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COA Board Meeting today is going Swimmingly
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:21 pm
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Chris Nakamoto WBRZ @ChrisNakamoto
Meanwhile, fired @SouthernU_BR law professor Dorothy Jackson is here still sitting on the EBR COA board making decisions. Jackson was terminated after she drafted a questionable will for an EBR COA client. She’s wearing brown. @WBRZ
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Chris Nakamoto WBRZ @ChrisNakamoto
I said, “good afternoon” to Tasha Clark Amar when I walked in. She did not speak. @WBRZ #crickets
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Chris Nakamoto WBRZ @ChrisNakamoto
Covering EBR Council on Aging meeting. Many here are not happy to see us following last night’s #InvestigativeUnit report. Increase in pay scale just approved by Board. First step at giving others pay raises. @WBRZ
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:22 pm to Pico de Gallo
Ah the COA....where Ethics and Honesty do not apply.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:23 pm to Pico de Gallo
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Then a meeting attendee who describes herself as a senior accuses @ChrisNakamoto of reporting "false information." He asks what was wrong about his reporting, and COA board members say they can't get into discussion during public commentAndrea Gallo added,
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#BatonRouge Council on Aging meeting off to an interesting start. Councilwoman Barbara Freiberg says she's concerned about recent reports of pay raises for certain COA employees. "I did not believe people in higher level positions were going to receive those types of increases"
12:14 PM - 20 Apr 2018
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:23 pm to Pico de Gallo
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Swimming
somehow I don't think this is ever on the agenda
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:24 pm to Pico de Gallo
Can't quite tell from this angle. Is that a New Iberia haircut?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:25 pm to Pico de Gallo
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I said, “good afternoon” to Tasha Clark Amar when I walked in. She did not speak. @WBRZ #crickets
He should have said Good Aftah-noon...good aftah-noooon....good aftah-noooon
This post was edited on 4/20/18 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:26 pm to Pico de Gallo
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Councilwoman Barbara Freiberg says she's concerned about recent reports of pay raises for certain COA employees. "I did not believe people in higher level positions were going to receive those types of increases"
C'mon son.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:26 pm to Pico de Gallo
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COA Board Meeting today
People still wonder why St. George will happen?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:27 pm to BugAC
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People still wonder why St. George will happen?
The entire parish is paying for this tax.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:27 pm to BugAC
Corruption and stupidity usually yield great results.
This post was edited on 4/20/18 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:28 pm to Pico de Gallo
Someone kicked off the board is still sitting with the board and making decisions?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
Frieberg is on my shite list for flipping her vote on the COA millage.
And now she’s displays either: naïveté in thinking this would go any other direction than benefitting the higher ups or she is playing to her constituents like me and putting on a two face. Either way, she sucks
And now she’s displays either: naïveté in thinking this would go any other direction than benefitting the higher ups or she is playing to her constituents like me and putting on a two face. Either way, she sucks
This post was edited on 4/20/18 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:29 pm to Pico de Gallo
It just amazes me how much they keep getting away with. How long till we can revote to repeal the tax?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:29 pm to Pico de Gallo
I like how theyre just rubbing it in everyone's faces now
Oh frick this lady is now having second thoughts
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Councilwoman Barbara Freiberg says she's concerned about recent reports of pay raises for certain COA employees. "I did not believe people in higher level positions were going to receive those types of increases"
12:14 PM - 20 Apr 2018
Oh frick this lady is now having second thoughts
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:30 pm to Ed Osteen
I think she was just technically fired from the school
Her people on the board arent gonna do that shite
Her people on the board arent gonna do that shite
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:30 pm to Ed Osteen
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Someone kicked off the board is still sitting with the board and making decisions?
She was fired from Southern. I don't think it's possible to get kicked off the COA board.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:31 pm to Deactived
Then there's this LINK
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An employee who is tied to a questionable will that caused community outrage at the East Baton Rouge Parish Council on Aging received a $20,000 pay bump in January when voter-approved tax increases took effect.
The WBRZ Investigative Unit obtained that information through a public records request.
Trudy Bihm was the Executive Assistant to Tasha Clark Amar last year. In January, she was promoted to Special Assistant to Tasha Clark Amar/Special Programs and Projects Coordinator. That change in title came with a big change in pay, from $48,000 to $68,000.
We first encountered Bihm when she tried to block our cameras last year when we questioned the Director of the East Baton Rouge Parish Council on Aging, Tasha Clark Amar, about Helen Plummer's questionable will. Bihm was listed as the "Alternate Executrix" in the event that something happened to Executrix Tasha Clark Amar. Helen Plummer's will would have benefitted Clark Amar to the tune of $120,000. But, she backed off when it was exposed. Clark Amar sued the Plummer family for defamation after the Investigative Unit aired stories about what happened.
"This is her payback," Robert Garrity said referring to Bihm's raise. "This is her reward for being a loyal soldier."
Garrity is one of the attorneys representing the Plummer family in the ongoing litigation. He said the public should be outraged by this.
"This is blatant theft of public funds," Garrity said. "This is the reason why our state is in financial trouble and the reason why the citizens of the state have said we've had enough. You don't get any more tax money because all you're doing is wasting it."
East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Councilman Buddy Amoroso has long been a critic of the Council on Aging. He said the increase Bihm received is a slap in the face to City-Parish workers.
"There are so many people in the city that need raises, and when you see someone in the public sector getting a $20,000 raise, it makes you scratch your head and wonder what was going on," Amoroso said.
Last year, Amoroso called for Clark Amar to step down.
"I did go on the record and ask that the executive director needed to resign, and I still hold the same point," Amoroso said. "What happened with the Plummer will was despicable."
The calls for Clark Amar to go come after Southern University terminated Professor Dorothy Jackson. Jackson wrote the will at Southern's Elder Law Clinic. Jackson is appealing her termination and still sits on the East Baton Rouge Parish Council on Aging Board.
Tasha Clark Amar turned down our requests for an on-camera interview. However, in a written statement she said, "The organizational chart was restructured with newly created positions as well as additional duties assigned to employees and approved by the board of directors. No employee was afforded an undeserving pay increase."
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:31 pm to Deactived
Ah gotcha, I don’t really keep up with these retards so it was a bit confusing
Posted on 4/20/18 at 1:33 pm to TulaneUVA
As long as the Council on Aging is receiving this absurd millage, as long as the current COA board is in place, and as long as DyTasha Clark-Amar is associated with the COA I will not vote for a single property tax renewal or any new property taxes in EBR. I don't care what it is. The entire COA fiasco clearly shows that the Metro Council and City-Parish leadership can not be trusted and they're already getting way too much.
Also, reminder to everyone to vote for whomever runs against Frieberg.
Also, reminder to everyone to vote for whomever runs against Frieberg.
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