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Mayor Joe Adame voted on two issues related to the sale of a warehouse for the police and fire department valued at $590,000 to the City on Tuesday. The property which will be used to house fire and police equipment is listed by Adame & Associates on their website as being handled by William Douglas an agent at Joe Adame & Associates. The two items were item 10 a zoning change necessary to install an above ground fuel tank and the second, item 15 which was for the City to purchase the property. Adame voted in favor of both items.

Mayor Joe Adame made a revealing statement during one of many contentious moments, this one over the seemingly innocuous appointment of a youth to the the 78415 committee. Frustrated by Council disagreement, he said, "Lets move on and when we come out of executive session we'll have this all ironed out." One council member wondered out loud if the Mayor understood what he just said, implying that the Mayor was saying they should illegally work it out behind closed doors, instead of as required in open session.

At Tuesday’s City Council meeting Joe Esch representing developers Wallace & Begali and Innovative Leisure Horizons LLC, gave a report from the non-existent ABCenter Taskforce.

Leal Stumbles, Grow Corpus Shrivels

Priscilla Leal, District 3 Councilperson decided to get tough on staff today and in the process may have inadvertently demonstrated her own ignorance.

Suzie Canales Executive Director of Citizens for Environmental Justice revealed today that Mayor Adame was said to have known about toxic chemicals found in ground samples on a site for a planned public housing project since shortly after he took office but has failed to take any action or even make public the information.

By Suzie Canales, Executive Director of Citizens for Environmental Justice (CFEJ)
Citizens for Environmental Justice (CFEJ) has learned that the Corpus Christi Housing Authority has suspended their plan to build the D.N. Leathers Townhomes, a development that was to be located at 1001 Coke Street, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401 because the land is contaminated.

Mayor & Some Council Members Disclosure Forms Incomplete. Bidders say Adame will step down from Coliseum Committee. Maybe there is a reason some council members except Nelda Martinez and Priscilla Leal were willing to weaken the Ethics Policy prohibiting members contracting with the City.