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Channel 9 - I Team - How much $ will Iris Roley's Sons Earn? · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: a library card anyhow, come on to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: our tech front of me Dave Hatter, fast forward one hour.
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  Speaker 1: We got Corey Bowman, former Meyrill candidate in studio talk
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  Speaker 1: about a whole bunch of issues. Maybe we'll ask them
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  Speaker 1: about the library cards. Uh. And Jack Winsor from the
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  Speaker 1: get iris rolling, and thanks again to Paula Christian and
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  Speaker 1: the itm over at Channel nine for revealing what I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you about in the second Yeah, the library
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  Speaker 1: card juvenile's facing charges. According to the Hamilton County Juvenile
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  Speaker 1: Court System, they announced this summer discovery initiative, So if
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  Speaker 1: you are charged as a juvenile, you must obtain a
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  Speaker 1: library card, obtain a membership to the neighborhood Cincinnati Rec
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  Speaker 1: Center or YMCA, and also bring a copy of the
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  Speaker 1: last quarter grades to the next court hearing. Question mark,
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  Speaker 1: do they force these juveniles who've been charged to use
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  Speaker 1: the library card or attend a rec center or YMCA.
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  Speaker 1: According to the administrative Judge Kerry Bloom statement, the perception
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  Speaker 1: that crime increases in the summer because kids lack structure
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  Speaker 1: is a valid concern. We hope to curb the narrative
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  Speaker 1: that there isn't anything to do in our communities by
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  Speaker 1: educating and empowering kids in a way that is required
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  Speaker 1: and monitored by the court. So I emphasized the word
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  Speaker 1: monitor because they can't I mean, generally speaking, Nanni Keenon
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  Speaker 1: can't even find convicted criminals who are out on ankle monitor.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Sarah Herringer, for example, the guy that murdered her
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  Speaker 1: husband in their own apartment. Yeah, he was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have an ankle monitor. We cut it off, so we
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  Speaker 1: can't even do that. How are we going to monitor
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  Speaker 1: the use of library cards and attending rec centers in YMCAs? Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: here's the problem, the administrator said. The goal is to
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  Speaker 1: connect each child with a supportive adult, tackle the underlying
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  Speaker 1: issue that led them to court, showcase the available community resources,
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  Speaker 1: and help integrate them positively into their neighborhoods to reduce
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  Speaker 1: repeat offenses. That's what Judge Bloom said. Well, haven't we
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  Speaker 1: already identified the issues? Because what they're asking here is
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  Speaker 1: for the creation of a city slash county system to
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  Speaker 1: act as a supportive adult. That's why they want to
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  Speaker 1: connect one with a supportive adult. Hopefully that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the library, maybe the Cincinnai rec Center. But in the
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  Speaker 1: final analysis, haven't we identified the underlying problem? Children who
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  Speaker 1: can be out at two o'clock in the morning, running
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  Speaker 1: them up in streets and committing crimes that lead them
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  Speaker 1: to be charged, lack structure at home. There we do
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  Speaker 1: problem solved. Provide structure at home and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: the problems over two iteam iris rollio. I'm sure this
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  Speaker 1: will come up in my conversation with Corey Bowman this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you know who. She is, a consultant for
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  Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. She came to prominence during the
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  Speaker 1: post riots in the City of Cincinnati, which resulted in
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  Speaker 1: the Collaborative Agreement, and some have given her a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit for the Collaborative Agreement. Has been around for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of decades now, hasn't it. She is still around.
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  Speaker 1: So she's got a contract with the City of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: consulting contract worth six hundred plus thousand dollars. What did
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  Speaker 1: she do? She hired her son's nepotism, but since she's
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  Speaker 1: not a city employee, those rules don't apply. Each of
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  Speaker 1: her two sons, as reported by the item, estimated they
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  Speaker 1: would earn at least one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: from work between June first of twenty twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: mid August of this year. This according to subcontractor approval
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  Speaker 1: request forms that ITEAM got Channel nine, which were delayed.
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  Speaker 1: To get to the details on that, Todd Zenzer, our
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  Speaker 1: citizen watchdog, former Inspector General for the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I think it is well above what your
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  Speaker 1: average city employee earns. He's such a nice guy. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to language. Let's state it a little more straightly,
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  Speaker 1: a little more clearly, and a little more harshly. Todd.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, man, but you're just too delicate. He
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  Speaker 1: reviewed Rally's contracts and the subcontractor approved request forms. These
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  Speaker 1: forms are required under the city charter. I guess Raleigh
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  Speaker 1: her sons and other subcontractors signed the forms late January
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  Speaker 1: and February, which is interesting because apparently the forums are
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be signed before any work is done. They've
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  Speaker 1: been doing work last year. Sensor said, I wish the
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  Speaker 1: city was more aware of how their actions in this
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  Speaker 1: contract looked to the public, a public that probably isn't
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  Speaker 1: paying attention. So apparently Raleigh community activists we know that
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  Speaker 1: hired the city hired her as a consultant in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two to would advise on issues related to the
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  Speaker 1: collaborative Agreement. And again, that agreement has been a place
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  Speaker 1: for so long man. Well whatever, her role expanded to
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  Speaker 1: oversee the Government Square Community Care Initiative. We've got one
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  Speaker 1: of those which is done for the purpose of addressing
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  Speaker 1: youth violence at Government Square, the Transit Center, which happens
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  Speaker 1: after school. I guess they dump all the kids down there,
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  Speaker 1: kids from multiple different schools. I guess they don't play
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  Speaker 1: nicely together. School becomes a center of a well violent activity.
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  Speaker 1: So what do we need? We need iris Roli and
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  Speaker 1: consultants to manage the transit center, providing food, personal care
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  Speaker 1: products and the safe space for young people. Huh. And
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  Speaker 1: you do remember the FOP. They've got her on video
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  Speaker 1: harassing on duty police officers. Iris Roly did. That happened
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  Speaker 1: last August, and they asked for her to be fired.
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  Speaker 1: The Fraternal Order Police did that didn't happen. Despite the
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  Speaker 1: criticism Channeline Rights, the scope of Roley's work has continue
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  Speaker 1: to expand. She's part of the summer in SINSI Violence
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  Speaker 1: Reduction plan for the second year, offering youth curfew support.
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  Speaker 1: Call me if you know what that means, monitoring criminal
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  Speaker 1: hotspots and assisting during special events in the summer. Sensor said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that missus Rawley will have that
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  Speaker 1: contract for as long as she wants it. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a good foundation to meet you reach that conclusion considering
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  Speaker 1: how long she's been around post collaborative agreement. He followed
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  Speaker 1: up by, it really does look like a person centered
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  Speaker 1: contract and I don't think the city would do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing for any other person. He's probably right on that.
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  Speaker 1: How is it that she's the only person hands selected
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  Speaker 1: to get this contract? How is it that she could
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  Speaker 1: hold onto this role for as long as she wants it?
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  Speaker 1: According to Todd Zenzer's conclusion, it's a good question. So the
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  Speaker 1: Iteam apparently has been looking at the city's financial ties
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  Speaker 1: to Iris roll in her family since last year. In September,
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  Speaker 1: they reported that roly hied her son Rayshaw, shows criminal history.
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  Speaker 1: He has to work with young people on Government Square,
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  Speaker 1: a part time job paying four thousand, four hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: a month. I team got records showing the city spent
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  Speaker 1: more than thirteen hundred dollars on clothing for Government Square workers.
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  Speaker 1: Where do they get it, eh, clothing purchased from a
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  Speaker 1: company registered to Iris Rowley's husband. M December, Iteam reported
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  Speaker 1: Rawley got a new contract six hundred and sixty four thousand,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars signed by Sheryl Long, city manager two
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  Speaker 1: days after the election, for work that was performed months earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Retroactive sounds shady, doesn't It's Steve Gooden, our favorite lawyer
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  Speaker 1: here in the fifty five KCY Morning Show former council members.
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  Speaker 1: He said, at the end of the day, this is patronage.
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  Speaker 1: Good call Steve Gooden truth. Rowley said at an event
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  Speaker 1: she attended on May twentieth, I've not done anything wrong
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  Speaker 1: other than have the audacity to step in where other
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  Speaker 1: adults did not. We need to have balance here when
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  Speaker 1: it comes from our media partners to show the goodness.
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  Speaker 1: She's referring to the I team revealing all of this
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  Speaker 1: to you the general public, who at least is willing
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to those who read the reporting on it. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: Iris Roley said at the May twentieth event, Channel nine
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  Speaker 1: needs to take a look at itself. I won't talk
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  Speaker 1: about Paula christian Son Murphy right now because we've all
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  Speaker 1: seen it, and she's going to do another story about
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  Speaker 1: the work on Government Square and not telling the truth
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  Speaker 1: about it or what we've done, or the children's lives
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  Speaker 1: that we've changed. That information still hasn't made it out
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  Speaker 1: to the general public, swirling question marks over what T
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  Speaker 1: shirt wearing folks have actually accomplished at Government Square. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever think she's a little embarrassed that this has come
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  Speaker 1: out revealing the reality of this nepotism. The city's nepotism
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  Speaker 1: rule does not apply to Rawley again because she's an
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  Speaker 1: independent contractor, but both Steve Gooden and todds Ends are
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  Speaker 1: questioned the optics. Gooden said, she's operating as if she
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  Speaker 1: were a full time city employee. She has an office
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  Speaker 1: at City Hall. However, they've structured this call to her
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  Speaker 1: an independent contractor, in a clear effort to exempt her
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  Speaker 1: from the nepotism laws and the other ethics laws that
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  Speaker 1: the state has which would apply to full time employees.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely out of the ordinary, he said, It's
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  Speaker 1: out of the norms that have been established by City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: and it flouts the charter. Total amount of Riley's contracts
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  Speaker 1: with the city since twenty twenty two, coming into the
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  Speaker 1: total of one point two million dollars again, her most
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  Speaker 1: recent contract, signed a couple of days after the election,
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  Speaker 1: gets worse. Iris Rowley reports directly to the city Manager,
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl Long. Sharyl Long declined an interview by Channel he
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  Speaker 1: was following up on this parenthetically it team reviewed the
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  Speaker 1: waivers that the city department had submitted before finalizing Sole
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  Speaker 1: Source Professional Service contraction twenty twenty five, finding only one contractor,
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  Speaker 1: Iris Rowley, reported directly to Long's office. A singular person
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  Speaker 1: reports solely and exclusively to the city manager, with no
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  Speaker 1: other appairent accountability. Gooden said, I have never seen an
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  Speaker 1: independent contractor who can only talked or report to the
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  Speaker 1: city manager. But in an explanation point on the reality
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  Speaker 1: of that one accorded Rowley's newest contract contractor agrees that
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  Speaker 1: none of the work or services covered by this agreement
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  Speaker 1: shall be subcontractor without the prior written approval of the city,
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  Speaker 1: and must be submitted and approved before subcontractors are authorized
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  Speaker 1: to begin work. Again, this becomes a timing problem considering
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  Speaker 1: when these submissions and approvals were made, so ITAM made
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  Speaker 1: a public records request for the subcontractor for January second
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  Speaker 1: of this year. The city released them two months later,
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  Speaker 1: forms signed and dated by Rolly's subcontractors in late January,
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  Speaker 1: notably after the request for records was submitted, and into February,
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  Speaker 1: several weeks after the request and roughly three months after
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  Speaker 1: her November contract was signed. Hmmm. Todds ends Or, for
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  Speaker 1: his part, said that again points to how sloppy the
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  Speaker 1: whole contracting process seems to have been from an auditor's perspective,
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  Speaker 1: that form is very problematic. Again, delicate language. It TM
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  Speaker 1: asked the city whether the late submission of these subcontract
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  Speaker 1: reforms violated Rolly's contract. What do they say? In response?
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  Speaker 1: According to the city spokesperson Molly Lair, in this case,
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  Speaker 1: Ms Rowley did not understand that quote sub contractors close
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  Speaker 1: quote included independent contractors, and she subsequently complied once we
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  Speaker 1: brought that to her attention. U huh. The city had
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  Speaker 1: to explain the contract it entered into with Iris Rolly
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  Speaker 1: to Iris Rawley. Understanding the confusion, she said, the city
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  Speaker 1: waived strict compliance with the contract all right. Her son,
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  Speaker 1: Rayshawn Shows wrote that his estimated subcontract was ninety four
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty two dollars four Community Care and
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  Speaker 1: Summer and Sincey monitoring work. Joe, does it sound like
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  Speaker 1: a cushy job to you? What is community care? What
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  Speaker 1: is monitoring Summer and Sincy? Anyway? Anyway, that ninety four
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars plus was for work between June first and
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  Speaker 1: October thirty first of counter lev of last year, plus
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  Speaker 1: another forty four thousand dollars two monitor and Community engagement
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  Speaker 1: work between November one, twenty five and August fifteenth this year,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two hundred and eighty two dollars
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  Speaker 1: for fourteen months apart time work. Joe, you want to
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  Speaker 1: apply for that job. He's already out the door, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Her second son, listed as both JAHI Mill and our JR.
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  Speaker 1: Rawley on the subcontract of tractor forums, wrote that his
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  Speaker 1: estimated subcontract amount was ninety four, two and eighty two dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Suspiciously only a couple the same amount for her his
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  Speaker 1: brother's contract that also for community care and monitoring work,
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  Speaker 1: and then an additional thirty six grand for project manager
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  Speaker 1: work between November and twenty five in August this year.
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  Speaker 1: Total just a couple dollars different than his brother one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand, three and thirty four dollars just
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  Speaker 1: fourteen months a part time work. Anything to see here, folks, anything,
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  Speaker 1: there's more information, Just check out Channel nine and you'll
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  Speaker 1: see it at WCPO dot com. Again, props for doing some
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  Speaker 1: actually said Paula Christian slash murg Nash Murphy. Paul Murphy
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  Speaker 1: a letter thanking here for following up on this and
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  Speaker 1: doing such a good job reporting on the iris ROLLI
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  Speaker 1: and her sons as Shenanigan's Hi, Paula, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your report to me's the thank you letter he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your report tonight concerning the city's contracts
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  Speaker 1: with Iris Rolli. WCPO is one hundred percent justified in
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  Speaker 1: looking into these contracts. There should be no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: The results of your investigation clearly identify numerous significant contracting
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  Speaker 1: irregularities and discrepancies and the contracting documentation. In my view,
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  Speaker 1: those irregularities and discrepancies warrant investigation by an appropriate outside
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  Speaker 1: government office. I think he maybe referred to the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice or maybe the Attorney General. Anyway, he concludes importantly,
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  Speaker 1: your findings that the contract with miss Roy were the
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  Speaker 1: only ones where the contractor reported directly to the city
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  Speaker 1: manager is very significant on multiple levels. Accordingly, the city
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  Speaker 1: manager should then be the one to answer your questions,
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  Speaker 1: not her spokesperson. Remember, city Manager Long declined an interview
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  Speaker 1: with Channel nine and sent Molly Lair out into the
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  Speaker 1: way into the weeds. The city managers refusal to do
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  Speaker 1: so raises even more questions about the contracts, the administration
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  Speaker 1: of the contracts, and the personnel involved. Again, thank you
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  Speaker 1: and WCPO for investigating this issue. It's very important for
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  Speaker 1: the promotion of a transparent and accountable city government. It
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