The Council meeting last night was dominated by a variety of house keeping measures and votes to extend the life of actions taking longer to cure than usual. The controversial expenditure of $250,000 in COVID hazardous duty pay came up. The auditors made a report that measured the extent of dangerous exposure for employees from 0, being no exposure to 5, being extensive exposure. And the the appropriate pay to coincide with the ranking will come shortly. In other words a lot of employees who were working from home and took the hazardous duty pay will have to pay it back….to the US Treasury no less.
So the worst culprit is Denise Hathaway, finance director. Not only did she work from home a majority of the time, she ( like others working from home on tribal laptops) came into the (empty) building occasionally and was ranked at a level 1. That’s how you got extra cash. Come to the building. Expect a large portion of the $57 K she made over 7 months to be refunded. Oh, that was on top of her $90k salary. Hopefully she won’t dodge, block and stonewall the Treasury Department the way she did the outside auditors brought in by then Council member, now Vice Chairman Carlton Hendricks, Jr. to check “her” book keeping of the tribal government. What they could decipher was pretty damned bad. We talked about it in earlier posts
This round will be a tough one for Marie Tah Tah. She faces more scrutiny and less patience from tribal members who are stakeholders wanting leadership from the new Council.
But her insubordination and belligerence is known tribewide. And the new treasurer, Marie “Tah Tah” Stone unloaded in the Council meeting about Denise. Denise won’t obey Tah Tah. And? So she went on mumbling ridiculous questions to the accountant, demanded an executive assistant, complained about Gayle Andrews being an election monitor, dodged the question about producing a budget and plans to fly in the tribe’s Wisconsin audit firm to make a report at the Sunday General Membership Meeting. That’s in lieu of producing anything that even looks like a budget.We already know how bad it is. In other words if Denise doesn’t produce a spread sheet and incriminate herself, Tah Tah is incapable of doing it. This went on for at least 35-40 minutes. In Tah Tah’s mind, she was showing everyone how smart she was when it was confirmation of just the opposite.
Yes people, the nightmare’s beginning again. We were tortured by her behavior and professional malpractice when she was secretary. We’re still missing years of minutes. You can search this site for a reminder of the madness. Cedric tried to take advantage of Marie but in the end he became one of her many victims. We can hear people saying, “Well they put her back in there.” Not really. Tah Tah got 223 votes. But 388 people voted against her casting ballots for the other three candidates. If it were a two person race she would have lost.
Marie’s problem now is that the rouge government that violated Tribal law is gone. She can’t hide behind a corrupt regime. She can’t command a salary for her nonsense, especially during a financial crisis. Transparency is in the eyes of the Tribe.
