Da Magpie yip yaps incessantly at town and environmental meetings too causing a run-on earplugs Cape wide.
The Tribal Council meeting was pretty standard until he started…Da Magpie. Once again David Weeden, heretofore referred to Da Magpie began battering the efforts to get Tribal homelessness under control. We have 60 Tribal members who need emergency housing. Del Sol will be full capacity in a matter of weeks and the incremental rooms and apartments openings very soon. Meanwhile Robin Sweeting had drafted various application forms to jump start the eligibility process. The staff needs to start moving people into the system so they can get housing. Da Magpie went on picking apart the application forms as the Council members and Robin responded with obvious answers to foolish, unnecessary questions. This continued for a half an hour. Once again Da Magpie’s need for attention was more important than getting at our homeless problem. One Council member said, ” He was all over the place. I was confused and never figured out where he was going.”
This is a pattern with Magpie. He’s determined to upend important projects that happen to be initiatives of Vice Chairman Carlton Hendricks, Jr. You may recall a few months ago he demanded that Hendricks hire an architect to assess a dilapidated building (at the farm) to determine it’s historic relevance to the Tribe. Prior to his going off about “protocol” and checking in with him as the Historic Preservation officer. Ahem. Well, the VC said his research did not find the building on the state or federal historic registers. So, because Magpie couldn’t prove otherwise, he insisted on the architect. That will cost us $4k that we don’t have and delay the fish market another two months. The man’s ego is enormous.
He has no shame. Instead of re-upping his Historic Preservation grant to properly pay his $70k salary, (takes it from ARPA federal funds) he props himself on to the board of the $9.1 million broadband grant. Yes indeed.
Jordan’s a credentialed IT guy well qualified to serve. It’s a lonely job but somebody’s got to do it.
He will join Barbara Jonas, Ellen Sharp, Bobby Foster, and his partner’s son Jordan Kelliinui. It’s a regular Frybal Council. Easily the most qualified, Keliinui has a Masters in Cyber Security. This huge grant will serve 130 tribal households, businesses and a number of other cyber deserts. The thing to keep an eye on is the Indirect Costs. Yesssss.
The IDC are things like salaries and other administrative expenses not connected to the actual installation, product and so on. IDC gets pretty funky. It can reach $4.368m. One person on this board who will remain nameless almost sent the Tribe into a tailspin last year because they weren’t properly drawing down grant money causing huge problems with revenue streams and bill pay. That was one of those things we didn’t tell you about because you would have lost your mind.
So Councilman Weeden went from Broadband Liaison to Board member. What’s your bet he ends up drawing a big ole salary for running the broadband project? Just like he did Historic Preservation, which is nothing but a shell of it’s former self.
One more thing, you probably already know that the Da Magpie is running against Hendricks for Vice Chairman….So stock up on earplugs.
Our advice to him comes from Mark Twain “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
