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May 6, 2009

Hanceville mayor grabbing for money

Mayor Kenneth Nail has done nothing but make an issue about the city having no money. Now he wants a $21,400 expense account.

Nail knew the salary for the mayor when he ran for office. If there is no money, where is his expense account coming from? I’m sure it is not coming from the legislature where Sen. Zeb Little is introducing an bill to give him this expense account. See the legal ad in Sunday’s paper. Sen. Little was also the prosecuting attorney for the city of Hanceville, isn’t that interesting?

The bill says it will provide a car for Mayor Nail to drive. He already has a city car, plus gas to use for official business. He drives it to the Cullman Jefferson Gas Board meetings and gets paid mileage from the gas board. This is called double dipping. But do you think Mayor Nail cares?

Mayor Nail already receives a salary and benefits as an employee of the city of Cullman, plus compensation from the Cullman Jefferson Gas by serving on the board. Sen. Little, do you not realize that this is against the Alabama State Constitution?

In the bill Sen. Little is proposing a $250-dollar-a-month increase for each council member. This is also illegal. Where is this money coming from? According to Mayor Nail the city is broke.

This is a total of $36,000 per year. Where is the money coming from, Mayor Nail, when according to you the city is broke?

Mayor Nail claims he is cleaning up all the messes that was left by the previous administration. What about the mess he left at the Hanceville Water and Sewer Board as chairman for six years?

Several million dollars in debt, no decent water to drink, the water that is forced upon us has so much calcium deposits that it stops up your shower heads, jets in your commodes and corrodes the elements in your hot water tank and causes them to burn out.

There have been fines year after year for the sewer spills, and an enormous amount paid to clean up these spills, no repair ever to the sewer system under his leadership. Now he says that this is his top priority to do something about the sewer.

Why did he not do something six years ago besides increase his compensation as chairman and raise water and sewer rates?

Calvin Armstrong

Hanceville

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