Stock photo, missing computer in North Minneapolis, ho hum,blog post by John HoffIn a development which sounds mysteriously similar to a controversy which happened in the Jordan Neighborhood, click here for one sample story, a reliable source reports secondhand information that computers are missing at the office of NRRC (Northside Residents Redevelopment Council) and office records have been shredded. This incident reportedly happened some time earlier this week. This information is unconfirmed but solid enough by blogosphere standards for publication with the aforementioned caveat included. Johnny Northside Dot Com seeks more information, photos, commentary from anybody in the know and has avoided the publication of any name(s) reportedly associated with this allege incident until and unless more information comes forward, either to this blog or via other media.
NRRC (pronounced like "NERK") is an umbrella-like neighborhood uber-organization which...
...a few years ago, had swallowed up some smaller neighborhood organizations and/or brought those organizations under its influence...specifically, Near North and Willard Hay. However, in recent years the organization had struggled to survive, as documented in this 2007 City Pages article, click here. It sure seems like there was a whole lot of money flowing through NRRC, and not much to show for it.
This recent incident, if true, may be the swan song of an organization which has existed in some form or another since 1968 but, in all likelihood, has been bypassed by more successful, well-managed, and forward-thinking forces of revitalization.
Let me take this opportunity to urge our neighborhood orgs to step into the electronic information age and get your offices networked on a web-based server which can not be physically lifted and carried away. Or easily erased.
ReplyDeleteThis is messed up.
ReplyDeleteBut not surprising.
Excellent point Megan. It's critical our neighborhood organizations take further steps to protect records and assets.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if it hadn't been decided to not even try to investigate Jerry Moore's crimes, the NRRC scam artists wouldn't have felt emboldened to replicate them down to the very last detail. The message the city has put out on the street is "please feel free to rape and pillage Northside neighborhoods--you will never, ever in a million years be investigated." And now we are reaping the rewards of that approach.
ReplyDeleteAnd to think that right before Jerry Moore was fired from JACC for punching, slapping and pushing people, he was strongly advocating moving the JACC office into the NRRC office. Matter of fact he was advocating to ditch out on the lease with Ackerburg group. At that point in time Jerry had mismanged the finances so bad that the organization wasn't going to be able to afford the rent at the Ackerburg owned house/office.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.
Perhaps he felt the lease wasn't valid. You cannot rent a property that is not zoned for rental. You also cannot legally hold a business in a place not handicap accessable. Given that Ackerberg was not eligible to rent the property the lease was not valid. Therefor your allegation that he suggest you ditch out is not true as there is no legal contract to ditch.
ReplyDeleteThe NRRC board of directors has been allowing the staff to rip off the neighborhood for years. Even otherwise decent people like Ray Dehn refused to speak out when the staff behaved in blatantly corrupt ways, like refusing to show NRRC's financial records to NRP. The board always backed up Sherrie Pugh's position that "they're just the taxpayers and the residents we're ripping off--who are they to dare to ask questions?" There's never been even a single NRRC board member who wasn't totally dedicated to covering up for NRRC's thievery.
ReplyDeleteBack to the sugject...Didn't NRRC move into the 1315 Penn NorthPoint Inc. building? If the computers were stolen from their new location there's no telling which one of the Poverty Pimps from NP Inc. did it! If they were stolen from NRRC's old location, why were they left there SO long? Might be something to check into!?!
ReplyDeleteWow, what a discussion. Please, tell me MORE.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in regard to the zoning at the Ackerberg property, clearly there WAS a contract and, it appears, there still IS a contract.
Saying "there was no zoning, so there was no contract" drastically and incorrectly oversimplifies the situation just like the statement you can't have a business in a place that is not handicap accessible.
No, clearly you can. Happens all the time.
Who is the person so obsessed with that handicapped accessible thing at the JACC house? I only know one person who is totally on that kick, and it's Pete The Pedophile.
Jerry Moore was the one who wanted to move into that house, so it's his fault it wasn't zoned for an office. And that never became an issue or a problem until after the old majority was finally done with all their losing court battles. No, Jerry was advocating to ditch the lease and move in with Sherrie at NRRC because there was no money left to pay the rent, nevermind the fact that at that point in time (Dec 08) he hadn't paid the rent in several months!
ReplyDeleteAnd someone is now saying that Sherrie Pugh was refusing to disclose the financial reports??? Jeez, why does this all feel like de ja vu??? *good grief*
Sherrie Pugh wow I can't believe that!
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteAs a law student you should know that if a contract is not for a service that is legal it is then un-enforcable and basically null. I can't make a contract for a shipment of cocaine any more than I can hold a tenant to a lease on a property not legal to be rented.
I don't buy the original assertion that there was anything wrong with the zoning vis-a-vis the house being used by JACC. And don't even compare this to cocaine. That's just (to use a legal term of art) STOOPID.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteGlad you are back and thanks for the great dialogue. However I defend low income tenants from slumlords without rental licenses all the time. I invalidate their lease based on the fact that the contract was on a property not legal to rent.
Here are the requirements for a contract to be valid. Legal 101.
Parts of a Legal Contract:
A contract legally binds two or more parties in an agreement to perform specified acts. In order for a contract to be enforceable, it must contain three elements--offer and acceptance, legal intent and consideration. In addition, the parties to the contract must be legally able to enter into negations. A contract can be between two or more private individuals or between an individual and a company or a corporation.
What?? Allegations of incompetence and corruption in a North side neighborhood association? How can this be?
ReplyDeleteI'll withhold judgement until I see what Insight News has to say about it!
Insight News! HAHAHAHA! Have they reported that Don Samuels was re-elected yet?
ReplyDelete"...has been bypassed by more successful, well-managed, and forward-thinking forces of revitalization..."
ReplyDeleteDo you have names, addresses and websites? Without impugning whatever good work NRRC has done, I'd say Near North could really benefit from a more visible, vibrant neighborhood group. Maybe there are a bunch and I just haven't seen them.
OMG! This is such a shocking piece of news.
ReplyDeleteHow can anyone associated with NRRC take themselves seriously?