MATT BAKER RESIGNS FROM COATESVILLE RDA

Matt did more for the RDA and Coatesville than any RDA member since John Pawlowski and Paul Givler. 

I would much rather have seen the resignation of Coatesville City Manager Gary Rawlings than see Karl Marking and Matt Baker go.

I warned them that I thought Rawlings was not tough enough for Coatesville. I know what name Karl has for Gary Rawlings.

Raj (Dharmesh Kalaria) resigned and left for India on the same day. Will Niki Oxendine, who was also involved in the City Finance Department resign too?

The Codes Department is actually much better than during the Walker Administration. Back then we had Coatesville Codes officer and crack cocaine dealer John Tinson patrolling the streets of Coatesville. SEE:

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Probation for legislative aide involved in illegal drug transaction 

Coatesville leaders seek leniency for Lisa Johnson 

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 

By MICHAEL P. RELLAHAN, Staff Writer 

WEST CHESTER — A former legislative aide to state Rep. Tim Hennessey and member of a well-known Coatesville political family was sentenced to five years' probation Monday for her role in a drug-related transaction involving her former live-in boyfriend...When the informant visited the house, Tinson was away. So Johnson took the $3,000 from him but the informant did not ask for any drugs and was given none. Later, when Tinson delivered the drugs to the informant, Tinson said Johnson would have given him the half-ounces if he had asked.

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Coatesville official resigns in dismay 

Redevelopment Authority member Matthew Baker says he simply ran out of time and energy 

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 

By ERIC S. SMITH, esmith@dailylocal.com 

COATESVILE — City officials Monday night accepted a Redevelopment Authority member's resignation.
Matthew Baker's departure from both the authority and the city's vacant property review committee comes less than two months after the resignation of former City Council President Karl Marking.
Baker said he submitted his letter of resignation about two weeks ago and cited reasons similar to what Marking had expressed when he resigned.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Grilling of Coatesville Finance Director and the GL Specialist who suddenly skipped off to India.

A long time city employee, a GL Specialist (General Ledger Specialist) with access to cash and the ability to delete finance files abruptly leaves for India when there is at least $168,000 unaccounted for. Not even a whimper about it from City Hall. 

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011

How will Coatesville City Manager Gray Rawlings deal with the “Too Big to Fail” Drug Business in Chester County”?

...I think that Gary Rawlings might be trying to “read the water” in that Machiavellian drug dealing world just under the surface of the Chester County waters right now.

There is still a lot of very hard work ahead and Mr. Rawlings needs a lot of help.

Lots of people will offer their help. He just needs to be able to sort from among those “helpers” the people that benefit from the “Too Big to Fail” drug business, from the ones who don’t.

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coatesville dems

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011

An excellent comment was made in regards to: The first duty of a new City Manager is to make the streets safe

 We have major problems in the Codes Department but I think the court system and not the Codes Department is the primary problem with Codes Enforcement and that has always been the case.