Park Employees Intimidated By Narcotics Anonymous And Alcoholics Anonymous Groups

Even though there has been a smoking ban at Newport Beach for over 7 years, park employees were too intimidated to tell the AA/NA Groups to not smoke. Commissioners said that the AA/NA groups were just too confrontational for park employees, and need police to enforce the ban. First citizens asked the 12 steppers not to smoke and obey the law, but was brushed off. Typical behavior of 12 steppers acting like they are unique and special, and that they do not have to follow the law. The citizens of Holly Hill Florida certainly can relate towards this attitude of ‘Recovery Groups’. We have been dealing with The Sunrise Group, which is part of the Volusia County Intergroup Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Daytona Narcotics Anonymous meetings in Holly Land Park, Centennial Park and Sunrise Park. We have to deal with parking issues, litter , vulgarity, cigarette butts, assaults, death threats and the list goes on.

Maybe the Holly Hill City Commission will listen to the all the complaints from our locals and take action!

Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous groups can’t smoke at Newport beaches

City Council
By JON CASSIDY / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

NEWPORT BEACH – Recovery groups that smoke during meetings on the beach are facing a crackdown, after the City Council rejected a plan to give them smoking permits for their weekly meetings.Smoking on the beach has been banned in Newport Beach for more than seven years, but the City Council took up the issue Tuesday as part of a revision to its rules on parks and beach use.

Those new rules included a ban on smoking in parks, as well as broader language covering permits for park use.
Two groups, one from Alcoholics Anonymous and another from Narcotics Anonymous, have been gathering at the beach near 15th Street for years, City Manager Dave Kiff said.Many of the group members smoke, he said.

“A law is only as good as our ability to enforce it,” Kiff said, adding that parks employees were too intimidated to give tickets to the large recovery groups. His proposal was to allow the groups to apply for smoking permits that cover just their meeting time, but the idea was rejected.”There’s other people that (would) see them smoking there and think now it’s OK to smoke here,” Councilman Steve Rosansky said. Councilman Mike Henn said police would be needed to enforce the law.

“Clearly what we are left with is increased enforcement and we need to figure out a way to make that happen,” he said. “I don’t think it can realistically happen with park patrol people because the people that are smoking, I know, are just too confrontational when they’re asked to stop. So we’re going to have to figure out a way to get the proper police enforcement there.”

Two residents spoke against Kiff’s exception. Resident Denys Oberman said that she had been asking group members not to smoke for years, but that they usually ignored her or told her, “Get off of it” or “Go about your life.”

Two others came to ask that the basketball court at 38th Street Park on Balboa be closed at 7 p.m. rather than sunset; the council agreed. Those were the only two changes to a package of revised regulations approved on a 5-1 vote, with Councilman Ed Selich opposing and Rosansky not voting. The new regulations for parks include a smoking ban, a permit requirement for commercial use by coaches or trainers, and a permit requirement for “any games” played in the city’s 73 parks.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/smoking-340405-beach-smoke.html

Steve Smith Asked Rick Glass To Resign Over Sex Abuse Case

 Steve Smith and Karen Wheatey asked Commissioner Rick Glass for his resignation after his employer The Arc Of Volusia fired him over allegations of sexual abuse of a disabled woman under his care. Even though he has not been charged, his employer must have felt that there was enough evidence to fire him,right? What was he doing alone with this disabled woman in a compromising situation?

Then Mayor Roy Johnson thinks this is just a personal matter?

Liz Towsley had complained about possible sexual misconduct in regard to Chief Mark Barker in the past and other Holly Hill employees as well that made the newspapers.No charges were ever filed,but it sure makes you wonder who is running this City?

City Manager Oel Wingo was fired less than a year ago amid multiple accusations from Liz Towsley-Patton,Rick Glass and Donnie Moore.Liz Towsley stated that “she destroyed our city”. They investigated illegal document destruction and she was said to have lied to many city employees.Now nothing had been proven at that time and she was fired.At least she was not accused of a sexual abuse incident that Karen Wheatley described as “despicable and vile”. Liz Towsley did not seem to want to wait for an investigation to be done on Manager Oel Wingo before she was fired.

Listen to it in it’s entirety 

http://www.justin.tv/cityofhollyhill/b/298408409

Holly Hill Commissioner Rick Glass draws jeers and support

http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2011/10/26/holly-hill-commissioner-draws-jeers-support.html

Election would undo recent vote

BY ALAN SANDERFORD, HOLLY HILL

http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2011/10/27/election-would-undo-recent-vote.html

Proposed Charter Amendments Heading To Holly Hill Voters

http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2011/10/31/proposed-charter-amendments-heading-to-holly-hill-voters.html

PS-It Does not take a rocket scientist to realize how unjust this is!

 

Picture in 2008 when Liz Towsley was asked to resign!

Gun Confiscated From Holly Hill Commissioner Liz Towsley

Liz Towsley Patton voted yes to change 2 year terms that voters voted for last November ! She fails to support citizens asking for relief from harassment from Daytona NA/AA members……..but wants to stay 4 more years!

Gun confiscated from Holly Hill commissioner Liz Towsley

By judge’s order, a Volusia County sheriff’s deputy went to Towsley’s house Saturday evening and confiscated a handgun, magazine and some bullets, sheriff’s spokesman Gary Davidson said.

Circuit Judge William Parsons issued the injunction order on Friday after court documents described stalking and harassment Towsley has exercised over the past two years against Police Chief Don Shinnamon and Cmdr. Mark Barker.

In this case, the stalking and harassment was in the form of repeated complaints Towsley has filed against the chief and the commander, alleging conspiracy, bribery, extortion and misuse of public office, according to the injunction.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/hollyhill/

Holly Hill Fl Top Cops At Odds

Many of the same players that wont protect the public from threats of violence from Daytona NA and AA Members. They want to force 4 more years in office!

Holly Hill official, top cops at odds

Holly Hill official, top cops Shinnamon and Barker at odds  By LYDA LONGA   Staff Writer Daytona Beach News-Journal    April 2008

HOLLY HILL — Fearing for their jobs in what they call a city commissioner’s vendetta to discredit them through accusations of criminal actions and unethical sexual conduct, the police chief and his commander are asking the city to pay for a private attorney so they can defend themselves.

The level of Commissioner Liz Towsley’s scrutiny of Chief Don Shinnamon and Cmdr. Mark Barker for the past several months has reached such a fervent pitch — according to city memos and letters — that Towsley even followed Shinnamon to Jacksonville in early 2007 and snapped a photograph of his city car parked outside a hotel.