Brown did have stock in Enron....sold it for loss of about $1000.00 dollars back when he wanted Enron subsidiary AZURIX to get what would ultimately be several billion dollars worth of work...YES we know about the 1/6th interest in the real estate transactions....help us find the other 7. Also, find out what you can about "The Brown Group" registered in Lafayette LA. We can always use another SNITCH...here's our "constructed" site.

Subj: MBE PROGRAM 
Date: 1/20/02 1:22:29 PM Central Standard Time 
From:
To: housnitch1@aol.com 
Can you please check with the City of Houston Affirmative Action Department and ask them the following questions?
1. How can rich foreigners with millions of dollars in the bank come to this country and get certified as disadvantaged business enterprises?
2. How can white men overtly lie by claiming they are minorities and get certified as disadvantaged business enterprises?
3. How can large national corporations buy minority businesses and maintain their minority status?
I have numerous examples of violations in each of the above categories, but suspect that the AA Department will do nothing because they are lazy, stupid government employees who only care about collecting a paycheck.

 Actually, HouSnitch has outlined the Affirmative Action program for scrutiny. IF we are to have an M/W/DBE, and Affirmative Action and Contract Compliance then WE believe it should go buy the rules and regulations as set forth for this division, and we intend to FULLY hold those persons responsible that would break/ignore/disregard those rules and regulations, be they employed by the city, or be they a designated M/W/DBE contractor.

In December 1998, Council passed Ordinance 98-1213, which implemented an MWBE graduation program based on the Small Business Administration (SBA) Size Standards, and a program to include businesses owned by persons with disabilities in City contracting (PDBEs), and we intend to hold them to it.

Many of these guys should have been weaned a long time ago. Several have us wondering how they received certification. With all that in mind, look to see us ask the hard questions.

One of the requirements OF THE GRADUATION PROCESS is that a company is weaned after receiving $4 million in work 3 years in a row...well with Anna Russell's office having all contracts awarded here on-line, it shouldn't take us long to see who is eligible for that graduation diploma!!!!!

For a list of Contracts awarded by the City Council of the City of Houston as provided by Chapter 18 (Ethics and Financial Disclosure), CLICK HERE.

Subj: BS Department  Date: 12:27:07 PM Central Standard Time From: To: housnitch1@AOL.COM   It seems that there will be four police facilities that currently have maintenance contractors in them operating and maintaining them. These facilities are 24/7/365 day operation facilities. The BS department is supposed to operate and maintain them "in-house." Can you imagine that! The City is taking over what the private sector does professionally! What a joke! It will take a minimum of 16 maintenance employees to staff and operate these facilities and that number is not including overtime that will be required should someone decide not show up for work or go on vacation. Where are they going to get these maintenance people from and hire and train them all before the last contractor leaves in may? I thought the whole purpose of the BS department was to save and control money not spend it? How much do you think it will cost to hire these employees? The cost of maintenance contractors cannot be near as much as new City employees. All of this will take place before June 1st. Who is going to train them to operate the equipment at these facilities? I'd like to see the higher up's push the buttons in these facilities to keep the police department comfortable! Let's see them do more with less! Subj: Hey..We're Waiting................For More Info on BSD  Date:  6:33:14 PM Central Standard Time From: To: Housnitch1

Brenda!

Hope this note finds you in good spirits. I have been waiting for a new article for the week.

Looking for new news and good old news if you have it. My concern is Building Services Department. I have  a lot of friends who will work in that department and who are very unhappy. They are unable to move where they can be utilized best. They are unable to transfer unless it is somewhere where NO ONE would want to go. And since Lee Pee has been voted back in for the third term, they are riding on easy street, so they think. You hardly ever see Monique anymore at work. She pushes most of the meetings as well as assignments that she is not interested in off on Larry Baker, Deputy Director for Facilities to oversee. She works him as if he is second in charge, according to her instructions in her absence, but doesn't give him the credit and acknowledgment he really deserves in that position. He is unable to move about in a manner that a true DD (Deputy Director) would and should be able to do. She has hired another DD (Deputy Director) over Design and Construction who knows about as much as she does about being in that position. He took Trinn's old position. There were others who were much more qualified than he for that position.

Say by the Way..the announcement for a new Director of Building Services is just around the corner since this is Lee Pee's last term in office as Mayor. That should be very interesting. Two years will pass fast. Hope he gets all of his traveling done before he leaves office.

Say, did you hear the latest about the Channel 13 diet program for all departments. It seems as though Channel 13 had invited employees from all departments to participate. All responded except Building Services. After some coaching (better known as begging) from Mignette, the spokesperson for BSD, several employees on the management team joined and threatened others to join as well so as not to make BSD stick out like a sore thumb among the other departments who had a tremendous response from their fellow employees.  It goes to show you how high employee morale is in that department. There is none. 

One employee who's grandmother died recently was denied by her supervisor to use her funeral leave and instructed to use her vacation time for the time off instead. Not knowing what the Directives were, she used her vacation time as instructed but never received her available funeral leave time. The gave her $10.00, a card and a plant from the Department that was actually purchased by a fellow employee. By the time she received the plant, the leaves had wilted. What love and sympathy in her times of distress! But o sorry, she is not among the classy group of BSD, so she should appreciate getting that right?

                                           BSD=SOS

WE'VE CREATED OUT OWN EPE's...BASED ON PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AND LETTERS CONCERNING THE PLAYERS INVOLVED...HERE ARE THE SNITCHES EVALUATIONS OF THEIR SO CALLED "SUPERIORS"

These are OUR Employee Performance Evaluations of certain City of Houston Personnel:

Engineering Services
Mark Kosmoski, P.E., Assistant Director

EPE:  During our last election, this employee reached rock bottom and started to dig.

           This employee is really not so much of a has-been but more of a definite won't be.             

         A prime candidate for natural de-selection.

             Takes him two hours to watch 60 Minutes.

              If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.

               One neuron short of a synapse.

Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate Division
Showri Nandagiri, P.E., Deputy Director

EPE: WE would not allow this employee to breed.

        Works well when under constant supervision and when cornered like a rat in a trap.

        When he opens his mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.

        He would argue with a signpost.

          It is hard to believe that HE beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.

          A photographic memory but with the lens covered glued on.

Building Services Department
Monique McGilbra, Director

EPE: This woman has delusions of adequacy.

         She brings a lot of joy whenever she leaves the room.

          This employee should go far, and the sooner she starts, the better.

             She has been working with glue too much.

           Donated her brain to science before she ever used it.

               The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

Planning and Programming Division
Herbert Lum, P.E., Deputy Director

EPE:   This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.                  

        He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.

           When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.
        

         A gross ignoramus - 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
         

          He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle. 

           If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you  would get change.

           If he were any more stupid, he would have to be watered twice a week.

Public Utilities Division
Gary N. Oradat, P.E., Deputy Director

EPE:  If you see two people talking, and one looks bored, he is the other one.

        Got a full six-pack but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.

          He does not have ulcers, but he is a carrier.

           Has two brains: one is lost and the other is out looking for it.

           ANY of us would like to go hunting with him sometime.

            Gates are down, the lights are flashing but the train is not coming.

             Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, he only gargled. 

wicked, crooked, snafu of an outfit!  insurance adjusters could very well been bought off by city, state or/and department directors.  such as the number 2 man at the city health dept. whom dodged a multi million dollar investigation during whitmire administration.  keep people disabled at any cost!

Got any documents to back that up?

HouSnitch NEVER divulges sources and actually the 1st amendment didn't extend to city workers under ANY administration, not just Brown's. HouSnitch received some of that racist stuff, we informed the OIG, who promptly sent an investigator to pick them up.....they were dusted for finger prints. ALL City of Houston employees are finger printed when hired. We bet that stuff hanging in the command station was dusted too! As for Fire Chief Chris Connealy, we felt his letter was sincere and we appreciated his immediate response to a bad situation. Granted we don't all work with him, but his "appearances" were proper.

WE THINK DON HOLLINGSWORTH AND HIS "LADY OF THE EVENING" DOWN ON SOUTH MAIN IN THE LATE 80's IS AS CLOSE TO PORNO AS HOUSTON GETS, BUT THEN AGAIN WE ARE HOUSNITCH...NOT HOUSNATCH.

THE TOUGHEST DECISION:
SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY?

For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one - a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling - is technologically impaired and should no longer be allowed to live independently, or come near a computer or electronic device without direct supervision. The time has come to place that loved one into the care of an Assisted Computing Facility. 

We at Silicon Pines want to help. 

WHAT EXACTLY IS AN "ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY"? 

Sometimes referred to as "Homes for the Technologically Infirm," "Technical Invalid Care Centers," or "Homes for the Technically Challenged," Assisted Computing Facilities (ACFs) are modeled on assisted living facilities, and provide a safe, structured residential environment for those unable to handle even the most common, everyday multitasks. Most fully accredited ACFs, like Silicon Pines, are an oasis of hope and encouragement that allow residents to lead productive, technologically relevant lives without the fear and anxiety associated with actually having to understand or execute the technologies themselves. 

WHO SHOULD BE IN AN ACF? 

Sadly, technology is advancing at such a dramatic rate that many millions, of all ages, will never truly be able to understand it, putting an undue burden on those friends and family members who must explain it to them. But unless the loved one is suffering from a truly debilitating affliction, such as Reinstallzheimers, the decision to commit is entirely personal. You must ask yourself: 

"How frustrated am I that my parent/sibling/spouse is unable to open an email attachment?" 

"How much of my time should be taken up explaining how RAM is different from hard drive memory?" 

"How many times can I bear to hear my dad say, 'Hey, can I replace the motherboard with a fatherboard? Ha ha ha!'" 

To make things easier, we have prepared a list of Warning Signs which we encourage you to return to often, or, if you can't figure out how to bookmark it, print out. Also, please take a moment to read "I'm Glad I'm in Here! - A Resident's Story." 

MUST IT BE FAMILY, OR CAN I PLACE ANYONE IN AN ACF? 

Several corporations have sought permission to have certain employees, or at times entire sales departments, committed to ACFs. At present, however, individuals can be committed only by direct family or self-internment. The reason is simple: there are not nearly enough ACFs in the world to accommodate all the technologically challenged. For example, there are currently only 860,000 beds available in ACFs, but there are 29 million AOL
users. 

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? 

ACF rents range from free up to $12,500 per month. The disparity is currently a point of contention in the ACF industry. Many residents are covered through government programs such as Compucaid or Compucare, but reimbursement rates are low and only cover a portion of the fees. 

Exacerbating the situation are the HMOs (HelpDesk Maintenance Organizations), which often deny coverage, forcing residents to pay out of pocket or turn to expensive private techcare insurers such as BlueCache/BlueScreen. 

Offsetting the costs are technology companies themselves, many of which subsidize ACFs. Firms such as Microsoft, Dell, Qualcomm, and America Online will pay up to 100 percent of a resident's monthly bill, but there is a catch. ISPs, for instance, require residents to sign service contracts lasting a year or more. Microsoft, meanwhile, prohibits the installation of any competitive
software, while Priceline requires that residents buy shares of its stock, which seems onerous but saves residents on lavatory tissue. 

HOW OLD MUST I BE TO HAVE SOMEONE COMMITTED? 

Until very recently, you had to be 18 or older to legally commit a family member. However, the now famous British court case Frazier vs. Frazier and Frazier has cleared the way for minors to commit their parents. In that  case, 15-year-old Bradley Frazier of Leicester had his 37-year-old parents committed to an ACF in Bournemouth after a judge ruled Ian and Janet Frazier were a "danger to themselves and the community." According to court records, Bradley told his parents about the I LoveYou virus and warned them not to click attachments, then the next day his parents received an I LoveYou email and clicked on the attachment because, they explained, "it came from someone we know." 

WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN AN ACF?

First, make sure it's a genuine Assisted Computing Facility, and not an Assisted Living Facility. To tell the difference, observe the residents. If they look rather old and tend to openly discuss bowel movements, this is probably 'assisted living.' On the other hand, if they vary in age and say things like, "I'm supposed to figure that out? I'm not Bill F@!*ing Gates you know!," this is probably 'assisted computing.' 

Also, at a well-run ACF, residents should lead full, independent lives, and should be allowed the use of many technology devices, including telephones, electric toothbrushes, and alarm clocks. However, only a facility's Licensed Techcare Professionals (LTPs) should perform computational or technological tasks such as installing programs or saving email attachments. And LTPs should NEVER answer residents' questions because studies have shown that answering user questions inevitably makes things worse. Instead, residents should simply have things done for them, relieving them of the pressure to "learn" or "improve." 

CAN A RESIDENT EVER GET OUT? 

No. 

OK, THIS SOUNDS PROMISING. HOW CAN I LEARN MORE? 

For your enlightenment, we offer extensive information on Silicon Pines and the ACF lifestyle, which can be found by clicking one of the links in the navigation bars found at both the top and bottom of this page. But whatever you decide, keep in mind that due to demand, ACFs now have long waiting lists. WebTV & AOL users alone will take years to absorb.