Author name: Toni Denis

Charter Requires Prescott City Council to Hire New Attorney

Conflict of Interest, Ethics /

Suppose you owned a business that sometimes required knowledge or competence outside your personal level of expertise. Wouldn’t you hire a person with the specific skillset and experience you needed? Well, apparently that’s NOT what is happening with the City of Prescott’s legal department. Prescott City Attorney Jon Paladini announced last month he was resigning […]

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City Needs to Sever Ties with Compromised Attorney

Conflict of Interest, Ethics /

By Joe Zarnoch Dear Prescott Residents: Are you aware that the Prescott City Attorney, Jon Paladini, was involved in an alleged domestic violence incident last year, in August 2020 involving a former city employee, former Deputy City Clerk Cindy Pemberton?  Mr. Paladini was never placed on administrative leave pending a thorough investigation of the matter.

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Council Needs to Reassess Retaining Paladini’s Attorney Services

Conflict of Interest, Ethics, Growth /

Lack of Ethics, Disrespect for Citizens Should Be Cause for Complete Termination Legal Definition of Moral Turpitude: 1: an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community 2: a quality of dishonesty or other immorality that is determined by a court to be present in the commission of a criminal offense

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Hypocrisy, Ethics, Self-Dealing, and Greg Mengarelli

Conflict of Interest, Ethics, Growth /

Greg Mengarelli, incumbent and Mayor candidate, says he makes decisions based on his Christian values. Yet multiple times a week his campaign, of which he is the Chair, sends out mailers and newspaper ads attacking his opponent with lies. Nightly, Mengarelli’s campaign runs ads attacking his opponent on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and the History Channel

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Citizen Opinion Piece Crystallizes Candidates’ Failures

Conflict of Interest, Growth, Water Conservation /

Prescott voters have been making their voices heard objecting to rapid, damaging growth at City Council meetings, in letters in local publications and in opinion pieces. Most recently, the Daily Courier published a “Talk of the Town” column in which long-time Prescott resident Kathleen Murphy wrote about her disappointment in how past City Council members

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Mengarelli Campaign Treasurer Directly Connected with Dells Developer

Conflict of Interest, Dark Money, Ethics, Growth /

Connecting the dots between Mayor Greg Mengarelli’s re-election campaign and AED’s Jason Gisi is indisputable thanks to writer Tom Cantlon’s excellent in-depth research and the assistance of some concerned citizens. Not only did Mengarelli accept donations from two principals of the development group in his first election, he also uses a campaign treasurer who works

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City Officials Should Be Working for Us—Not the Developers

Conflict of Interest, Ethics, Growth /

Throughout the history of Prescott, whenever a rancher or landowner wanted to develop houses in the Granite Dells or in other areas of town, the City council often rubberstamped the project with no questions asked.  Now there is public pressure, as well as legal considerations before the Council can shove major projects through.  Some, like

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