It looks like there may be an opening for the city manager position in Troy, Michigan, just 30 miles away from where current Ludington City Manager John Shay was plucked from his Almont village manager job back in 2003.  The current one was involved in a dispute just after a dinner, and was arrested for what appears to be a couple of assaults on his woman partner.

Troy city manager charged after allegedly assaulting woman in Clawson
Brian Michael Kischnick allegedly tackled woman

The Troy city manager is facing charges after he allegedly assaulted a woman Friday night [March 9]in Clawson.   Brian Michael Kischnick was charged Saturday in connection with the incident.

Police said a call was received about 10:21 p.m. about a man pushing a woman to the ground in the 700 block of South Chocolay Avenue. Officers arrived and saw a crowd of people.


After interviewing Kischnick, the woman involved and witnesses, police determined that about 10 p.m., Kischnick and the woman were returning home from dinner in an Uber. They got into an argument and Kischnick allegedly tackled the woman to the ground, police said, and pushed her down when she attempted to get up.

Officers determined that domestic assault and battery had taken place.  A not guilty plea was entered for Kischnick. Personal bond was set in the amount of $5,000, and he was ordered to have no contact with the victim.


Troy Mayor Dane M. Slater said a special city council meeting is planned for Sunday in a statement. Read the statement below:

"Brian Kischnick, city manager of the city of Troy, was arrested on Friday, March 9, 2018 in the City of Clawson, and charged with domestic assault and battery. Immediately upon receiving notification, the Troy City Council started the process to call a special city council meeting for the earliest available time, which is Sunday, March 11, 2018 starting at 4 p.m. in the City Council Board Room."

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/troy-city-manager-charged-after...

John Shay has recently interviewed for a township manager position in Holland Township; as a favor to Mr. Shay, we feel we must alert him to this opportunity to not only make more money, but to go back to where his roots are.  Shay can certainly tell them he has never been arrested for domestic assault by the police department he supervises, nor for any of the other illegal and/or unethical acts he has participated in or masterminded. 

Let's build John Shay up so as to make him the odds-on choice to ride in on a white horse and get the job in Troy.  Metaphorically a "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.  Troy city councilors, that was the last guy you had, John Shay is not a Trojan Horse.  Not the front end at least.

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As may have been expected, Troy CC terminated Kischnick this afternoon, paving the way for Shay to head southeast, if he feels like it.

I've also been notified that the Albion City Manager has just resigned too.  If John Shay wants to remain in western Michigan and rule over a little over 8000 people, this may be the job for him. 

Great opportunities to start over again.

Shay better shag ass to the new sandbox to play in.

The unfunded pension liability for Troy is $0 compared to Ludington's $11,000,000.

Johnny, just think of all the fun you can have burying the people of another city with burdensome debt.

Median earnings of Troy is $30,000 higher, Troy's population is growing, 10 times larger city than Ludington.

Johnny just think of the fun that awaits you.

And don't forget to take your cabal of corruption er erstwhile supporters with you.

I don't understand how a contracted manager can be fired without some sort of trial and conviction. I'm not siding with the guy but in all truth the only ones who know exactly what took place is the manager and the woman. The witnesses were looking out their windows in the dark, after their attention was focused on the incident after it took place. It's possible that City officials acted in haste and it could cost the taxpayers plenty.

I know what you mean.  Typically, city managers have clauses in their contracts that they get many months severance if they're fired, unless they are convicted of a felony (not just charged with one).  The victim is also supposed to work for the city, so maybe there is a bit more than what has been reported so far going on.  The local news haven't detailed what was said at the meeting, I'm thinking they probably went into a closed session to discuss their options before voting to get rid of the alleged cad.  If they fire him, they may get out of paying for his legal defenses.

Trial or conviction? Haven't you heard the news  media is now the jury, judge and executioner when it comes  to women now a days.   That being said,they both were probably under some kind of alcoholic influence coming from  a nite out. She must have said something pretty bad to P him  off to do that to her.

More evidence that John Shay will fit right in if he applies for the Troy job.  Additionally, it should be noted that Troy has sparked perhaps the most cited FOIA lawsuit (Evening News v. City of Troy) along with many other noteworthy FOIA and OMA lawsuits:  Long-secret report raises questions about Troy mayor, councilman

"An investigative report that Troy's elected officials kept under wraps for nearly two years — then narrowly voted 4-3 to release this month — has brought to light questionable behavior not only by Troy's recently fired city manager but also the mayor and a city councilman.
The contents of the 48-page report, released along with hundreds of pages of e-mails and other documents, were compiled by a lawyer who’d been the city labor attorney from 1984 until he resigned the day after the City Council voted in 2016 not to release the report.
The report shows that former City Manager Brian Kischnick, after causing a traffic accident in Clawson, requested that the city cover the $1,560 cost of repairs to the other driver's damaged car at a collision shop owned by a council member. It also shows that, to comply with a city rule to obtain three estimates for work more than $1,000, Kischnick asked the collision-shop owner to supply the two competing quotes. The lawyer who compiled the report wrote in his conclusion that the city could’ve saved the money simply by requiring the owner of the other car to seek coverage from his own auto insurance.

Another finding in the report says that Kischnick, after hearing from another member of the council, ordered subordinates to cancel the city’s natural-gas contract with its longtime supplier, a company authorized by the State of Michigan’s MiDeal Cooperative Purchasing Program, which has been used since 1984 to get the best deals for Michigan's cities, townships and villages. Kischnick, however, told subordinates that he’d received the name of a new supplier from one of Mayor Dane Slater's friends and so he was instructing them to switch the contract immediately.
The contract, which, depending on the city’s gas usage, was expected to cost well more than $100,000 for the year, was made without the approval of the City Council, in violation of the city charter, with Kischnick claiming he had the power to do so because it was "an emergency," the report said.

The mayor's name, along with numerous other names in the report, was removed before the report was released to the public and the media. But an unredacted report obtained by the Free Press shows it was Slater. When City Council members voted April 9 to release the report, they agreed to have “redacted” — or removed — all names of those who might wish that their identities be kept secret.
Troy’s 19 months of secrecy shrouding the report, and its no-holds-barred legal efforts to fight a lawsuit last year aimed at unveiling the report under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, are said by critics to be a prime example of the lack of transparency in Michigan’s public entities — from local governments and universities to the Legislature and governor’s office. Michigan repeatedly has been rated last of the 50 states in rankings for overall government transparency, a problem that state lawmakers have refused to address for decades."

It's interesting also to note that the 50 year old city mgr. was having relations with his 28 year old co-worker in the city offices. I wonder if she divulged that evening of the assault, that she in fact released an unredacted report to the newspaper. If so, this would explain partially why he went off the deep end. Was there any info. on that in the court case? Testimony of the woman attacked? Should be something in the police report that a FOIA request would reveal, that is now also being kept secret. Lastly, after seeing that Troy is about 800,000 in population, I really doubt Shyster Shay could handle the 1000% increase in work load. He's used to bullying his way around a measly 8,000 populace and work load.

Kind of like some no-bid or exclusive, not-well-advertised bids that have gone on here in the recent past.  I think you are making the locals take notice, XLFD, in our local case, voluntary resignation.  Thanks for keeping up on the ethics here and elsewhere.

Awareness is a large part of the picture when you have a public body like the City of Ludington that regularly conducts its business in unattended, unrecorded and un-minuted committees and via deliberations and votes made outside even those.  The COLDNews and WMOM attends the regular meetings, but does little more than tell us what they did either after the fact or from city hall's perspective on the weekend before issues get voted on officially.   

There is typically a hidden interest (or several) and storyline behind most issues that the public is unwary of if they only catch the local corporate media.  We try to spackle that information gap, and fortunately, so does the Troy area media.

Perfect breeding ground for getting away with anything they want when subcommittee meetings are not attended by the public, are not recorded and they make no minutes. How long has this been going on?

I think X noted this in the last 2-3 years, perhaps more. I realized this also some years back too, and that's why I call every CC mtg. a "fixed agenda". There is going to be no changes to what Shay and others have planned ahead,  behind closed doors, at least 99.9% of the time. That's another reason I don't go anymore, can't say or do anything that's going to change anyone's mind, it's all been predetermined and fixed in advance. These people in the last 10 years have changed our city charter so many times for their gain, that I lost count anymore. That Rental Inspection Ordinance, with well over 50-75 commenters and landlords in attendance in opposition, gave me some hope things could change. But, that too was a fixed deal, and they basically ignored the many that came and opposed it over and over again.

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