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Gordon Woods
gwoods@theclintonjournal.com
CLINTON — Clinton resident Seth Redington was back addressing the city council on Monday. Redington has been urging the council to investigate his claims a commissioner has used city facilities to put fuel in his personal vehicle and inappropriately taken fire department wages.
During Monday’s council meeting, Redington added information from documents he obtained from the city to what he already had presented.
In an unrelated issue, Redington began by telling commissioners state statute prohibits a mayor from asking a resident’s home address before allowing them to speak, which has been the routine procedure at Clinton council meetings.
“I’ve come up here a bunch, but I haven’t gotten any answers,” Redington told the council, “None.”
Redington said payroll documents he obtained from the city via Freedom of Information (FOIA) request show hours reported by firefighters for duty at the Clinton Haunted House in Oct. 2021 do not match the number of hours that were billed.
“It doesn’t add up,” Redington said. “So, you have, I think, an issue.”
He also acknowledged the statute that allows a commissioner to serve on the fire department but questioned the propriety of commissioner Dan Ballenger’s placing himself on the department after he was elected to office. Ballenger oversees the fire department as commissioner of public health and safety. Redington repeated his feeling that it was a conflict of interest for a city commissioner to also collect wages from a city department.
