This Week in Austin City Council Corruption: Spending $668,800 on Employee Trophies
This week’s Austin City Council agenda for Thursday, November 12, 2020 features several highly suspicious items that once again raise grim, grave questions about what exactly Austin Mayor Steve Adler and the ten radical, free-spending Austin City Council members are doing with our tax dollars.
ITEM #27: Authorize award of a multi-term contract with MTM Recognition Corporation, to provide service awards, for up to five years for a total contract amount not to exceed $668,800.
Strategic Outcome(s): Government that Works for All.
MTM Recognition Logo
MTM Recognition Corporation is based in Oklahoma City, OK.
And when they talk about providing “service awards”, they mean actual physical awards.
They make trophies, plaques and other customized awards that companies give to employees during annual banquets or recognition ceremonies.
From their website: "MTM Recognition Corporation partners with governments, sports teams, associations and organizations to design, manufacture, and deliver memorable awards to deserving performers."
MTM provides two handy, dandy stats on when companies should give employees a trophy to mark a milestone with the company.
70% of recognition awards are presented to employees one-on-one with a manager
35% are presented at a special event, like a banquet or luncheon
MTM Recognition Corporation strongly recommends giving your employees free gifts on the first day of work during the “onboarding process” (yeah, no kidding).
THE BIG QUESTION: Why is Austin City Council authorizing $668,800 in EMPLOYEE TROPHY spending - starting this Thursday, November 12 and running through November 2025 - in the middle of an economic downturn?
That works out to $133,760 per year on EMPLOYEE AWARDS.
That’s $11,146.66 per month.
It’s no coincidence the last three numbers in that dollar amount are “666”, because these people are straight up EVIL to even remotely consider putting this absolutely absurd and highly SUSPICIOUS line item on this Thursday’s Austin City Council agenda.
In less than 100 hours, Austin City Council is set to vote on spending $2,563.43 per week on Trophies and Awards to give each other.
That’s every damn week through November 2025.
NEVER FORGET: Austin Mayor Steve Adler told Austin’s iconic music venues in September that “there’s simply no funding available”, before begrudgingly tossing them a $5 million lifeline in October by “digging through the couch cushions,” (Adler’s words - not mine).
Certainly District 4 Austin City Councilman Greg Casar and many current Austin city employees are part of the “everyone gets a trophy” generation.
But this is preposterous. It makes zero sense.
Something is going on here.
They would need to throw luncheons, banquets and ceremonies around the clock, just to pat each other on the back and hand out $2,563 in weekly trophies for the next five years.
Which begs the following questions:
Why is Austin spending $668,800 on trophies RIGHT NOW, during an economic downtown, while corrupt Mayor Steve Adler repeatedly tells Austin’s iconic music venues and small businesses "Sorry, there’s simply no funding?"
Which specific City of Austin government employees are receiving these awards, and for what reason?
In addition to trophies, MTM also sells a variety of electronic items like cameras, smartwatches and bluetooth headphones.... is Austin City Council using taxpayer money to shower themselves and their colleagues with expensive gifts?
Since it’s difficult to imagine how anyone could spend $2,563 every week on trophies and tchotchkes... is Austin City Council REALLY purchasing $668,800 worth of trophies from this company in Oklahoma City over the next five years?
OR: is the money in Item 27 being used for SOMETHING ELSE?
When you combine this highly dubious ITEM 27 from this week’s agenda with the August 2020 case of MEA Promos (another shell promo company Teddy F. Brosevelt BLEW the lid off in August by driving out to Cedar Park, TX and discovering it was a tiny P.O. box), it's obvious that Austin City Council is trying to funnel, launder or steal MILLIONS of dollars from the City of Austin and its citizens.
After TEDDY...
Dropped multiple Twitter bombs during the week of the meeting
Made a blockbuster appearance on Austin’s most-listened to political podcast, The Austin City Councilman hosted by local hero Brad Swail
...the City of Austin postponed voting on MEA Promos for two weeks, and then REMOVED IT from the agenda entirely, never to be seen again.
What is going on here?
MEA Promos was a fraudulent shell company that Austin City Council was ready to give $3.8 million dollars.
Teddy Brosevelt exposed it to the world, and Austin City Council yanked it off the agenda in fear.
Now this week we have Austin City Council voting on MTM Recognition Corporation getting $668,800 by supplying the city with Trophies.
Did Austin City Council think we'd be so disheartened by last week's local election results that they could sneak in more grifting while we weren't looking?
Will TEDDY once again expose the corrupt grifters in Austin City Council for their fraudulent, corrupt scheme to hide or launder money through one of these bogus front companies?
Or will Austin City Council once again give Austinites the middle finger and do whatever the hell they please, knowing full well that the Democrat activist Austin corrupt HACK news media (who largely moved here from California and the East Coast) are cheering them on every step of the way, while gladly opening their arms for free gift baskets containing cameras, smartwatches and bluetooth headphones stamped with a little City of Austin logo on them every Pride Day).
History might repeat itself, as Teddy F. Brosevelt is scheduled for his third appearance on The Austin City Councilman podcast with host, producer and local hero Brad Swail TOMORROW (Monday, November 9, 2020).
We will have more details on the mysterious case of MEA Promos later tonight here on HugePatriot.com !!
Be back with a new post by 11 pm!
Love, Teddy F. Brosevelt
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