2001.....A WASTE ODYSSEY

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The Maintenance and Right-of-Way Division, headed by Acting Deputy Director Douglas W. Wiersig, is responsible for the safe operating condition of city streets and bridges, drainage ditches and storm sewers, street lighting, vehicle maintenance and traffic control.

Poor Doug, he really has a problem with traffic control himself. Seems as if he just had another accident, with a City of Houston vehicle. It's what, Doug....your 3-4 in less than a year? This one wasn't his fault, but the City has policies & procedures when that happens, and after 4, we think Doug should be the first City employee (besides policemen) to be issued a bicycle. Hell, we gotta get use outta those bike lanes somehow!!!!

As ya'll know Tom Rolen left Dr. Doug in charge of this division when he left....now the Dr. is under investigation by the OIG for racial slurs & other accidents he's had.

We keep telling you Tom....you can't change anything until you get rid of all those losers....they'll screw you just like they did Jerry.

Here's a couple of examples of Dr. Doug's incompetence, Tom....Dr here promoted traffic tech IV, Jesse Jasso to project manager. The same Jesse Jasso that was arrested for DWI and had to spend a couple days in jail. A couple of months ago he didn't qualify for the position, and Human Resources didn't recommend him for the position because he didn't have the necessary degree required for the position...so Sandy Stone, nad Gary Shotz RE-ADVERTISED the position WITH OUT the degree requirement included. You see, they wanted preference given to Jasso. This position was created just for a pet. This kind of practice is what makes all of us sick Mr. Rolen. Morale is so low down here, that productivity can't go up. You left us in the hands of buffoons.

City policy on DWI says that any employee who violates this rule...MUST BE GIVEN A WRITTEN REPRIMAND, AND BE SUSPENDED FOR 40 HOURS WORK. These rules are for everyone to follow, but you don't impose these rules on Dr. Doug (who himself has a drinking problem) nor Dr. Doug's friends....what gives Mr. Rolen....why the double standard? The city policy states that ANY employee involved in a DWI, regardless of driving a City car or his own personal car shall face these penalties. WHY AREN'T HIGHER UPS HELD TO THIS STANDARD?

WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE LITTLE GUY WHO HAS TO TOE THE MARK.....WHY HAVE THE POLICY ANYWAY IF IT IS ONLY FOR US PEONS? THE GOINGS ON IN YOUR OLD DEPARTMENT ARE LIKE A DAILY SOAP OPERA MR. ROLEN. YOU'RE THE BOSS NOW...HANDLE IT!!!!!!!!

(click on that driver to see Wiersig's latest accident report)

This next one is gonna blow ya'll a way.....

Ya know how we're always having to borrow money from one fund & move it to another just to cover our expenses? (HoustonChron) Wanna see where we really lose a lot of money???

City Vehicles Babies....City Vehicles

Housnitch received the following letter:

Subj:	Re: Housnitch
Date:	12/28/00 7:45:37 PM Central Standard Time
From:
To:	Housnitch1

Dear Housnitch;

My name is ^%$(, and i regularly visit your website. I enjoy it very much and have the same philosophy as yours. I was at the Airline Market on Saturday. I saw a City of Houston Vehicle pull over into the parking lot. I saw a man with a beard & very thick glasses with a female companion wearing a long black dress & her head covered with a cloth. You could only see her eyes. They were filling up the City vehicle with boxes of apples, oranges, bananas & a few watermelons.
I was very surprised to see passengers from a City of Houston vehicle shopping at the Airline Fruit Market. Would you please find out if this was shopping for the city? I don't like to think of my tax dollars going to benefit personally an employee with the use of a City Vehicle.

I wish I had had a camera, to get a picture...but i did get the license number. Vehicle # 679-933 and a number on the driver side door was 24612. It was a white jeep.

Thanks for telling the truth!

%$#@!@ *&^%$# of Houston

Well Darlins....took a little time...but we found out who the car belongs to.....

Mohammed Zubair, one of Showri Nandagiri's pets. Wanna see exactly how much time that man spends in that City vehicle on actual CITY BUSINESS?

Click on that first car up there & ya'll will see that he had 579 miles for the month on his City of Houston Vehicle. Of those 579 miles....35 were actual city business.

Click on that second car up there & you'll see that he averaged 1.7 miles per day on City of Houston business. Looks like we could save some money right there. 1.7 miles? He could ride a bike like Doug for all the actual city business he conducts with this car. Hey wait a minute...those little scooters were real popular for Christmas this year...how about we buy some of those for these people who don't actually need a vehicle? It's time the PETS were let loose & made to fend on their own.

P W & E isn't the only dept with deadbeats driving our cars & wasting tax dollars on gas!!!.

Housnitch was doing some reading over in the City Secretary's office this week. The City keeps all the CIP projects, and the budget for the public to have access to them, there in Ms. Russell's office. Remember how this Mayor & his administrative minions told us that by hiring out the management of contracts to the outside, it would save us money? Well. P W & E's actual expenditures for FY 1999 was $98,323,830. It is projected that FYI 2001 will be $103,800,808. That's an INCREASE of $5,476,978! And we are doing LESS jobs than in 1999. Of course we did have the creation of the Building Services dept. (and we all know how much they have wasted!)

Since we're focusing on waste...let's look at Mr. Showri Nandagiri's "RECOMMENDATIONS & SUGGESTIONS " for reorganization of the Department.

On page one of "SHOWRI SAYS"...we'd like to see a REAL commitment to keeping our Contracts low. No one is negotiating on behalf of the Citizens. We like ti see that emphasized for a change. Also we'd like to see Contract COMPLIANCE enforced.

On page two of "SHOWRI SAYS" .....we don't like the creation of any more new departments. The level of bureaucracy is already too high as it is.

On page three of "SHOWRI SAYS", we're concerned about that item #3 . Implement a procedure whereby non-productive employees are indefinitely suspended without elaborate procedures, without being in violation of civil service procedures.....HMMMMMMMMMMM, our concern is....WHO WILL DECIDE THIS? SHOWRI & his minions? We think SHOWRI is a non-productive employee....except for his recent spate of contracts to Ratnala & Bahl that he has ordered Jajoo to hand out, we don't see where he himself has actually done anything. we think that Mohammed Pet up there should be the first to go, hell his gas savings alone will help move the city budget outtta the red.

Nice to see that the county gave the owner's rep contract to someone OTHER than Fred Martinez at "ATSER". Bet that hurt your credibility with the Mayor didn't it Carol? LOAO.....Ms. Alvarado needs to learn there is a new driving force in the city & that force is for CLEAN government, and clean contracts. We hear Fred is back to threatening contractors especially out at the airport. Seems he stepped on some toes out there when he told Champagne-Webber that the MAYOR'S OFFICE WANTED THEM TO GIVE A SUB CONTRACT TO ATSER. (WHO ALREADY HAS A MANAGEMENT CONTRACT OUT THERE). Snitches say Brown & Root asked Fred just who he was working for.....The City of Houston or as a contractor? DON'T YA JUST LOVE IT??????

We've had a few letters from Contractors telling us that the Mayor may FORCE Carol Alvarado to run for council. Seems he needs her big pay check to cover three people that Cheryl Dotson has brought in from DC and are being paid from other sources other than the Mayor's budget. (that's in violation to a city ordinance forbidding that last year isn't it?)

We've also been told that Campos Communications called on quite a few contractors last election season, telling them they had better not support anyone that Campos didn't, or they would never get a city contract ever again. Too many of them said they don't relish a call like that again. HMMMMMMMM, Housnitch knows Marc Campos, she finds this very hard to believe, after all, Marc & his Daddy Jesse are both too smart to do a dumb ILLEGAL thing like that. We know that kind of stuff goes on, we just can't see Marc & Jesse caught up in it.

Speaking of Cheryl Dotson, Housnitch sure hopes that with the election of GW to the presidency, we can get those nasty FBI, OIG & GAO (general accounting office) investigations finished up in DC about that $893,000 illegal contract she got while she was up there doing some consulting work.

Funny thing about that....she says she was working for her own Texas based Co. But we can't find that company on the State Controller's site. (wasn't it registered Cheryl?) Maybe GW's people will get to the bottom of it all & Housnitch won't be so worried about her having brought those other folks up here with her, to do her work at the City level. Sure hope it gets cleared up soon.

From:

To: <snitch@housnitch.com>

Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 1:30 AM

Subject: Mayor's Picture at Airport

Hello,

Imagine my surprise when returning to Houston, by way of the George Bush Airport, to see a billboard welcoming visitors to Houston with a huge color picture of Mayor Lee P. Brown. Do we really need such a sign? Did the taxpayers know how the tax dollars were wasted this way?
As an ex city of Houston employee, (who once worked at the Airport), I do not feel that we need a picture of our mayor as you exit the Airport.
What are they going to do when election time comes around? Throw a blanket
over it?

WELL DARLIN....LEE'S HANDING OUT ALL THOSE NICE FAT BLOATED INFLATED CONTRACTS OUT THERE....AND HE WANTS THOSE GUYS TO REMEMBER THAT AT ELECTION TIME. WE HEAR THAT AVIATION SET ASIDE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR ADVERTISEMENT, AND THIS IS JUST ONE WAY THE CITY HAS DECIDED TO FURTHER THE MAYOR'S AGENDA. WE ALSO HEAR THAT MUCH OF THAT MILLION WILL BE SPENT COVERING THE MAYOR'S OUT OF TOWN TRIPS....(WELL , THEY SAY HE IS A WALKING ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE CITY WHEN HE GOES OUT)... WE WANT TO KNOW WHY THE MAYOR'S PIC WAS USED....ALL OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS PHOTOS ARE THROUGHOUT THE AIRPORT WELCOMING VISITORS...AS FAR AS HOUSNITCH IS CONCERNED WE SHOULD HAVE SPENT THAT MONEY ON A GOODLOOKING ELECTED OFFICIAL!

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From:

To: snitch@housnitch.com

Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:38 PM

Subject: Can't believe the BS has lasted this long...

I've been reading HOUSNITCH since I was "unfortunately" involved with the BS Department last year. It seems as if, the BIG WIG in the Director's office will eventually get what's coming to her. She has been playing with people's lives for way too long and it's time for that to come to an end. She's only been there for over a year and look what's happened to that department. It's long over due, for a new director (one who can do the job that needed, and not with BACK-STABBING, USING and MANIPULATIVE QUALITIES they have now.) The City doesn't need that type of experience. And don't forget her right hand Witch below her, Dirden needs to be put in her place as well...who the HELL does she think she is? She is, was and will ALWAYS BE A NOBODY, pretending to be a somebody! Get over yourself and move on down the road and haunt your next town...we're all sick of seeing your pointy hat and "! crooked" nose.

Thanks for letting me vent, keep up the good job, Housnitch.

WE'RE KINDA SORTA AFRAID NOT TO LET YOU GUYS VENT....The pot over there is really beginning to boil over. Look at the following Instant Message Housnitch received regarding B&S...

%^&*%$#@ [6:08 PM]:    When I was with Monique, We were involved in stuffing baby shower invitations and many times someone was sent to the post office on company time. She also did her son Elliot's birthday (laminated passes) from the director's office. A lot more than Building Services business goes on behind those doors....a lot of just plain BS.
Housnitch1 [6:09 PM]:    damn.....and they are using city personnel & equipment to do it with....
$%#@&*^% [6:09 PM]:    I'm sure that someone could find a load of stuff, all you have to do is look. Trinh Pham is the Deputy Director for Design and Construction. Trinh is also a very good friend of Monique's. They all run together. Before, during, after work and on the weekends. I have no doubt that Trinh's wedding stuff was done at the city.... I would put money on it.
Housnitch1 [6:10 PM]:    we have an e-mail from another souce in BS that confirms that......THAT is in the OIG's office right now
Housnitch1 [6:10 PM]:    i have to call a snitch...nice chatting with you...please send along anything you else can Darlin
&^%$#@*[6:11 PM]:    Same back at you! I will look for the info. We'll talk soon!
Housnitch1 [6:11 PM]:    thank you Darlin


Subj:	bs in the bs department
Date:	1/7/01 1:49:05 PM Central Standard Time
From: To: Housnitch1@aol.com

You know, it seems to me that the running joke that is known to world as the bs department has run its course. The fact of the matter is that it is no longer a joke. There are documental incidents of incompetence and even criminal activity on the part of monique mcgilbra, cariltta dirdren, jacquely nisby, trinh pham, and just about every other senior manager in the department. If half of the things that have been spoken about in housnicth are true, then the whole bunch should be fired. It is that simple to me.
Why this mayor has refused to even address these issues leads me to believe he condones them, if for no other reason than they serve his purposes in some way. The city of Houston is in the midst of a budget crises and this department is paying salaries at levels unheard of by city standards. Every manager has a city vehicle or generous city car allowance (undocumented, for the most part). They all have city telephones, and most have city credit cards. It is widely know they use their staffs for personal gains, like birthdays, weddings, funerals, and even going to the drug store to buy tampax for them when they need it. They extend themselves to help their friends by giving them inside information on on-going city projects and future city projects. They use their vehicles on weekends, to stop at the store on the way home, to pick up their children, and even to go to clubs after hours. They routinely accept gifts from people who do business with the city (does anyone have any idea how much money andrew shattee has spent on gifts and lunches for trinh and monique since he got the 911 call building deal?!) They do these things because they think they are above the law. Mr Mayor, you must assume your responsibility by putting an end to this wholesale ripoff of city funds, this gross incompetence on a department wide scale. The time has come to admit the choice of management in this department was a mistake. The rank and file employees in this department, the ones who were working for the city when monique and her stooges came, the ones who have been segregated out of the "team" because they weren't chosen by monique, they all see what is happening, they know it is wrong, and there is nothing they can do. Too many lives are being ruined at the expense of a few.

From:

To: <SNITCH@HOUSNITCH.COM>

Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:56 AM

Subject: BS

I THINK THE WHOLE CREW OVER THERE AT THE BS
DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED! IT SICKENS ME TO SEE THE CRAP THEY GET AWAY WITH AT OUR EXPENSE. I GUESS THE ONLY REASON THE OIG HAS NEVER LOOKED INTO ANYTHING OVER THERE IS MAYBE SOME UNDER THE TABLE KICKBACKS? OH WELL AS A CITY EMPLOYEE NOTHING REALLY SEEMS TO AMAZE ME ANYMORE. THE ONLY WAY THE CITY WILL IMPROVE IS WHEN WE GET ANYONE BUT LEE PEE IN THE HOT SEAT!!!! MAYBE A NEW MAYOR WILL COME IN AND SEE ALL THE BS THAT IS GOING ON AND HAVE THE BACKBONE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE CAN ONLY DREAM!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

Subj:	BS
Date:	12/23/00 9:26:57 PM Central Standard Time
From: To: Housnitch1@aol.com

We just wanted to touch base with you on a couple of things in the BS
department, that is the bull shit department. first of all, the 911 call
center building was pitched to city council as a completed package. this is far from the truth. they're still talking elevations, structure,
improvements, appearance. seems as though trinh and ms monique were asleep at the wheel when this thing was being "planned". or is it that they were too busy kissing ass to make sure the project was approved. the fact remains clear, they don't know what they're doing. will someone, anyone, please take note!
speaking of the less than dynamic duo and their stooges. the bs department Christmas party turned into something of blow out. the gathering started at noon with a talent show following. then there was a band and the whole crowd got into the dancing spirit. folk were shocked to see ms monique and trinh going at it, bumping and grinding, even butting butts. did someone spike the punch, or maybe there was a bar in ms monique's office. the more conservative in the crowd were offended, and some even left rather than watch the "show". the party, which should have been held after hours, was so rowdy didn't end until 4!
this has been a good year for ms monique, trinh and their stooges. they've making more money than they've ever made, have city cars or big ford expeditions in ms monique's case, city cell phones, city credit cards, city secretaries, and big staffs to kiss their asses! who wouldn't have a good year!? oh, maybe the rank and file of a department who realize the whole fiasco is going to end when lee p leaves office, that's who!

WILL SOMEONE SEE IF OUR TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR THIS WHOLE SHEBANG?????

Subj:	FYI
Date:	1/2/01 11:23:48 AM Central Standard Time
From:
To:	Housnitch1

Assistant Chief Britt was just demoted. Unknown reason why. Apparently pretty abruptly though.

YES, Well he's a holdover of Tyra's, but we hear he is having anyone & everyone try to intervene on his behalf because he needs until late May to retire with full Asst Chief pension....As many lives as he & Tyra tried to ruin...we hope he doesn't get the consideration he NEVER gave those under him.