A 9:30 AM hearing will be held Monday, January 28, in Division B Judge Jimmy Teat’s Second Judicial (Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson Parishes) District courtroom in Jonesboro to hear a motion by Town of Jonesboro attorney Doug Stokes asking that some of the town’s financial records be excluded from court examination. Stokes asserts that because those records pertain to the town’s property that can’t be attached, any such records should not have to be produced.
See here the document.
The issue pertains to a $36 thousand judgement rendered in favor of the town’s former fire chief David Roberts, that said he was not properly terminated and is entitled to back pay.
In his memorandum, Stokes cites a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling – Hill v City of New Orleans – that notes “examination about property owned by the City of New Orleans is pointless because public property is exempt from seizure.”
Stokes wants items 1 through 22 in the Examination of Judgement Debtor motion to be excluded from examination.
It is notable that almost all the requested records are public documents, and as such are covered by Louisiana’s Public Records Law – LA RS 44:1.
01/27/2013 at 6:56 am |
Too bad the A-1 Mobile driven by the Mayor can not be sold!!!
Where is the high priced mule the Mayor purchased?
Rev Dill got a town auto?
Wait….let’s pay the Arcadia Town Clerk $30,000 and give her a TOJ police car to drive.
The TOJ would make a great comedy show for TV!!!!
01/27/2013 at 6:58 am |
The heavy rain last week sure the area on Gansville Road STINKING!!!
Lift station replacement if surely needed more than the Arcadia Clerk.
The EPA needs to be called…the raw sewage is everywhere!!!
01/27/2013 at 3:18 pm |
So call them. You can look up the number online.
01/28/2013 at 5:41 am |
I know the EPA was called last year and they are no help.
It is a town problem and there has been many broken promises about having the problem corrected.
The town engineer looked at it…it takes a grant and not possible due the mayor’s actions (or lack there of) regarding budget items
01/27/2013 at 8:04 am |
Yeah…”it pertains to town property” that’s not covered by INSURANCE. If you can’t afford the insurance, sell the property and pay the man.
01/27/2013 at 8:07 am |
WOW!!!!! Sounds like Jonesboro,La. has NOOOO leadership at all.Becoming not a good place to live or visit.Your people may wake up when they start using porta toliets and getting drinking water from National Guard tanker trucks.
01/27/2013 at 8:20 am |
Just what ASSETS can be included?
01/27/2013 at 1:15 pm |
Every resident of Jonesboro should ask himself or herself the question: Am I and my family better off or worse off now than we were six years ago? If the answer is “worse off,” and it almost certainly will be except for the mayor and some council members, then the next question should be, “What do I need to do to make it better?”
01/27/2013 at 1:51 pm |
When are people going to realize that Stokes is a very large part of the problem in Jonesboro. He claims to be a Godly man while he makes thousands running the Town of Jonesboro into the ground. jmo
01/27/2013 at 2:50 pm |
Is that how he paid for his $500,000 house on the lake?
01/27/2013 at 3:21 pm |
He doesn’t run anything in the ground. His job is to give legal advice to the mayor and council. And represent the town in lawsuits etc. while I think he has been incompetent on some advice he cannot force anyone to do what he says—only advise them. The mayor has chosen several times to do the opposite.
01/28/2013 at 5:42 am |
He could step up to the plate and QUIT courting the mayor!!!
01/27/2013 at 11:17 pm |
If it is public record , what is the big deal with producing them. Oh I know Leslie don’t want anyone to know where the money has gone to. The next election can’t get here soon enough.
01/28/2013 at 6:56 am |
What will it matter? It is very difficult to bring finances back from such devastation. Realistic measures will have to be taken like raising water rates, etc.
01/28/2013 at 7:52 am |
Maybe this is just a move by Dougie to bill the TOJ for more $$$…he is still getting his pay check…..
TOJ has no insurance but the TOJ attorney gets paid on time.
Anybody smell something?????
01/28/2013 at 11:11 am |
I thought it was a state law you had to have insurance on cars running on the highway.If not they should be parked until then.I guess Stupid knows the town does have to pay for judgements as he has not paid for Davids judgement.The state should have something to say about the towns insurance problem.There should be a state law forcing the town to keep insurance up to date to keep from having this judgement problem.The town should be no better than anyone else.
01/28/2013 at 10:55 am |
Seems it is better for the Jonesboro residents that Leslie use Stokes rather than the out-of-town lawyers. He probably does not charge extra as much. since it is part of his duties as Town lawyer, and if he does win this appeal, it will be more than those other guys (and gal)did.
01/28/2013 at 12:42 pm |
Let’s see, what’s that old saying “Never do anything today that can be put off until tomorrow (or later). Doesn’t Bobby Culpepper have someone who could have stood in for him or is he that important that he has to do everything himself? As for the next election, let me predict a low turn out of whites and record numbers of people of color (don’t want to use the B word or the N word) but I suppose everyone knows of what I speak. Thompson wins reelection. Anybody want to bet?
01/29/2013 at 11:33 am |
If he hasn’t been indicted by then.