Jackson City Councilman De'Keither Stamps, of Ward 4, says http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/mar/10/developing-city-council-stunned-mayors-request-400/">he voted against the Trilogy Engineering Inc. contract to do a corrosion study for the city last week because it is an "unfunded mandate" by the State of Mississippi—and one the taxpayers cannot afford. In https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgp-bF0fXu09cVGM59cIjw">two videos on his YouTube channel, Stamps said his main priority wasn't who was getting the contract, but that the http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/mar/16/water-turns-city-wrestles-over-corrosion-study/">State was demanding that the City suddenly pay $400,000 for a corrosion study, instead of helping the capital city.
"I know several of the subcontractors personally," he says in the most recent video (see below). The issue is I don’t want to spend $400,000 when we don’t have it. This is an unfunded mandate from the State of Mississippi. If they can help us, I’m all for it. … It’s not something we’ve budgeted for."
Stamps, http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/feb/17/stamps-calls-state-emergency-over-lead-walks-out-a/">who has unsuccessfully asked for an emergency declaration over the lead issue several times, says the City needs stand and/or federal assistance in order to make sure Jackson residents are safe, especially in areas where 90 percent of the water tested positive for at least trace elements of lead.
"I want to test every child in the whole city that’s in these affected areas," he said in the second video below.
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