On December 11, 2014, the Sandy Oaks City Council discussed hiring someone to be City Marshal.
By the law created by the City Council, in order for an item to be placed on a meeting agenda it must be submitted by no less than 2 aldermen. However, the item to “Review and consider credentials of temporary volunteer to the City Marshal position” was placed on the agenda only by Alderman Micki Ball.
Ball suggested to the Council that they accept Jesse Gutierrez as a volunteer City Marshal.
As the Council began discussing placing Gutierrez as City Marshal, City Attorney Art Martinez de Vara told the Council they had never created the position of City Marshal and to do so would require having a different meeting because the item wasn’t on the current meeting’s agenda.
Earlier in the meeting the City Council had been informed that citizens in the community were banned from accessing the location of the City Council meetings, however, they planned a new meeting in the same location anyway for December 15th to discuss and consider creating a City Marshal position.
After the meeting was finished, a Sandy Oaks News reporter approached Mayor Jim Clement to ask him questions regarding some of his actions in 2014.
Clement was already upset that the reporter had announced to the City Council that Clement had lied to News Radio WOAI and that he had given false information to voters outside of the polling location in November. Clement became angered and said he wouldn’t talk anymore, but then began to answer questions asked of him.
The questions asked of Clement included why he lied to the community about announcing a deadline to run for office, why he lied to voters, and why he lied to outside news media.
Jesse Gutierrez, the potential future City Marshal, then aggressively inserted himself between Clement and the reporter in an attempt to stifle questions.
Gutierrez also attempted to answer some of the questions asked of Clement.
When Clement was asked why CISO had not announced the deadline to run for office as they had promised on April 24, 2014, Gutierrez answered “it was in the newspaper of record.”
There was no city newspaper of record at that time.
When Clement was asked why he lied to outside news media about desiring a 0-cent tax, Clement said he had presented two different budgets at the budget hearing in September.
No one in the city’s official audio recording for the Budget Hearing discusses a proposed budget with a 0 cent tax. When Clement was asked to produce the 2nd budget he claimed to have presented Gutierrez again answered for his future boss, saying the 2nd proposed budget was “available on the city’s website.”
The only budget available online is the city’s current budget.
The City Council plans to meet on December 15th to discuss hiring Gutierrez as a volunteer marshal. Clement will be his new boss.
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