http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : City Manager : City Manager Retires Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:53:45 +0000 Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:26:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5586 http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40706&title=city-manager-retires#40706 Author: Justsayin
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 29 2013 at 9:26am

Vet,are you insinuating that Judy G. Did not do a good job? If I catch your drift I would say you are... Lol Mulligan twins next!]]> Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40706&title=city-manager-retires#40706 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40705&title=city-manager-retires#40705 Author: VietVet
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 29 2013 at 7:08am

Sunday's Journal story that should ruin the holiday spirit.....

City, township leaders offered new perks in 2014 contracts

BUTLER COUNTY — Taxpayers in Butler County will spend vastly different amounts on salaries, bonuses and perks for city managers or township administrators next year, a Journal-News analysis reveals.
Some city managers and township administrators have inked new contracts that ask taxpayers to compensate their service with bonuses or retirement benefits in coming years.
The Journal-News examined the most recent contracts of the managers who run the cities of Hamilton, Fairfield and Middletown as well as the administrators who oversee Liberty and West Chester townships. Those cities and townships represent the local governments with the biggest populations and budgets in Butler County.
City and township leaders argue bonuses and benefits, such as monthly car allowances or tuition reimbursement, keep highly-qualified candidates in charge...............

Middletown City Manager Judy Gilleland, who will retire in June, also receives smaller perks in her contract. Taxpayers pay Gilleland $125,000 annually, give her a $425 monthly car allowance and put an extra two percent of her salary into a deferred compensation account. When a nationwide search for a new city manager begins next year, Mayor Larry Mulligan said officials will closely examine what type of contract perks to offer the next candidate.
“We’re getting good value for our dollar,” Mulligan said of Gilleland’s contract. “As we move forward, we’re probably going to be engaging an outside search firm, part of that will be looking at salary packages. We’ll evaluate what we can afford.”

WELL MR. MULLIGAN, THERE ARE SOME IN THIS CITY WHO WILL DISAGREE WITH YOU AS TO WHETHER THIS CITY IS GETTING "GOOD VALUE FOR OUR DOLLAR" OR NOT. A $425/MONTH CAR ALLOWANCE? SEEMS A TAD BIT HIGH DOESN'T IT? LET HER PAY FOR THE DAM CAR OUT OF HER $125,000 SALARY WE, THE TAXPAYER ARE PAYING FOR HER TO SCREW UP THIS TOWN. MIGHT WANT TO TELL HER SHE CAN PAD HER "COMPENSATION" ACCOUNT FROM HER OWN PAYCHECK TOO. THESE PUBLIC POSITIONS SURE ARE SET UP NICE AREN'T THEY. THEY ALL HAVE YOU FOOLED INTO BELIEVING THAT YOU NEED TO GIVE AWAY THE STORE TO RETAIN THEIR SERVICES. NO ONE IS AS VALUABLE AS THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE. MAJOR EGOS IN PLAY HERE. SOME MAY BE WORTH THE EXTRAS, MOST ARE NOT. GILLELAND WON'T MAKE A DECISION ON HER OWN AND WHEN SHE DOES, IT'S NOT THE RIGHT ONE FOR THE OVERALL GOOD OF THE CITY. SHE HAS BEEN A FAILURE BUD. FAILED TO HELP LURE DECENT PAYING JOBS TO THE CITY. FAILED TO PROTECT THE ONCE PROUD IMAGE OF THE CITY. FAILED TO REPLACE ALL THAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY HER REGIME. FAILED TO BRING IN NEW BUSINESS THAT IS RELEVANT TO OUR DEMOGRAPHICS. FAILED TO PROTECT THE ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES WE DID HAVE. FAILED TO USE TAXPAYER MONEY RESPONSIBLY WITH CITY MONEY HANDOUTS TO SELECTED PEOPLE. FAILED TO DEVELOP OTHER AREAS OF TOWN BY HER DOWNTOWN THEME CONCENTRATION. FAILED TO MAINTAIN THE SAFETY ASPECT OF OUR CITY WITH BUDGET CUTS COMING FOR POLICE AND FIRE. FAILED TO PROJECT THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF BRINGING OVERWHELMING NUMBERS OF SECTION 8 TO TOWN. FAILED TO PLACE A HIGH PRIORITY ON CONTROLLING THE RAMPANT HEROIN INTRODUCTION HERE.......MULLIGAN, EXACTLY WHAT HAS THIS WOMAN DONE FOR YOU TO THINK WE RECEIVED A "GOOD VALUE" FOR HER SERVICES? GET HER OFF THE PAYROLL AND GET SOMEONE WITH SOME DAM COMPETENCE IN HERE. IT'S A SHAME SHE WILL COLLECT A DIME FROM RETIREMENT BASED ON HER PERFORMANCE. YOU SURE DO SET THE BAR LOW WHEN YOU PRAISE THIS WOMAN. COUNCIL, FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, STOP BEING HER FOOL. MERCY!]]> Sun, 29 Dec 2013 07:08:02 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40705&title=city-manager-retires#40705 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40699&title=city-manager-retires#40699 Author: over the hill
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 24 2013 at 2:46pm

Well let them hire her anything to keep her out of city employee,maybe they could send her to the Cincinnati campus. Anything to get her out of town!]]> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:46:33 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40699&title=city-manager-retires#40699 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40698&title=city-manager-retires#40698 Author: VietVet
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 24 2013 at 8:45am

Justsayin wrote: I hear that she is going to work for Cincinnati State.

What? Cincinnati State may employ her, given her track record running this city? Do they not see what we all see when discussing her accomplishments and how she and her followers have decimated this city over time?

Cincinnati State is struggling downtown and has already lowered their first projection numbers to a fraction of the original student population. Doesn't look like they will reach their student signup goals in the five years they have set for a timeline. The projected impact from the college, as to foot traffic downtown, has not happened. The "this will be a success" rhetoric has stopped in the paper. So has the talk from the city as to how CS will increase activity downtown also. Will Gilleland help or will she be the failure she was as a city manager?

Is this a little reward for all she has given them to set up shop? And what would her new title be at the college....Director of on-line classes? Is she qualified for the academic field?

Didn't CS give Thatcher's assistant Bober a position? Was this also a little something something for the Thatcher buildings deal? Was Bober qualified for the academic field? Was there a position created just for her after Thatcher passed away? Dunno.

Please Gilleland, just leave town after retiring. You've done enough damage. ]]> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 08:45:56 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40698&title=city-manager-retires#40698 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40697&title=city-manager-retires#40697 Author: Perplexed
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 23 2013 at 11:11pm

Gilleland & Adkins, not to be confused as a popular rock band....

Instead, the they are the Mis-Creators of Greenspace Wasteland....

No negative reflections upon "The Who" and their song Teenage Wasteland.]]> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:11:47 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40697&title=city-manager-retires#40697 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40696&title=city-manager-retires#40696 Author: Justsayin
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 23 2013 at 6:52pm

I hear that she is going to work for Cincinnati State. ]]> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40696&title=city-manager-retires#40696 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40690&title=city-manager-retires#40690 Author: over the hill
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 22 2013 at 9:15pm

Well what goes around comes around.]]> Sun, 22 Dec 2013 21:15:59 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40690&title=city-manager-retires#40690 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40689&title=city-manager-retires#40689 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 22 2013 at 6:47pm

over the hill wrote: ... It would be nice if she just sold her house and moved out of town. ...

       

That's a good one!!!  Just let her TRY to sell her house!!!  Then she'll find out why more of us haven't moved out of this town!!!]]> Sun, 22 Dec 2013 18:47:16 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40689&title=city-manager-retires#40689 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40687&title=city-manager-retires#40687 Author: over the hill
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 22 2013 at 11:25am

She says she will stay in town to do volunteer work which should be an interesting adjustment for her since she is used to giving orders and having them followed without question. It would be nice if she just sold her house and moved out of town. It seems she would be much happier because she certainly isn't happy now that's obvious.IMO]]> Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:25:24 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40687&title=city-manager-retires#40687 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40683&title=city-manager-retires#40683 Author: Justsayin
Subject: 5586
Posted: Dec 22 2013 at 8:56am

Judy has been nothing but a wrecking ball on the city of Middletown. The news of her depature is a wonderful Christmas gift! She has no idea how to run a city. Nothing but a visionless bureaucrat. Good riddance!]]> Sun, 22 Dec 2013 08:56:22 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5586&PID=40683&title=city-manager-retires#40683