Then, Earley retaliated by ceasing the payment of meeting stipends of $27 citing the current deficit.
“In May we were evicted from our offices. The community paid millions of dollars for the remodeling the
6th floor, but we learned that DPS did not own the 6th floor and we were moved,” says Herman Davis,
School Board President.
Mark Schrupp, the former Facilities Manager, advised the Board that Earley wanted to move all the Board
members into a closet sized room at the Fredrick Douglass Academy. Herman Davis advised that the Fisher
Building remodeling was paid for by tax payers and he would ask for an injunction because the 12th floor
was also open.
“We were moved to the 12th floor. Darnell Earley refused to install phone lines citing cost, so we have been
forced use our cell phones. We have no fax lines either. He removed secretarial help at meetings except
those which are about the topics he chooses,” says Herman Davis.
During one of their meetings, he showed up with a large entourage and demanded an audience out of turn,
yelling and pontificating various statements which indicated his newness to Detroit.
The Board humbly set their agenda aside and obliged him to speak, as he was the Emergency Manager and
they wanted him to feel welcome.
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