Poplar Bluff Internet's lawyer, Derrick Kirby, filed an additional count to the company's petition as well as another "Affirmative Defense" claiming the City Council did not follow appropriate rules before, during AND after their August 6, 2012, Dispute Hearing. Part of the filing included: [The City] failed to follow the applicable provisions of the Missouri Administrative Procedure Act. Specifically, [the City] violated the following provisions: A. [The City] failed to provide the statutory notice required §536.067 RSMo.; B. [The City] violated §536.083 RSMo. by permitting a hearing officer to also vote on the administrative appeal; C. [The City] violated §536.090 RSMo. by failing to provide Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law along with its purported decision; D.
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The old social security office building on Oak Grove sat idle for years. Fifteen months ago it sold for $600k. Last month it sold again for $828k. As Americans our culture thrives on such opportunities seized...but do you feel the same after you find out it was the citizens of Poplar Bluff footing the bill? It was the City of Poplar Bluff who, last month, bought that old building and lot at a premium price giving the "flipper" a $228,000 profit in 15 months. According to the Recorder of Deeds: 11/17/2011 - property purchased by a local businessman and wife for $599,000 11/21/2011 - financed by local bank for $600,000 2/19/2013 - City purchased property for $828,000 If the "flipper" just
Mar 18,Sources reported today that the employees of Nordyne were told today at 3pm that they would be pulling out of Poplar Bluff sometime in early 2014...killing 300 jobs for our area. The economic impact of Nordyne to our local economy is over $15M annually. I spoke to one businessman who said, "I'm a glass-half full type of guy. Who knows what new opportunities will come as a result of this loss." But, speculation has already begun that Nordyne's announcement will cause Mernard's to pull out of their plans to build on the north side of PB. And many in PB are shaking their head wondering why $100M has been committed to north Poplar Bluff development when little attention has been
Mar 14,For the record, cause some of you are probably wondering: I did not write them nor do I know who wrote or sent these letters to the DAR. Two letters from an anonymous person have been sent to the Daily American Republic this week requesting the paper investigate and inform their readers of City Council's soon-to-be-selection of engineering company for the first project by the Poplar Bluff TDD (a city corporation handling and funding the development of area transportation projects using a 1% sales tax). According to each of the letters, Carbon copies were also forwarded to Doug Libla, Todd Richardson, PB Mayor and all city council members, Ed Strefel, and Steve Halter. The second letter also included the SEMO
Feb 28,We have started a fund to help us cover this expense...click here for more information! UPDATE: All current information has now been reported by the DAR. The DAR took 30 days to report about our case reopened, 17 days to report on the dismissal of the ethics charges, and yet only 3 days to report the city was awarded $5k in legal fees. I was not contacted by the DAR regarding either article in Friday's (2/22) paper. Back in January, one of the judge’s requirement for reinstating our case was that PB Internet would pay the City's expenses incurred from the two extra hearings. We had argued that the charges were over and above that necessary to the proceedings, but
Feb 19,