YOUTH COLLABORATIVES).

What kind of jobs are you working to create for our residents? 

Are you offering your CDBG Funding to small business & Entreprenuers within our ward? 
(It's my understanding that these small businesses often generate lots of local revenues!)

Who is your small business liaison for new business investors? 

I apologize for running down a list of questions about your regime....I just have no way to go out and make a living with a broke down car, no babysitter, and a list of issues a mile wide...but at least I keep fighting to overcome them in the true spirit of an American while chronically watching abusive practices ruthlessly annihilate the spirit of our citizens!!! Oops....was that some cynicism? Yep.

I had faith that you'd do something new, different, and absolutely priceless within our community to conquer the old, inspire new, and abate the old corruption....I'll work to keep that faith for as long as possible... but I am truly finding it to be defeatest caring about this community in consideration of the "SYSTEM" which is obviously failing the people. I have waited patiently for current updates believing that you were active in the REALNEO arena... Yet, I haven't seen much since you took office and that has me questioning everything....how are you going to sustain transparency for the masses through your tenure of 2010-2014? Just curious!

It is not too much to ask for answers...

Thanks Laura for making me laugh so hard....I didn't think anyone could do that.... Remember, I am nobody to those folks...it's not like they will answer my questions...

 and great questions deserve a proper forum for the answers. I suggest an early summer ward 14 get together in a comfortable environment with a couple of strong chairperson who are residents, and have a Q & A session.

Doesn't hurt to follow it with a little fun.

 Do they work for the CDC or the council person? How are they trained to know what is code? What qualifies them for this position? What do they do? Look for violations and report to the real inspectors? Do enforcers issue citations? Do enforcers approach with potential solutions, or is it a citation then you are on your own. Are they supervised by real inspectors. All of this does not make sense. Just give the money to the City to hire a real inspector that answers to a professional board of inspectors.

Well...what about monthly town hall meetings being reinstated?

What about monthly Ward 14 Conventions where every agency is required to attend the forum? Ouch...too much work....but it would begin to filter through overlapping funding sources.....hahahah-that'd be a real trigger to all these social service providers....redundant resource providers would be eliminated if they were unable to stand independently without government funding...

BEST DAYS OF THE YEAR FOR THIS....OPEN HOUSES AT EVERY SCHOOL..... PARENTS AND RESIDENTS GO TO THESE EVENTS.... MOST INVOLVEMENT WOULD OCCUR OUT OF THIS.

Why only get an update one night a year?....We deserve regular updates...like a transparent and interactive website. RealNeo works for me....it's a public forum too! 

 It's time to drop the dog and pony shows, to find new ways to get these citizens engaged, and to offer them direct opportunities to be involved....notices through the school to the parents should be distributed every month! Parents are a vital part of the meetings...and if only a few show, it's a start! 

Too many ideas, too little support by the leadership.

They don't need a forum in this community...especially not one like MR. Santiago portrayed on us where the really good questions got overlooked and avoided because he couldn't handle the truth about his actions....

You and I have the basic concepts understood, but the majority of our citizens don't get it all... and learning to convey and invite them into those forums is what I believe needs to occur if this leadership wants to make a profound impact....

OFFER THESE FAMILIES DIRECT INCENTIVES for participating actively! Prepare monthly newsletters that outline the direct activities and monitor activities.... do something transparent that empowers citizens to understand the big and little operations.... educate them a little.... don't dictate-, but incorporate them.... offer a door prize, chinese raffles, etc...maybe even free child care for a couple hours.

They are the experts...not me. But, it's evident that the same old options are not working fundamentally in this community....it's a disenfranchised, dissociated, and desperate community to conquer.... but the few who are not totally frustrated as above, keep on keeping on for the benefit of the rest!

At the end of the day...why should we participate? They just do whatever they please anyhow. They fund who they want to fund without giving us the opportunity to propose new ideas, to object or to support any of their projected funding proposals. They collude with whoever they want to because we cannot ascertain transparent leadership from any of them.

They will continue indefinitely in this methodology because it truly works to their benefit along the way!!!!!!

What a waste of time being a caring concerned citizen in this city! It's a joke... I must admit that now I truly have experienced what all those folks tried to explain to me about this city regime when I was so full of hope and initiative.... I now understand the feelings of being DISILLUSIONED, DEFEATED, and DISCOURAGED....

I have found most of the answers to the questions here, that, are being asked.  I went to Councilman Cummins council site page....on his left side of his page is "THE CITY RECORD" .... as you begin to read .... All activity of the city will be revealed ... you will need to start from the begining of each meeting of each of the records starting with the January 6, 2010 through the last record posted....to find out the answers to your questions;  also, there... in, that, "Box" are the "CODIFIED ORDINANCES", which, to my understanding, are the "NEW LAWS"???....that, the "Specialized Code Enforcement officers go by...to Tell the city building inspectors and all the other officials ...just  "how to do" their jobs...  There is also information on "Councilman Brian Cummins" of the NSP project, all the budget hearings...etc.  All this information of "MEETINGS" is there posted for all of us to read.... of "OUR CHANGES".  This "CDC" action is, throughout, every city in the United States...Mind you...I have searched "where I could move, to enjoy my retirement, without having to be involved in any of this vicious activity"!  The truth will set you free.

Who's your block club leader? What's their number or email? 

Who's your precinct leader? What is their number or email? 

Who's your neighbor? What's their last name and phone number? 

What did you do the last time a new family moved onto your street? Did you give them a warm welcome? 

Did you tell your kids to help shovel snow for the elderly? 

What are the names of the kids on your street and who are their parents...better yet, do you even know where they live?  

Have you even said "hello" to your neighbors recently? 

I think most of our city residents have lost track of the basics.....

And the leadership is missing some fundamental values.....

Everything starts at home...and with only 168 hours in a week...it's tough to be everywhere... moreover, it's unbelievable to realize that the basic concepts of democracy have gone by the wayside.

I worked hard last summer, enthusiastically working to rile up sleeping citizens who aren't paying any attention...to the unbelievable activities that are going on daily in our city government... But, the politicians almost like the control that they end up with because most of the citizens have become so apathetic that they don't even fight for their rights anymore.... they don't even know their rights for the most part. More importantly, so many are clueless about the chain of command within the basic city government that they don't even try to participate.  (Nice article from the Future of Freedom Foundation!) 

Block Club Leaders: aka NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH and CRIME PREVENTION -When I was a kid....all the adults on our street knew eachother, First and Last Names plus kids' names were known.  All of the adults were proactive about the wellbeing of our "community" and street. They all maintained their homes, worried about inspectors, and sustained their responsibilities as homeowners with pride by planting gardens of flowers and making sure that the little maintenance issues were sustained.

Our residents once cared about eachother and communicated with each other-even when they disagreed, they collectively worked to keep the value of their homes by watching out for eachother and helping eachother. Through democracy....we lived, learned, and laughed...and yes, there were disputes that were mitigated too....over property lines, flowerbeds, and kids with bikes running over the corner of someone's beautiful lawn.

There were summer days when every neighbor on the street sat on their porches as us kids ran freely up and down the street. The elders in our neighborhood were revered with the most pristine and impeccable lawn on the street...AND NO ONE WALKED ON IT.... They put their lawn chairs in the middle of the sidewalk to be social during the beautiful days.

Citizen Governance can be powerful....perhaps intimidating to leadership who wishes to undermine citizens.....so they work to disempower our residents by removing basic leadership tools from our perception... (TAKE TIME TO READ THIS LINK...NICE ARTICLE!!!) 

PHONE TREES (EMAIL TREES WORK TOO!) Phone numbers were all listed in the phonebook to call the other kids' parents-so you knew not to break the rules-because parents did not hesitate to call upon eachother and snitch us kids out for any little mishap. I am glad I had other adults on my street that  cared so much. If my folks didn't send us to church, the neighbors drug us to their church...but we somehow got there pretty regularly for a long time.

Us kids couldn't walk across the street without getting a snapping adult yelling at us for not looking both ways. Those were the good ole days.... but now, my kid knows not to even ask me to go outside the house without an adult with her...not even into our yard because of the lurking predators surrounding our zip code! Perhaps that is extreme, but it's a way of life to be imprisoned into your own home these days....

Precinct Leaders: When I was a kid, there were tons of citizens vying for positions as Precinct Leaders within our ward (A non paying position within both the Democratic  and Republican Parties that end up on the ballot come Spring.) Today, most citizens do NOT EVEN KNOW what the Precinct leader is or what their job description is or how they relate to the entire government picture. They are absolutely confused by the reference.

When you call the Board of Elections, they refer you back to the "parties" (Republicans and Democrats) for how to get "nominated" to those said positions.....and also how to get elected.... but if you had wanted to file a petition to be on the ballot on May 04, 2010 as a democratic precinct leader-then you were supposed to file your petition with only 5 signatures to the BOE by no later than February 18th's deadline this year. (75 days before the election).... Sorry democratic precinct leader possibles-you'll have to wait until 2014 to run for that position again....but if one of the many precincts within our ward have a vacancy-(Last year there were many unfilled democratic & republican party precinct leader vacant slots....)- well, maybe the party of your choice may have an alternative way to be nominated to that vacant slot in the interim....but I didn't get to those answers in my learning curve today! 

Ultimately, if you are a Republican, you can try to get on the ballots in the beginning of 2014....for the Spring 2014 election! 

Where is the leadership in Ward 14? Who are our block club leaders? Who are our precinct leaders? How are the citizens being notified of the chain of command that can empower it to communicate better? Maybe I can review the City Records for a few hours to get the simple answers....and then some. Time to digest that work of art into some simple context for the simple folks! 

I tried to find the actual written professional job description of a "Precinct Leader." It used to be that they worked between the residents of their Ward for their party and the Councilman to accomplish all the little things. Today, the question of being a republican or democrat is so cloudy with Green Party, Independents, and Communists all participating.... The system of 2 parties has become disillusioning to citizens...and so, they all steer away from participating actively.... If the parties don't engage the citizens of our city... then they don't have to be faced with the results of years of political steering....which has been disruptive to the cores of neighborhoods.... leading to a day and age when so many residents don't even have a  clue of the purpose of a "PRECINCT LEADER"....

Since so many kids in Cleveland don't make it to a real high school Government Class (given in 12th grade in Ohio).... they miss out on these little basics of democracy. Today, I was reminded that none of that matters-for when they become adults it's their problem and when they were kids it was their parents' responsibility to get them through school.... But at the end of the day....

To divide and conquer the (DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN) parties...the other parties came up with "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT"....  Now, the little things are overshadowed by the CDC structure...... In lamen's terms... our basic government resources have become undermined by reinventing the wheel through the independent, not for profit, Community Development Diagram.... and somewhere along the line.... block clubs, precinct leaders, city inspectors, and citizen involvement disintegrated! POOF! 

Too many chiefs and not enough indians!

Sorry about my cynicism.... a majority of these folks at ALL levels are so busy REFERRING you to the next person, that you rarely get anyone qualified to make a command decision for these agencies....it's a nightmare of bureacracy--- the new democracy at it's best!!! 

Our government is wasting millions on redundancies....disempowering ingenutivity, failing to use those well intended grant programs to offer incentives to NEW BUSINESSES, and trying to sustain old programs that have valiantly created upside down pyramid schemes where the administrators make excessive salaries without providing progressive results.....(Downsizing HUD CDBG Spending....smiles!)

Now, becoming a Precinct Leader was about taking on a leadership role as a liaison within a specific neighborhood and communicating with both the residents in your neighborhood and the councilman... It was a good position for those neighborhood activists and watchdogs....because they usually care selflessly about their little neighborhood and they work to get results without a paycheck. They maintained the logs of residents, (Democrats/Republicans), they sustained commo and kept residents happy about life in the neighborhood by driving results, and then they ultimately became a tool for elections for the parties to drive election time activities....and slowly, as CDC's took over-the precinct leaders slowly became ineffective within their precinct as a liaison and the CDC's became the reference....

And then, I read the "Live CLEVELAND 2009" publication presented by the Living in Cleveland Center...and I fell out of my chair with the "PERCEPTION IS REALITY" monsters who worked so hard to hide the decay behind their development. Pardon me for being more cynical...I guess I am sincerely wondering how ethical it was to fund these developments with HUD dollars when so few of them would ever be considered "AFFORDABLE" housing for low income families..... ($112,000-$650,000 homes, townhouses, and condos-BEAUTIFUL!) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Baffling.... Steering in the high income buyers will help the low income folks how? And meanwhile....we have entire streets almost completely boarded up and being condemned and prepped for demo with no end in sight....nice.

Just my dumb opinion.... trying to remain calm under sheer duress! 

Smiles! 

P.S....kudos to the community gardeners....kudos to the activists who are working grassroots redevelopment....and kudos to the few who work unselfishly to build up our most quantifiable resource....our families! The little people appreciate your efforts! 

the "theory" at the beginning - how it was sold to those of us who were living here then was that cdc's (along with chn) were going to promote home ownership.  and in the early days did.

one premise was that owner occupied homes create more stable neighborhoods.

20 - 30 years later, owner occupied homes are not what is being promoted, as cdc's and chn have seemingly moved on to other missions.   

  I had to file a records request with the City of Cleveland law department and still I could not get the Year 36 $400,000 NDA allotments put out by Councilman Cummins. 

Old Brooklyn CDC is mighty mad that they will not be getting slush money from Councilman Cummins.  Who pays Westlake resident and CDC Director Sandys' $80,000+ salary???

Cummins will not fund OBDC starting in July 2010--which is good news for me. 

The big question for everyone?? Who is getting it?