Just days after the city’s mayor announced he had hired a public relations firm, the City of Parkville is finding itself making headlines for all the wrong reasons across the region, and even across the state. In the past week, an alderman who had been hounded with questions about his residency resigned, an accounts payable clerk has also resigned, and the city administrator has served three days of paid administrative leave.
Between the Lines by Ivan Foley: Alderman Jeffrey Bay has finally resigned at Parkville. Bay, as most everybody in Parkville knew but only Bay and Parkville Mayor Gerry Richardson didn’t want to acknowledge, hasn’t really been a Parkville resident for quite some time. So what motivated him to hold on to the seat, and what motivated Richardson not to push one of his favorite aldermen for a resignation? Only those two guys can answer that. Good luck trying to get a straight answer. I posed the question to Richardson in a phone interview just minutes after hearing Bay had finally caved to growing media pressure and tendered his resignation. Richardson gave me a well-fertilized answer to the effect that he had no proof Bay no longer lived in the city.
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