ENCODE THIS!
I apologize for the delayed response, I’ve been out sick the past two days.
As we discussed on the phone on April 25, we have been having problems with our encoder and I am still working on resolving the issue. Until it is fixed, we will be recording and posting video as opposed to livestreaming.
This email was received from Amber Strazzo yesterday morning (and it is posted below). But somehow, someone managed to livestream last night’s “Climate Action Plan” to the city’s YouTube channel (click here). We learned from LNP that during Monday night’s city council committee meeting Mayor Sorace discussed hiring a $700 an hour attorney (see yesterday’s post). The video of Monday’s meeting still has not been posted to their YouTube channel.
This is not acceptable! The city can throw millions of dollars into the trash with MAW Communications and talk about hiring a $700 an hour attorney but they can’t resolve the issue with their encoder?
This coming Tuesday, council is scheduled to vote on the $700 an hour attorney to do research that could be done by a city employee at the Historical Society. The list of council members and their email addresses are here.
Write them and tell them:
— 1. The video of Monday’s committee meeting needs to be posted as soon as possible and certainly before Tuesday’s vote.
— 2. Tuesday’s meeting and all future meetings need to be livestreamed. If the city can’t handle it, contract it out!
There will be more briefly tomorrow. LIP News will not publish on Sunday but will be back on Monday.
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RESIGN, MURSE!
** This is simply unbelievable. See LNP and Caucus Editor Tom Murse’s very recent retweet below. Apparently this week’s issue of the Caucus features:
Christopher Ali, an expert on rural broadband talks about the difficulty of delivering high speed internet to vast swaths of Pennsylvania and the US.
How about the difficulty and cost of bringing it to Lancaster City, Tom? You have kept the residents of Lancaster in the dark for years about the millions of dollars that city officials have thrown down the drain on MAW and LanCity connect! You have protected and refused to hold the city officials accountable for this waste of millions of dollars of the public’s money because of your Marriott Hotel. You are an absolute disgrace to journalism, Murse, and you should resign!
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* Not only has Frank ripped off the city of Lancaster for millions, he has ripped off the Prince Law Offices P.C. See below – some of those invoices in the $1,263,536.12 bill MAW submitted to the city were to pay the Prince Law Offices for their defense of MAW against PP&L! Oh, Frank, I wouldn’t mess with the Prince Law Offices. Your gig is up!
“NEGLIGENCE OR
WILLFUL MISCONDUCT”
We offer a high quality service, a service that you can turn your back on, that’s going to work. We don’t just jump into anything. We figure out how we can make the appropriate economies without ever sacrificing engineering.
We call it being in Maytag mode. It’s the old image of the Maytag repairman sitting there bored, waiting for something to break: That’s us. We do our homework and make sure that when we install something, we can make it work and walk away knowing it’s properly engineered.
From the May 24th, 2017 LNP article by Tim Stuhldreher, “Meet Frank Wiczkowski, founder of MAW Communications, the company behind LanCity Connect,” (click here).
The above LNP article came two months after this site published, “SPECIAL REPORT FROM LIPNEWS – MAW IS TAKING LANCASTER TO THE BANK,” (click here).
On December 4th, 2018, MAW submitted a series of invoices to the City of Lancaster totaling $1,263,536.12. On April 5th of this year, the City of Lancaster filed a cross-claim against MAW Communications, Inc. and Frank T. Wiczkowski, President in the Lehigh County Court and asked the court to enter a declaratory judgement that MAW has “engaged in negligence or willful misconduct.”
And no one could figure out that this man is a liar, a fraud and a con man except for a reporter who spent two hours on the internet one morning and found lie after lie after lie and was literally in shock that anyone would hire this company let alone loan them $1.5 million dollars?
Please check back later today.
And council can spend. Also as reported here, they voted to hire the $700 an hour attorney! I will be putting in right to know requests to see how much the city ultimately pays this attorney and the outcome of all of this. 
* Upon arrival, Officers made contact with an adult male that had laid down on the sidewalk and put his arms out to his sides. That male had placed a handgun on the ground in view of Officers but away from his person. The firearm was secured and the male was checked for any additional weapons. That male was later transported to the Police station to speak with investigators.
* “This is like plopping a small city in the middle of farmland,” said Mary Haverstick, cofounder of the local citizens’ group Respect Farmland. “That’s the problem with this design.”
— The Lancaster city police press release states:
Go to the Lancaster County Prothonotary’s office and put in “Cheryl Ondechek.” There are 240 “Petitions for Forfeiture,” filed by Ondechek with all but three in the years 2015 to the present.
