Ok, so it wasn't quite the lynch mob I expected, possibly due to the early hour. About a dozen people spoke about the Malin issue, a couple people spoke about unrelated issues, and 
former Alderman McGivern (seen at right) was pretty much the lone defender of Craig Malin. Although I find it possible to believe that Malin did something wrong, I agree with McGivern that it isn't in his character to do this on purpose to "steal" the additional money. As I've said before, why steal in plain sight when you have access to so many other ways.Everyone at the meeting was fairly respectful towards Craig, the Mayor and council, but obviously there were calls for firing or at least punishment of our city administrator. Alderman Meyer made a valiant effort to separate the issue of what the contract says from the issue of who's going to sue who, but he was foiled by the legal department's insistence that the entire discussion should be in a closed session. Alderman VanFossen also voted against going into closed session, but the rest of the Aldermen apparently agreed with legal. I would assume that we will hear later today what the result of all this will be.
I believe our city is better off now than it was before Mr. Malin's arrival, and I even believe that he contributed to the improvements, so I hope that the council and administrator are able to work something out.
Pretty much all the press from the area were there, and you can also see Walter Skovronski sitting in the audience in this particular image. None of their articles will be posted 30 minutes after the meeting like this one though...Edit: Small QCTimes article up at 9:22. Not too bad Mr. Saul.
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QCI, if you think this is all Malin did, you are naive or wishful thinking. There is more and it will come out. Promise.
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