Cassandra Jackson is one of the most respected attorneys and is well-respected by everyone at COT, except for the City Manager Reese Goad. He doesn’t respect her or her office. She is resigning because of the toxic environment that has been created. He and his staff who believe they are so much smarter than her, don’t side with her opinion. Over 99% of the time, he dismisses her opinion and lets his Assistant City Managers make the decisions. You have a City Attorney to protect you and provide guidance on many complex issues.

A deeper dive needs to take place on the managers and supervisors who have been forced to resign or were fired or ultimately resigned this year. There were a lot of good people who worked hard but because they weren’t part of the inner circle, they were forced out. One of those people include a high-ranking manager who was forced out because of this recent text scandal. On that note, one of the city’s core values is Customer Service is our Business. If any average employee was caught using their city phone and making disparaging comments about the public, they would be fired without cause. But why does the upper management think they can get around it? Because they can! They are protected by the corrupt city manager.

On a related note, why is that the TPD collective bargaining contract was signed in one meeting and the TFD contract has been dragged out with over 10 meetings and still no compromise? Is it because of politics, PBA is supported by Dailey, Williams-Cox and Richardson and TFD’s IAFF is supported by Matlow and Porter? In addition, is it also because the IAFF filed an ethics complaint against City Manager Goad? None of that should matter if we are made to believe that public safety is all that matters.

Finally, if TR really wants to uncover some of the truths at City Hall, find out about the inflated Strategic Innovation Department. What do they do? How many of their employees have been brought on by the department then farmed out to other departments to become supervisors with no experience? What’s the latest with the 2024 Strategic Plan, any updates? Do a deep dive into the new pay structure of retirees coming back into executive levels! Who is benefiting from it?

Finally, and I mean finally this time, how can Steve Stewart and TR provide “facts” and clear objectivity when they are receiving revenue as a vendor by the City and Blueprint and they are advertising on this site? Right now, I am looking at an ad to promote Blueprint and yesterday there was an ad to FlyTLH, the airport’s site.

This isn’t about the “election season,” it’s about uncovering the sad reality of how disillusioned many of us has become to the real truth.

You are missing the point.

Again, it’s time for the state legislature to step in and remove the city manager and mayor as this city has gone totally corrupt with this city manager and mayor.

This should have been part of the article. I don’t know why TR left this out?

Suspicious that this information was left out of this article and TR has not published an expose from Terry Ryan on the sewage spill. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together and it doesn’t look good that there is a cover-up going on. TR can do better.