Rick Davis Exposed
Last night’s meeting of the urban renewal authority (NURA) had a little excitement that was not specifically on the agenda. The Board was scheduled to approve a relocation agreement later in the agenda with one of the tenants from the shopette recently acquired by NURA at 120th Ave and Community Center Drive. During the Public Participation agenda item the owner of the business address the Board.
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Since you might not believe what happened, you can listen for yourself by clicking on the title of this posting. It will take you to the official audio of the meeting. It is well worth your time because it is so typical of the experience other new business have received at the hands of Rick Davis.
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The shop owner told the Board that he was ready to sign the relocation agreement until the building inspectors’ swat team descended on him recently. He described in full detail the unprofessional “attack” made by Rick Davis and two lackeys when they were asked to look at the new tenant space he had leased.
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According to him, they used his equipment without asking, damaged his newly painted wall and misread conditions that existed above the ceiling tile. Two wires he was subsequently written up for were lying in the area but not connected to anything. He solved the problem after receiving the formal notice of violation by picking them up and placing them in the trash.
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His presentation was so real and sincere that the Board, following an executive session, voluntarily added a $2,000 maximum award to the relocation agreement to pay for the valid violations concerning a hole in a firewall and an exit light. The Board also asked Davis’s boss and personal friend, Interim Manager Leslie Cullen, to address his decorum and actions with him.
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You should also know that the tenant space that the owner had leased was located in an existing building that had previously been occupied. The new tenant was the victim of past errors by the city staff through no fault of his own.
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Finally, during the campaign last fall I ran into other new businesses that had ugly stories to tell about Rick Davis’s lack of knowledge and extremely overbearing behavior and ego. Finally, the word is out and the new City Manager, when hired, will hopefully rectify the situation. I will make sure he knows about it. After all, Davis has not passed the skills test necessary to be certified as a building inspector even though the former City Manager gave him the title of Chief Building Inspector.
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Since you might not believe what happened, you can listen for yourself by clicking on the title of this posting. It will take you to the official audio of the meeting. It is well worth your time because it is so typical of the experience other new business have received at the hands of Rick Davis.
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The shop owner told the Board that he was ready to sign the relocation agreement until the building inspectors’ swat team descended on him recently. He described in full detail the unprofessional “attack” made by Rick Davis and two lackeys when they were asked to look at the new tenant space he had leased.
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According to him, they used his equipment without asking, damaged his newly painted wall and misread conditions that existed above the ceiling tile. Two wires he was subsequently written up for were lying in the area but not connected to anything. He solved the problem after receiving the formal notice of violation by picking them up and placing them in the trash.
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His presentation was so real and sincere that the Board, following an executive session, voluntarily added a $2,000 maximum award to the relocation agreement to pay for the valid violations concerning a hole in a firewall and an exit light. The Board also asked Davis’s boss and personal friend, Interim Manager Leslie Cullen, to address his decorum and actions with him.
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You should also know that the tenant space that the owner had leased was located in an existing building that had previously been occupied. The new tenant was the victim of past errors by the city staff through no fault of his own.
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Finally, during the campaign last fall I ran into other new businesses that had ugly stories to tell about Rick Davis’s lack of knowledge and extremely overbearing behavior and ego. Finally, the word is out and the new City Manager, when hired, will hopefully rectify the situation. I will make sure he knows about it. After all, Davis has not passed the skills test necessary to be certified as a building inspector even though the former City Manager gave him the title of Chief Building Inspector.
posted by Gene Wieneke at
8:47 AM
1 Comments:
Thank goodness for Gene -our tireless moral watchdog. Thanks for exposing Rick Davis's "overbearing behavior and ego." And -gasp! - the fact that he's a personal friend (allegedly) of Leslie Cullen!
Advice to Rick: Make friends with Gene and then commit minor infractions like harassment, domestic violence, criminal tampering and egging cars and then Gene won't have to get on your case!
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