Circling back to the Fife Mayor Roscoe emails (from the Salary Commission post #3) …in one of them she mentions an email she had staff send out to their council, after she “witnessed some interaction between a councilmember and a freshly appointed commissioner that sounded like lobbying for a raise. Good grief” (LINK)
In Milton, two hours before the August 6, 2020 city council budget retreat, where her salary increase was scheduled to be discussed, Mayor Styron-Sherrell sent all the council members an email lobbying them for her raise. She also sent the email to Chief Hernandez, City Clerk Summers, and Finance Director Robbecke (last page of link). The only people she didn’t send it to were all of us.
And it clearly had an impact on at least some city council members because at the August 17, 2020 council meeting more than one council member referenced not wanting our mayor to “work for free”.
“…I hope you will use your power to do the right thing. In the mean time, I’m left with the feeling that I’m
only acceptable when working for free.” (excerpt from Mayor Styron-Sherrell, August 6, 2020 letter to council)
Perhaps it’s Milton citizens’ turn to say “good grief“.
She's Not My Martyr 
Seems odd you need contact information but no name listed here. Come out and address your questions with the mayor snd council members
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Thanks for the comment. The documents aren’t redacted — my name is easily determined if you read the documents, and WordPress sets the format of the contact box. I’m happy to modify it if I can.
I have spoken at council meetings many, many times over the years and several times with this administration. And I’ve had conversations outside council meetings too. Multiple public records requests showed a false narrative being presented at council meetings, so I decided to create this website so anyone who’s interested could see all the documents, rather than just make statements at council (which really isn’t the venue for this anyway, if you read the council meeting rules). The blog has only covered a few so far — there are over 1,200+ pages.
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Gosh this website was created a year ago and the posts just started this spring. Talk about an ax to grind. Didn’t someone else do a mystery website last election? Was that you?
Anonymous keyboard warriors aren’t martyrs either.
Did Candace Owens inspire you?
Google not my martyr, this and Candace Owens 👌
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Thanks for commenting. No idea who Candice Owens is and she did not inspire my website. My website is a play on words from signs that were posted around town about 15 years ago that read “She’s Not My Mayor” about a previous administration (maybe you lived in town then and saw the signs).
Chief Hernandez referred to mayor as a “martyr” on several occasions during the council meetings discussing increasing her salary, and I said to my husband “she’s not my martyr” and he said “hey that could be a sign.”
As the meetings wore on, the inconsistencies between words and actions from meeting to meeting started to really bother me (guess that’s my axe to grind), especially since we were barred from speaking during the discussions, so there was no way to point out the inconsistencies as they occurred. Citizens had to wait until the next meeting to comment on the previous meeting during the citizen comment period – and in case you aren’t aware, citizens could pre-Covid speak during the agenda item discussions as well as during the citizen comment period (which historically was only for items not on the agenda). Other cities allowed citizens to participate in discussions but our mayor didn’t. That must be part of her transparency plan (there’s that axe again).
Regarding the timing of everything – registering the name was the easiest part. Then I designed the signs and had them printed — that happened in Sept/Oct. The public records requests were submitted in October and I received the last documents from the city in January. I then went through the documents (over 1,200 pages) to see if any of them contradicted what was stated at the meetings (I transcribed all the council meeting discussions, which also took quite a bit of time), and I found emails that showed what she said at the meetings was not what was done. Then I had to decide how to present it. I didn’t want to report speculation – only documents matched against words. I had never created a website before and found it to be very difficult and time consuming. In May I finally asked a friend to help me, and she pulled it all together and showed me how to use it. That’s my story. I am sorry it took so long.
Finally, I am well aware I am not a martyr and neither is the mayor. We’re both alive.
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