The following
took place AFTER Patti Licata joined the council four years ago:
Patti Licata’s son, Patrick, was hired FULL-TIME in the
DPW. The position was never advertised. The hiring was never mentioned at any council
meeting. It never appeared on any
meeting minutes.
Patti Licata voted to create a new “Building
and Grounds” department. Then she made
her son its first employee. Tony Luna said
that Pat Licata handles the whole department.
Patti Licata supported the layoffs of two DPW
employees that each had four years of seniority over her son.
Patti Licata voted “YES” on the new Building
and Grounds contract where her son signed his name as the “Shop Steward”.
Patti Licata allowed her son to take the town’s Ford
Expedition home, taking away another parking spot on North Woodside.
Records showed that Patti’s son was the only
“Building and Grounds” employee having his i-phone paid for by the taxpayers of
Lodi.
Patti’s son, Joseph (the president of the Lodi Board of
Education), has been paid thousands of dollars in “consulting fees” with Lodi
Drug Alliance money. During the last
four years, Patti has been unable to explain what he has actually done for that
money. She refused to produce any of his supposed work even after it was
requested through the Open Public Records Act.
She gets angry and argumentative
when questioned.
After Patti Licata began paying the Lodi
Boys Club $60,000 a year with Lodi tax dollars, her son Joseph received a
substantial pay increase at the club. Patti
refused to disclose her son’s compensation at the club as she was voting “YES”
on the payments. Employees of the club
were laid off as Joe Licata received his substantial pay increase.
After Patti Licata began paying the Lodi Boys Club
$60,000 a year with Lodi tax dollars, her daughter began working at the club.
Patti Licata voted “Yes” on all of the appointments
to the Lodi Housing Authority where a third son is employed.
Patti voted “YES” on numerous bills for a business
that employed two of her sons.
Patti Licata received a new position in the
Lodi schools. She was chosen over teachers
with more education and more years of service.
In the last
four years, Patti Licata has not offered one idea at any council meeting. Why
is she running again?
