UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015
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WHAT IS CATAZARO-PERRY'S
"REAL" POSITION ON DISCUSSING
NIST WORK QUALITIES?
"REAL" POSITION ON DISCUSSING
NIST WORK QUALITIES?
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ANOTHER MAIER
"FRIEND FOR LIFE"
POLITICALLY/VOCATIONALLY
BENEFITS FROM HAVING KNOWN
GEORGE T. MAIER?
The SCPR thought instantly on Wednesday night, April 29th at her appearance at a Legends neighborhood meeting coming just days before Tuesday's May 5th primary election (quietly now: what The Report thinks was a "political repair" mission) when Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry made an ill-advised comment on the capabilities of Doug Nist to be Parks & Recreation director (video of comments to come later): Wow! how is Mr. Nist going to react to this.
Today, a little after a week later we have the answer.
He quit in disgust at all the politics surrounding his desire "just to do his job."
Not long ago Al Hennon, the highly respected former superintendent of Massillon City Schools resigned as safety director.
While he publicly said his resignation was for personal considerations; the SCPR has been told by a number of Massillon elected officials that he quit in frustration of trying to work with the mayor and her "unofficial" advisors.
The irony of Hennon's resignation is that he was all set to run for Massillon City Council president as a Republican when the mayor and presumably Hennon's good friend Johnnie A. Maier, Jr prevailed upon him to become safety director which was held temporarily by Jim Johnson after George T. Maier (Johnnie's brother) resigned in order to run for Stark County sheriff.
Of course, we all know what a political joy ride that was.
A little over a week ago, Mayor Kathy was introducing former Ohio State Highway Patrol officer Joel Smith as her replacement for Hennon's after saying just a few weeks ago that she was going to take her "good ole time" selecting a replacement.
There obviously has to be a connection between Smith and George T. from Maier's days as a State Highway Patrolman and his days as former "second in command" in the Ohio Department of Highway Safety.
Very recently Maier hired a former State Highway Patrolman as his chief deputy in charge of the Stark County jail.
So the mayor has had four safety directors, several parks and recreation department directors, a number of police chiefs, a couple of economic development directors and changes in the head of the streets department.
Undoubtedly, a number of them did not leave in disgust as Nist did today.
MAYOR CATAZARO-PERRY ON DIRECTOR NIST
The mayor probably thinks she did not discuss Doug Nist's qualities as Massillon Parks and Recreation director.
After a fashion, the SCPR thinks she did but before she said in response to a specific question about Nist that she would not discuss his performance.
Technically she can argue that she did not.
But some might think in that she assessed him as to his qualities pre-hire and thus her disclaimer was a distinction without a difference.
You be the judge.
The SCPR thinks she did in the sense that her comments signaled that no matter what Nist did as director, she was not going to be satisfied.
Though not on this particular video, in the "full" SCPR video of her April 28 Legends appearance (LINK), the mayor is to be seen constantly discussing how two consultants are going to be reworking Parks and Recreation - BUT MIND YOU, THEY REPORT TO DOUG - and she herself in the beginning will be micromanaging at least The Legends golf course and some may interpret her remarks as an intent (in the immediate future) to micromanage the entire department which of course includes Director Doug Nist, no?
The "real" message is that "the wheels are coming off" the Catazaro-Perry administration wagon!
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