The West End Kid

Lucasvile State Prison is the largest mental health facility in the State of Ohio. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/inmates/lewis.html

The Courier recently wrote an article about Dale Mallory cutting checks out of the West End Community Council Bank Account months after he was impeached. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/06/12/daily11.html?t=printable =============================== If Mallory is cutting checks and spending money all these months after he has been impeached he should face criminal charges. They have a blog you can follow these developments: http://www.impeachmallory.blogspot.com/

I have heard the same thing about Mallory's involvement in Queensgate, but I don't have a lot of the details nailed down. Something big is going down. They are talking about moving the Drop Inn Center and the Pouge Center in the news this week, and I have heard about other agencies being "asked" to leave. I wonder who is doing the asking. The CityLink effort involves relocating several social service agencies as well. CityLink is appealing their loss at the hands of the Zoning board of appeals. It looks like we are going to have a major shakeup in the social service sector downtown. Something big is going down.

If you live in the 32nd and you can vote in the primary, please vote for Eve Bolton over Dale Mallory. We just finished impeaching Dale from our community council. I think what the man has done is criminal, and he would only expand his operations at the State level. Check out the impeach mallory blog: http://impeachmallory.blogspot.com/

That is F-in hilarious.

Wow.

CityLink project heading for court By Jay Hanselman 4/7/2006 3:12:37 PM The group’s that want to build a one stop social services facility in the West End are going to appeal a zoning board ruling saying it cannot be built on Bank Street. ================================== More here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS01/604080372/1056 CityLink Center goes to court Appeal keeps West End services project alive BY DAN KLEPAL | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The case for a controversial center that would provide services for the city's most needy people in the West End will be heard in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. =============================== From WVXU: They say they understand many people are uncomfortable with the proposed CityLink Center, and are opposed to it. I like the way that reads as if CityLink is opposed to their own development. They should be. When CityLink lost the appeal of the Zoning board, they didn't know what they are going to do. You could tell they didn't really have a plan. One lawyer I spoke with talked about the hesitation and referenced how they were going to "consider their options", and she said that was proof positive that they didn't have a plan B. She was critical of CityLink lawyer Tim Burke because he had not planned for a contingency, even when the zoning law was pretty explicit that this type of facility would not be allowed. How anyone can deny that a 100,000 square foot mega social service mall is not a community service facility is beyond me. Now they have appealed at the deadline. I think this is because they have no other options. They shouldn't have bought the property without finding out if they could use it. It is going to be a costly mistake. We told them in good faith that we would appeal, but they closed on the property anyway. They should have read the code. Tim Burke should have warned them. If I was one of the big fish donors who put down my nut I would be pissed off. The West End drama never ends.

The Citylink Saga is far from over. I have heard that CityLink has had closed door meetings with media outlets over the city. They are making their case directly to the media instead of the people. Something is about to happen between now and April 13th. They are already in the process of ramping up the media push. It is tough to tell what their next move will be. They can appeal the zoning, but they will lose that as a matter of law. The Bank Street site isn't zoned for social service facilities, in fact they are expressly prohibited.

Old president disputes new West End council election BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER WEST END - A Procter & Gamble executive who is a seven-year resident of the neighborhood was elected president of the West End Community Council on Tuesday night, one month after the group ousted longtime president Dale Mallory.

The West End Drama Never Ends. Whiner Dale Mallory is angry and he wants his toy back. That guy should take it like a man: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/NEWS01/603070346/1056 Mallory sues West End council THE ENQUIRER Dale Mallory, who was removed as president of the West End Community Council by members on Feb. 21, filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Monday, claiming he was illegally removed and asking to be returned to the office.

Quim, I will try to get look up the bylaws and Constitution of the WECC and cite the specific section for you.

Damn Jimmy! You make me feel like a jerk. I am a bit vindictive I guess. But hear me out. Dale Mallory got impeached by over 75% of the vote, and then he says that it doesn't mean anything and that he is still the President. When we voted against Citylink is was almost unanimous, yet Dale Mallory has tried to claim that the vote did not count. Remember that we had to vote after Dale had already stormed out of his second consecutive meeting, and we voted without Dale present. According to Dale, we haven't been able to vote on anything since October. According to Dale, the people who come to meetings don’t “represent the community.” He claims that the people who want CityLink won’t come to meetings. What does that mean? It means that Dale Mallory has decided what is best for the community, because only he can know what the community really wants, because he is Dale Mallory. I have the inherent weakness of not being Dale Mallory, which is why I fail to see things so clearly. It doesn’t matter how we vote. Dale has his own agenda. In the November Meeting, Dale shut down the meeting before we could vote on CityLink. He shut it down without a motion after 2 and half hours. No vote, no motion, no nothing, he just walked out of the meeting. The very next meeting was December, and he started out that meeting by telling everyone that there would be no motions and no votes. CityLink catered that meeting. When people demanded a vote after what happened in November, Dale walked out again. This time, Vice President Shirley Colbert presided and we had a near unanimous vote. The January meeting came, and Dale would not release the agenda before the meeting. He said that CityLink would not be on the agenda before the meeting. He told people that we had our vote, and he wasn’t going to revisit it. But the January meeting opened up, and Dale Mallory started out with a special guest to speak to us, his lawyer Jim Carroll. Jim Carroll explained to us that our vote in December did not count. No minutes were ever read, much less approved, and Dale announced that no vote would be taken at the January meeting. For three straight meetings he wouldn’t let people vote. All the while he was claiming to the press that the members of the West End Community Council don’t represent the community. The CityLink people had a now infamous quote after the December meeting, where they said that it doesn’t matter what the community council thinks, they are going ahead with the project anyway. It appears that Dale Mallory feels the same way with his own agenda. And without our vote of opposition, without Shirley Colbert standing up for the people, we never could have challenged the zoning as a community. And that was a fight that we won. It was a fight that Dale Mallory struggled to not let us have. After those three meetings a Pastor from the West End stepped up and served Dale Mallory with a petition for his impeachment. While Dale was being impeached, he called a special community meeting at the Lincoln Center to be devoted solely to CityLink. Who got invited? Nobody from the West End Community Council. CityLink got invited though, along with hundreds of members from Crossroads Community Church. It has been well documented that they have been flooding our meetings in massive numbers. They were at the impeachment hearing the other night. And not only do they come to our meetings, Dale is apparently giving them membership cards. The same cards he has routinely withheld from us. He tries to pick and choose who can join the council, based upon their undying devotion and support for his highness. Before we went to the ballot box for his impeachment, we had a stand up vote where members stood up to be counted at our last meeting. All the people from CityLink and Crossroads stood up and tried to vote for Dale Mallory. Mark Stecher, the Executive Director of the OneCity Foundation (parent of CityLink), was standing up and yelling his support for Dale. He was even screaming “We won!” when the standing members of Crossroads outnumbered West End Community Council Residents. But when it went to ballot, Dale Mallory lost with over 75% of the WECC members voting to impeach him. So yeah, I am a bit vindictive. I am being a bit of a jerk. But honestly, what would you do? Dale Mallory plans to preside over the next meeting. He claims he is still President. He is going to come into that meeting with his thugs and an army of true believers from Crossroads Community Church, then he is going to bull rush the podium and claim that he is President and that nobody can impeach him. The Crossroads sheeple will probably give him a standing ovation. If that is allowed to happen, the City of Cincinnati should disband the West End Community Council. At that point, it wouldn’t be a community council; it would be a Dale Mallory council. I don’t care if his brother is the mayor, or if another brother is a judge. His dad is a West End legend, but that is his dad, that ain’t Dale. Dale Mallory has been impeached by a wide margin. He is no longer President. If he tries to preside he will be arrested for disrupting a public meeting. “ I hope those now in control will build consensus and keep orderly meetings. Continuing the division will only damage the neighborhood” I would hope the same thing, but it is going to be difficult to build any kind of consensus with Dale Mallory and CityLink trying to hijack our community meetings. Crossroads Church members need to stop coming to our meetings. They need to stop standing up and yelling at people and disrupting our meeting. That the executive director of Citylink (Mark Stecher) would do that is crossing a line. They aren’t part of our community, and they need to mind their own business. As for Dale, he needs to walk away and concentrate on his run for the State House.

Dale Mallory lost his shyt at that meeting once he found out he wouldn't preside. It was the politics of self destruction. It was also like watching a car wreck in slow motion. He released a tape to the media that nobody commented on. He claimed it was telephone conversations of two West End Community Council Members plotting against him. Nothing was on the tape when he played it. It was comical. And to top if off, after losing over 75% of the vote, he still thinks he is president of the WECC. The man is on drugs. I will beg and plead you all to come to the next WECC meeting to watch strong man Dale Mallory "preside" and take back what is rightfully his own. The rules don't apply to him, his last name is Mallory. It should be fun to watch the end of his political carreer. For a short time, I am waiving the 10 dollar cover charge.

As for City Council, I would have to say "WOO HOO!". I would like to thank the people who showed up to the Tuesday and/or the Wednesday Council meetings. I would like to thank the people who have written council on behalf of the opposition. A lot of neat people have come together on this. People have talked about having a bash at the Mockbee, with the proceeds going to the legal defense fund (the zoning appeal and any legal action beyond that). The Mockbee has a liquor license as well. I think it sounds like a great idea, but then again I have a drinking problem. WOO HOO!

Amen to that Max. Those aren't people, they are sheeple! That pep rally last night was comical. I don't think that Brian Tome wants to go anywhere to speak unless he knows he can pack the house with hundreds of his own people who fawn over him and slobber like pavlovian dogs. That guy has some F'in ego. What about this one: Some of that "small group" include: Cincinnati City Council West End Community Council West End Churches and Pastors Over the Rhine Chamber of Commerce CUF Neighborhood Association (Clifton Heights, University Heights, Fairmont) Brighton Business Owners Westwood Concern Dayton Street Neighborhood Association Clifton Heights Improvement Association Clifton Heights Business Association Over The Rhine Brewery District Klotter/Conroy Resident’s Association Pendleton Neighborhood Council West McMicken Improvement Association Principals of the three schools across the street from CityLink Brian Tome is lying to his own people.

"I think it is absurd to have people coming in lately to destroy the work we have done in the West End." I was trying to think of the list of accomplishments that Dale Mallory has done for the West End. Must be a long list, because I can't think of anything.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060128/NEWS01/601280375/-1/all Impeachment petition roils West End BY ALLEN HOWARD | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER WEST END[/b] - A member of the West End Community Council has filed a petition with the group's executive committee, calling for impeachment of council president Dale Mallory.

http://nickspencer.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-kill-city.html Tuesday, January 17, 2006 How to Kill a City I think Cincinnati, over the last 30 years, has run a clinic on how to kill a city. Over that time frame, we have run an almost perfect playbook on how to drive people out into suburbs or out of the region entirely. When you take a step back, and look at it in a big-picture sense, its almost awe-inspiring. You really can't do it much better. So how do you kill a city? How do you make sure an urban area becomes so inhospitable, so unattractive, that it kills development before it even begins. How do you make sure that the evacuation from your core neighborhoods is so severe it drains the area of all but those of the least means? It starts with a lack of regional cooperation. Make sure the city and county are at odds, then make sure the neighboring counties think even less of the city. Get it to a point where just being cordial with each other is considered regionalism, and showing up together for a photo-op is called a show of cooperation. Avoid any kind of regional government entity with teeth; make sure the suburbs continue to sprawl outward with new construction of homes and office parks. Don't even joke about metro government even though its worked pretty much everywhere else. Now that you're sprawling, and the nicer areas and nicer jobs keep getting farther out, cut off the city. Whatever you do, do NOT pass any kind of transit initiative. If you do a light rail campaign, make certain its badly run and unrealistic in terms of cost and construction. Cut that city off at the knees-- they could handle the sprawl if there's a connecting train, so make sure that light rail defeat is so convincing it doesn't get on another ballot for fear that supporting it would mean pissing money and time away. No, get people addicted to cars, and make them hate walking and mass transit. When they take those cars downtown, make parking them as difficult as possible, and make sure you aggressively enforce parking meters. Make it a hassle. Now, you've cut off the city from most of the new investment. But a lot of people still like cities. They like the historic texture, the authentic neighborhood business districts, the culture. So override that by making the area as terrifying as possible. Make sure all your low-income housing is concentrated, preferably as close to downtown as possible. Now that you've done that, get a bunch of social services in. This works out great: conservatives like it because they don't want the poor anywhere near them, and liberals will fall for it if you dress it up as compassion and call any other strategy 'kicking out the poor' or 'gentrification'. The concentration of poverty will have a host of negative effects: the lack of investment will diminish the tax base, and you'll see less in basic services provided. That means less police. This makes the area a perfect place to commit crimes. More crime means more people are willing to forgo the excitement of a city in favor of suburban safety. This is maybe the most effective part. Because once you concentrate this stuff, you're practically all the way there. You can keep doing it, indefinitely. You can build social services, jails, and low income housing developments over and over, and each time, just argue that this is where the need is. Just make sure you don't spread this stuff out. A region is a big place, and if you spread low income housing out across every neighborhood and jurisdiction, no one would even feel it. If you put shelters and jails in non-residential areas, they'd barely be noticed by all but those who use them. Isolated, poverty swells. It will grow and grow, until it takes over an entire city. You're almost all the way there, but cities are stubborn. They get in people's system. They are still the place most regions put their major people magnets: stadiums, convention centers, museums, arts venues, and entertainment districts. People get down there, and they say, wow, look at all there is to do down here. Now, you've already fixed this a little bit by making people feel unsafe. But the surefire way to negate this impression is to cut those people magnets off. See, cities thrive on connectivity and walkability. So NEVER stick that Baseball park in the middle of the downtown or even directly adjacent to it. Cut it off. Use roads if you can. Nothing kills pedestrian traffic like long crosswalks. Don't put it near bars, shops, and condos-- put it around a sea of parking, or office towers with nothing on the storefront level. Before you know it, you can bring 60,000 people downtown and it will still have little to no meaningful impact on the city's economy. But amazingly, there are still groups of folks who will take a chance on your city. Urban pioneers. Almost nothing is too bad for them once they see that architecture and its potential. And while you may have to deal with some small number of passionate advocates for revitalization, there are ways to diminish those numbers. Make sure you're city isn't gay-friendly. The GLBT community can work wonders for an urban area, keep them away through State bans on Gay Marriage, never get a human rights ordinance that includes them. And watch out for immigrants. They are fueling growth in cities around the country. Avoid any concentrated efforts to attract new Americans. Oh, and artists. you can get away with creating arts districts in name, but don't implement financial incentives for them or develop artist specific housing. If you do all these things, you will kill your city. Do these things, and they set off an amazing chain reaction. Before you know it you will be spending most of your time arguing about race, poverty, and crime. Most people will talk about the city the way they talk about a dying relative. Few people will go there, and when they do, they'll be in and out as fast as possible. You may look at this and say its nothing new, stuff everybody knows. And yet, we continue to do it. We are, every day, making things worse. We're expanding our jail in the middle of downtown. This one is just mind-blowing in its stupidity. It sits next to Broadway Commons, the largest undeveloped parcel of land in our downtown. We need that area to be developed into residential units and maybe some kind of entertainment. It has nearly as much potential as The Banks, and its cheaper. It could be THE big project that turns downtown around. But nobody is going to develop it with a jail right there. Would you pay 250k for a condo that looks out at the fucking Justice Center? We're going to build CityLink in the West End. Metro Government? Ha. Light Rail? Ha ha. Dead last in terms of documented foreign born population and apparently we like it that way. No artist housing developments. No Human Rights Ordinance and a State Ban on Gay Marriage. We continue to do everything and anything possible to kill this city. Its done through an odd mixture of arrogance, incompetence, and fear. Undoing all of it would be a daunting task, but even worse, there's no WILL to do it. The system as it exists right now is working for most people. And so the decline continues. City government becomes less and less meaningful, and certainly less capable of doing much of anything about it. Its a sad, sorry state of affairs for a city with this much beauty, this much history. Its sad to watch it die.

Why can't he do that now ? CityLink does not offer anything new. Maybe the guy likes living in a barricaded house. Amen. We already have these services. Does a massive expansion of them help? They like to stress the job training. Before this proposed deal, we have the Jobs Plus Employment network in OTR and the Job Corps already in the neighborhood. After this deal, we will still have the same two institutions, but no additional jobs. If you do something that can attract development you can add the jobs that people need. Once this baby is in there it is going to be there for a long time. There won't be a second chance to rethink things and make them right. A huge concentration of social services and a policy of shifting the mentally ill from hospitals to the shelters and streets has crippled our urban core. After decades of playing the same game, the "new" solution is going to be a massive expansion of more of the same. Nick Spenser had a well written article on that yesterday.

Rodger Howell of CityLink said that this facility would serve between 35,000 and 40,000 people a year. That is more people that Over The Rhine and the West End combined. From the post on the Crossroads meeting, the people at Crossroads claim that some of the major social service agencies will stay anchored in OTR and use this area as a satellite. If all that is true, this is just a massive expansion of social services in our urban core, not a consolidation. This thing is the size of a Wall Mart. We are going to get a huge boost in shelter space, on top of the shelters we have, which are only filled to 79% occupancy. XU Melanie talked about indigent dumping in LA. It doesn't just happen in LA. Sick people get discharged from area hospitals and they put them in a cab bound for OTR. I think this massive expansion is going make our urban core a magnet for the region. One or two neighborhoods simply can't shoulder the burden for an entire region. You look at the forward thinking developments across the river and wonder what the administration in Cincinnati is thinking. They have over 5 acres on this site. Think of how many people could benefit from a downtown Kroger with parking. That is what people from the West End always clamor for. I think the people on the hillsides and OTR would go there. And if people from other Kroger locations didn't want to work there, I am sure you could find some people quite willing for work already in the community. You could employ people, you could let people keep their money in the community, you could improve the tax base, and you could give thousands of people one of the services that they want.

Where is all the data to the contrary? Where is all the evidence that this institution will increase safety and security? Has a large concentration of social services been beneficial to Over The Rhine? This project is going to move a large concentration of social services and the mentally ill from Over the Rhine and locate them next to schools, homes and businesses. Are residents of the Washington Park area outraged because losing these institutions will adversely affect their safety and security? Is 3CDC mad because they are losing out on the prized $12 million dollar development that CityLink calls a "gem"? Why haven't Covington and Newport fought for this prized new development? These people are deluded if they expect any neighborhood to be happy simply by making an effort to concentrate violent psychotic people in it. I would love to see "all the data to the contrary" that they have presented. So far, that data has consisted of Mason resident Mark Stecher claiming that crime is going to go down because Jesus is coming to the neighborhood. I am down with the S.O.G. coming to town, but they should also tell us about the number of manic depressives and schizophrenics that are coming along with him. A facility of this size will most probably treat thousands of people for mental health every year, and a good portion of them will be severely mentally ill with a high risk of violent self destructive behavior. If Democracy was alive and well, then CityLink would have no chance. Everybody and their mother has lined up against it in the affected communities. The people that are for it, like the churches and the social service agencies, are all from somewhere else. Our Churches in the West End are opposed to this, and have nothing to do with it. The West End already has a comprehensive plan that includes this site. The people of the West End spent a long time on that plan, and it was approved by City Council a couple of years back. That plan does not call for a homeless mall for drug addicts, ex-cons, and the mentally ill. A company already in the West End sought to buy the site, and it has seen interest from a retail outfit. Many people that live in the surrounding neighborhoods would like to see a Kroger there. I would like to see anything that brings jobs and development instead of the mentally ill to our community. The Mason bit says it all. Some bible thumper from the burbs that is trying to save the world without regard to the law of unintended consequences. The arrogance of some people.

I don't get the racial angle. Ever since they started having problems with support they have tried to introduce a racial divide where there is none, which is certainly a healthy approach given our city's recent history. Not one black person in the West End voted in support of the CityLink center at our last community council meeting. That is some divide.

I think that Nick Spencer makes some great points about CityLink on his blog. http://nickspencer.blogspot.com/2006/01/citylink.html I have never understood why CityLink is so dead set on this one site for their homeless mall. The affected communities are unanimously opposed to this development right next to schools, playgrounds, businesses and homes. The proposed Queensgate site is less than a mile from the Bank Street location. Jim Tarbell likes to point out that we have workable sites on Spring Grove. The placement of this facility is a disaster.

CityLink must answer tough questions Laura Kleckner The proposed West End CityLink project exposes incredibly complex social issues for which there are no easy answers. Citing two years of research and a Los Angeles-based model, CityLink organizers claim to have a foundation waiting to be molded into a solution using the community's input. ========================================================== AMEN! :clap: CityLink has not only failed in the dissemination of information, many of their presentations have been intentionally misleading. The only time during the process that they have been honest with us is when they admitted that they don't care what we think anyway, and that they are going to go forward with the project no matter what.

The Vineyard Community Church has officially resigned from the CityLink board of directors. They have decided that they don't want to be a part of it, and that they will no longer fund this project. Vineyard and Crossroads are the two largest churches in the City, and they were the moneymen in the CityLink plan. I respect the Vineyard's decision to cut bait. If only Brian Tome of Crossroads could divorce himself from his gigantic ego for a second and see that locating a horde of violent psychopaths next to schools, playgrounds and homes is a bad idea..... I offer a toast to the Vineyard Community Church. They are done with CityLink. One down, one to go.