to save Aeiramique Glass’s job!
Well this takes the cake! The Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB) wants city taxpayers to pay up to $40,000 to hire its own attorney to fight alders who want to fire interim Independent Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass.
Yeah, it’s the City of Madison v the City of Madison. Dickens’ Jarndyce v Jarndyce.
The resolution was written by a private citizen — a smart guy named Alex Saloutos. He’s a pal of the independent monitor’s number cruncher, Greg Gelembiuk. The PCOB endorsed the thing (3½ pages long) just last Friday 10-16-26. Except that it’s still not in its final form.
“You do not have authority to hire counsel and you don’t have the money to hire counsel so I drafted the resolution to see if we could solve this problem,” Saloutos told the PCOB. “I don’t know if it’s going to fly but you’ve got to ask.”
“We have a black woman move to Madison, told to assimilate … There is one black woman who is being assaulted by 7 MPD officers. … The city is freaking out that we have a strong black woman in leadership coming up against the establishment and the establishment’s knee-jerk reaction is to pick a red herring of a hiring process.” — Oversight Board member Helyn Luisi-Mills (Madison-area Urban Ministry)
Will it fly? Unlikely!
Most likely, Alds. Carmella Glenn and Julia Matthews would sponsor the request for the Oversight Board’s own lawyer. The alders were the only two (out of 20) to object at the 10-06-26 meeting to the introduction of Ald. Will Ochowicz’ motion to fire Glass.
The agenda for Tuesday’s meeting is out already. The $40,000 is not on that agenda. The council would need a two-thirds vote to suspend the rules in order to vote on it then. If there were a vote, it would require three-quarters of the Council (15 votes) in support. Conceivably, it could be offered as an amendment to the main motion but whether that would be germane is questionable. And eight alders are sponsors of the motion to fire the monitor. (Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The “Register to Speak” form asks for the agenda item; it is 79 95140.)
One of the sponsors of the firing motion, Ald. Figueroa Cole, noted that the Oversight Board “is in it for the long haul.” Funding its own attorney would give the PCOB the ability to “retroactively respond,” she warned.
→ See “Alders make case for firing Meeka Glass”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: We’re guessing that alders vote to fire the Independent Monitor, that the $40,000 request gets deferred until a later meeting, at which time alders will vote it down. But here’s the larger point: can this whole exercise in second-guessing Madison’s supposedly racist police …
23 responses to “Police monitor oversight board wants $40,000 to sue the City of Madison”
DEFUND THE PCOB
When one member gets a misdemeanor for obstructing ann officer and the one mentioned talks aloud about a drive along at a bar, it doesn’t seem like “oversight” is what is happening.
It’s budget time at the City. Now would be a good time to not fund the PCOB and the IPM. By not funding them they could get rid of them without really looking like they did. The interim police monitor was suppose to look for a new person for the job but has only promoted herself. This should be enough to terminate her employment. Giving more money to the PCOB to sue the City who created it seems ridicules.
It is definitely time for Meeka the Aromatic to go bye-bye.
Leftist thugs are torching Paris and the Madison City Council has become a Dickensian nightmare. After Glass is fired, let’s hope fantasies of burning down Madison have exited that fetid little brain of hers.
If she’s fired will this be 2020 all over again?
No. The most that will happen is Bobby Sands continues his hunger strike and gets down to a BMI below the “obese” zone.
One Eye: Huh? I Googled Bobby Sands and learned he was a member of the Irish Republican Army who died in a Northern Ireland prison circa 1981 during his hunger strike. Sad, but I fail to see what this has to do with the topic at hand.
It’s a (tongue in cheek) reference to Gregory Gelembiuk’s hunger strike. From his guest column in today’s Cap Times:
“I am engaging in a Satyagraha fast (essentially, a hunger strike) in protest of the impending Madison City Council action against Independent Monitor Aeiramique “Meeka” Glass and the Office of the Independent Monitor.”
He goes on to reference Gandhi. He’s no Gandhi and no Bobby Sands. He’s just a fat tub of goo on a diet.
Thanks, One Eye! I’ll be reading Gelembiuk’s guest column very soon.
2020 will happen again if the DA decides not to prosecute the cop who took out the petty career criminal on Willy Street.
Eugene Parks 2.0…
Wow, that’s a name from the past.
A “smart guy”? Shucks, Dave. Now let me earn it.
Your readers got the title and the price tag, same picture Ald. Yannette Figueroa Cole posted on her blog. The answers to your headline and subhead are in the parts you left out. Here’s the whole thing: https://tinyurl.com/PCOBINDCOUNSEL
Sue the City? The WHEREAS clauses say the point is to settle who fires the interim Monitor “with legal advice rather than in court.” City Attorney Michael Haas says the Council can. PCOB members say only the PCOB can. MGO 5.19 and 5.20? Not one word about interim appointments!
Save Aeiramique Glass’s job? Page 3: the lawyer works for the PCOB and “does not represent the Independent Monitor.” Not a peep about her performance.
City of Madison v City of Madison? Yeah, that case has been on the docket since 1980! That’s how long the Police and Fire Commission has had its own outside counsel, at $23,500 to $41,000 a year from 2021 through 2023. (It’s in the fiscal note you posted!) In April, the Board of Public Works got a Dane County lawyer because Haas’s office had advised other City officials. Same deal here: Haas’s office has advised the Council on 95140.
You know how Jarndyce v Jarndyce ended, Dave. The lawyers’ fees ate the whole estate! Forty grand for legal advice now is cheap insurance.
Saloutos’s Bottom Line: Will it fly? It takes 15 alders. Tough sledding! But a straight answer beats a court fight.
Are you the realtor who throws big parties?
only in Mad town could all of this be happening, what a city.
I am watching the Council meeting on YouTube. I think the odds are that the Council weasels out and votes against firing Glass Why? Because that is what prog’s do. They have no backbone!
They have 140 registered to speak at the council meeting. I like a good train wreck!
Very good David! 3 minutes of truth telling! I hope you were wearing your mask. LOL!
High Potency weed was strong with commenter Joe Weinberg. He claiming the encampment on Willy St. was beautiful!
A Twelve year old wearing a shirt with Myrtle Beach, SC monogramed on it was allowed to excoriate the council! Then followed by the purple masked Harpy!
Well she’s gone. Caught the vote this morning on YouTube. The Madison riff raff was out in force, just a bunch of f’ing children. I hope this teaches the council to address problems like this while they’re still small.
Greg G. in the back looks like he’s been sneaking in some Little Debbies.
I guess it’s moving day and lawyer up day for Ms. Glass. I would say if your alderman voted aye you should send them a note thanking them for the courage to get rid of her.