From: Laurie Ortolano <laurieortolano@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 3:57 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Ce: Board of Assessors; Mayor's Office Email; Legal Dept; Graham, Donna; Vincent,
Richard
Subject: Attorney Leonard should be Fired
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Donna,
Could you please make this part of the Board of Alderman packet.
Attorney Leonard should be fired.
| had a depressing experience today when ! went to City Hall to try to see if | could get
some abatement applications stamped for receipt of records. | am representing a few
property owners on their abatements. | know the assessing office is still under
construction, but Ms. Kleiner's office has been open and assessing staff have been
working there. | emailed these applications in on Sunday for the time/date stamp, but no
one responded. | called the assessing office twice a week; no one responded. There is a
young woman stationed in the hallway of City Hall down from the finance office, who asks
where you are going and what you need. | told her | wanted to see if | could get abatement
applications stamped at Ms. Kleiner's office. She welcomed me along and did not ask if |
had an appointment.
Ms. Kleiner's office was locked and closed. | headed to the Mayor's office to see if
someone could tell me where some assessing people have been moved to. The Mayor's
office was locked and all lights were off. | headed to the third floor to the legal office to see
if the new RTK coordinator could help me with the abatement issue. | have been trying to
communicate with him by email and calling to see if he would meet with me to discuss
abatement applications and the process. In three weeks, he had not responded to emails
or phone calls.
| knocked on the door and a young woman answered and | asked if Attorney Neumann
was in. She would not answer and said | needed an appointment. | told her | have tried to
get one, but he will not respond. | walked through the door and entered the office to see if
he was there. After looking around, he came out of the back corner of the conference
room. He said | was trespassing and had to leave the office. | explained that | was just
looking for help on filing abatements and reviewing applications. He repeatedly said | was
breaking the law and trespassing. | said | would not leave until | had some answers.
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