Mark Schrader

Unregistered · 07-20-2020, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I would agree with this post .... the only thing Is as City Manager, Schrader will have more power than Chief of Police and that’s what he is after.... POWER

Power is what Schrader wants. He will let laBelle be Chief.

Unregistered · 07-22-2020, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Power is what Schrader wants. He will let laBelle be Chief.

Never thought about that but I could see it!

Unregistered 5 · 07-23-2020, 07:19 PM

Garrett please stop, we all know you are the one posting these defamatory posts. You just can't bear the fact that MS will not bend the rules for your little agendas. Please resign your tenure as Mayor. You and your family have brought a huge amount of shame and humiliation to Highlands county and Avon Park. I deeply feel sorry for you. Politics is not for everyone. No one will miss you or scandalous agendas! Bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out the door!

1st amendment matters · 08-08-2020, 04:07 PM

This all makes sense now. Mayor Anderson did not want Mark for city manager due to his family abusing our law enforcements time, resources and man power back when they were defaming Deleon. It back fired and they were counter sued. I'm sure MS pushed for some sort of charges for the false reporting and abuse of services that misappropriated a lot of time and man power resources for nothing more than a ruse. Fast forward 7 years later, Mayor tried to defer other council members and committee's to this website in an attempt to discredit and defame Mark. He even tried to get Sheriff Paul Blackman's good name involved, in an attempt to further discredit Mark and keep his empire and agendas rolling. Our Mayor surely possess balls of steel. No one, and I mean no one wants anything to do with him. Mark is a good man, yes, he is by the book, which would create problems for the good ole boys, who want continuity and business as usual that is detrimental to our city charters and rules. Randy is also a good cop, yes he will root out the decade's of kick backs and hush money by our previous code enforcement officials. This change of guard was instrumental to get Avon Park back on track. I'm glad people are now noticing how toxic the entire Anderson family is, and squeaky clean god fearing individuals are not what they appear to genuinely be based on the underlying agendas and scandals that have been brought to fruition.

Unregistered · 08-09-2020, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by 1st amendment matters

Randy is also a good cop, yes he will root out the decade's of kick backs and hush money by our previous code enforcement officials.

Your reply lost all credibility with this sentence. Randy can be called a lot of things, but a good cop and the person who roots out dirty cops/politicians is not one of them. Randy is the dirty cop who needed to be rooted out. He should have taken his mini-me with him.

Faithfully full · 08-10-2020, 08:53 PM

Who cares, this whole entire county is a dump. Labelle, is smart and knows how to play by the rules. Most of you whiners on here are butt hurt by previous administrators who got spanked either politically or administratively. Avon Park has always been a playground for lovers of corruption, nepotism and racial bias. The previous poster is correct, Mayor Anderson is filthy with corruption and scandals. I saw the you tube meeting where Mr. Blackman was giving notice to pull out services in AP. Mayor's noise was filthy brown, as usual, indicating how he would've tattle'd on other council members had he heard about AP possibly starting back their PD. Blackman is also a smart cop, he is very knowledgeable on the Mayor and his families past tactics of rumor spreading and drama! MS is going to get this city back on track once and for all. The change of guard was the best thing to happen in Avon Park. Credibility is irrelevant, especially in Highlands County. Go cry elsewhere!

Unregistered1987 · 08-10-2020, 08:59 PM

Avon Park city manager pursuing defamation damages

BY PAUL CATALA
Highlands Today
Published: May 29, 2014

AVON PARK – Avon Park City Manager has filed a defamation lawsuit against Avon Park City Councilman Garrett Anderson, his mother, Sherrie Anderson and his sister, Brittany McGuire.

According to the complaint filed Wednesday with Highland’s County Tenth Judicial Circuit Court, Garrett Anderson, owner-operator of Anderson Arms, an Avon Park firearms reconstituting company, has used his position on the city council to influence Avon Park and Highlands County officials to “condone the violations for the economic benefit of Anderson Arms.”

The complaint is seeking action for defamation where damages are over $15,000.

According to the complaint, Anderson Arms has been previously warned by inspectors concerning ordinance violations and safety codes. Garrett Anderson and those working with him have been frustrated by Deleon’s unwillingness to grant Anderson Arms “special favors.” It stated other city council members feel the company should not get special treatment and supported Deleon’s decision to not grant special privileges.

In retaliation, the complaint alleges Garett and Sherrie Anderson and McGuire launched an effort with public agencies to “discredit Julian Deleon through false publication of defamatory matter.”

March 12, Garrett Anderson filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics that Deleon “abused his power and authority” as city manager, citing unwarranted inspection of his company by the Highlands County building inspector, the Avon Park Fire Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

As a result of the ethics complaint, city council retained investigator Al Smith to investigate Deleon’s alleged “misconduct.” According to the first complaint, the investigation stated the building inspector, S.Y. Moseley, said he never spoke with Deleon about shutting down Anderson Arms nor did Deleon threaten to fire him. David Cloud, interim fire chief, said Deleon’s threat to his job if his company wasn’t inspected was untrue. And Liza Ryan of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, stated Deleon didn’t file a false report that Anderson Arms was engaging in illegal activity.

Smith prepared a report for city council and based on his investigation, found the allegations in the ethics complaint were “unsubstantiated.”

Anderson’s ethics’ complaints were dismissed Sept. 18, 2013, based on a preliminary investigation by the Florida Ethics Commission, finding no probable cause finding Deleon had used his position to threaten Anderson.

In early March, rather than take his ethics violations case against Deleon to court, Anderson settled his case against Deleon. A hearing had been set to decide whether Deleon could recoup attorney’s fees in his defense against alleged ethics violations.

After having the complaint against him twice dismissed, the case was set to go before Florida’s Division of Administrative Hearings in the Avon Park City Council Chambers. Anderson was required to pay the City of Avon Park $12,683.58 to reimburse for Deleon’s attorneys’ fees. The agreement stipulated the money be paid “in one lump sum by March 31, 2014.”

A second complaint filed by Deleon is against Sherri Anderson for filing a complaint with the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office alleging the same misconduct as her son and the third complaint involving McGuire stated March 3, after the original settlement keeping Anderson from pursuing allegations against Deleon, another grievance was filed with the sheriff’s office to “circumvent” the March settlement and validate the previous complaints filed by Garrett and Sherrie Anderson against Deleon after Garrett “promised he would not make again in the future.”

Garrett Anderson said Thursday he, his mother and sister find the new complaint to be “ludicrous” and thought it was over. He said he and his family would now pursue “due diligence” and “do what we need to do to get this done” against Deleon and his attorney, Robin Gibson of the Gibson Law Firm, Lake Wales.

“I thought everything was in good standing and we were making progress and moving forward,” he said. “I didn’t expect this.”

Deleon’s complaint also includes four other counts: conspiracy to defame and defamation by Garret and Sherrie Anderson and McGuire.

In an email, Deleon said the lawsuit “speaks for itself” and deferred comments to Gibson. Gibson wasn’t available for comment Thursday.

Fed up with politicians · 08-11-2020, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Faithfully full

Who cares, this whole entire county is a dump. Labelle, is smart and knows how to play by the rules. Most of you whiners on here are butt hurt by previous administrators who got spanked either politically or administratively. Avon Park has always been a playground for lovers of corruption, nepotism and racial bias. The previous poster is correct, Mayor Anderson is filthy with corruption and scandals. I saw the you tube meeting where Mr. Blackman was giving notice to pull out services in AP. Mayor's noise was filthy brown, as usual, indicating how he would've tattle'd on other council members had he heard about AP possibly starting back their PD. Blackman is also a smart cop, he is very knowledgeable on the Mayor and his families past tactics of rumor spreading and drama! MS is going to get this city back on track once and for all. The change of guard was the best thing to happen in Avon Park. Credibility is irrelevant, especially in Highlands County. Go cry elsewhere!

Garrett Anderson; "We have a representative from promise technologies"!

Brenda Gray; "Who"?

Maria Sutherland; Garrett's dad!!

Jim Bernard; "Window World"!

Pat Anderson; There is only one little problem, the price is going to go up 5-8 % if you don't decide by tonight.

Jim Bernard; says to himself, How much was my cut again?

Garrett Anderson; celebratory fist wave pump!!!!

Along comes Darth Schrader "darth vader theme music"!

Stay tuned for next weeks episode "As Avon Park Turns"

What a S%#t show!!!

Unregistered · 08-16-2020, 02:56 AM

It’s not always been Anderson, Labelle and Schrader. It’s long been a shit show. Avon Krap politics were shitty before them, shitty now and will be shitty after they are gone. APPD was garbage to.