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Rita Murphy, Neighborhood Services
I just got off the phone with Rita Murphy of Neighborhood Services. She had no answers to my questions.
1) I asked her who would take responsibility for the fiasco of Sunday night.
2) I asked her why, if a City Official, Councilman Jackson, pulled the permit, why wasn't a city official, namely the one who pulled the permit, there to supervise the event.
3) I asked her why there were no police there to supervise the event and why the entire police force had to come to quell the near riot.
4) I asked her about Chief Esserman's concept of Neighborhood Policing, because Esserman told the Mt. Hope Community,at a GCCC meeting, that the District Commander would be like a neighborhood czar, a liaison between all city departments, a person who would know everything that was going on in the neighborhood. I asked her why the police did not know about the event.
5) I asked her why no permit was pulled for an event in the park, why the event was held without the Parks Department's knowledge or permission.
6) I asked her if I could get a copy of the permit for legal reasons.
7) I asked her who sponsored the event, who, besides Kevin Jackson, was behind the event.
8) I asked her how many more times will we have to go through this.
Ms. Murphy had no answers for me to any of the questions. She told me that she had not talked to the parties involved yet but that she would get answers for me.
We all know that there are no good answers to any of those questions.
The whole thing is inexcusable. We are lucky that no one got killed up there in Billy Taylor Park.
Posted at June 12, 2007 02:15 PM
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Finally after my 10th request to Ms.Murphey she responded. She responded with a threat!!
Great city officials we have working for US!
I bid you a good day Ms. Murphy, you Ma'am are NO LADY!
Posted by: Dennis Cregg at August 15, 2007 11:31 AM
"Go Mayor's office of NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES"!!!
As of today, July 30, I have followed up with Rita Murphy 6 times. She has yet to get back to me with any concrete answers!
Posted by: Dennis Cregg at July 30, 2007 01:12 PM
As of today..After 6 inquiries to Ms.
Rita Murphy, Head of The Mayor's office of NEIGHBORHOOD services, I received a response...
It was as follows (please note I am paraphrasing)..............
Please speak to the Lt. of your district (who is AWESOME, my words not hers!!!!!) and/ or your councilman (who rolled his eyes when Ms. Taylor called many of my neighbors and myself as "LILY WHITE ASSES", not to mention the level of professionalism that Mr. Jackson demonstrated whist taking mobile phone calls during the last 2 meetings held at 199 Camp St.......... Am I crazy to be appalled by this????????????
Posted by: Dennis Cregg at July 25, 2007 09:18 PM
In addition to the original post, I have followed up with Ms. Rita Murphy 4 times as of July 20 and have yet to receive a response.
Posted by: D.Cregg at July 20, 2007 12:21 PM