Mays said Murphy was out of order and asked him to leave. I’m up out of here.”Īs Murphy got up, he continued to yell, telling the council that this hearing didn’t make sense, that it was political, a disgrace, and a shame.īurns told Murphy she did not know Murdock was in the audience when she asked those questions. Now you want to ask him if he’s some kin to somebody,” Murphy said. … Y’all all knew who he had brought in as his appointees downstairs. He went on to say he was upset the council wanted to talk about “who is some kin to somebody and all of that.” “I’m not going to be up in no city council meeting where every time somebody, our council president, gets into an altercation with someone and then calls the police and then the police come up in here like we are some kind of criminals,” Murphy said. Neeley answered that Murdock was not a blood relative but was married to his stepsister who passed away 12 years ago.īurns asked if Neeley felt that there was a conflict of interest in selecting Murdock to be on the evaluation committee for the trash contracts.Ībout 15 minutes later, the hearing was interrupted again. “Now, somebody call the Flint police.”Īfter things settled down, Burns asked the question again. “It ain’t going to be no mess up here,” Mays said. Murdock was sitting in the council chambers and began to call out when Neeley said this.Ĭouncil President Eric Mays told Murdock he was out of order and asked the police to come. Whether they were actually man and wife–,” Neeley started to say before being interrupted by an audience member. “He was married at one time to my stepsister that passed away 12 years ago. Neeley said he had “no involvement either directly or indirectly in the evaluation team’s work.”Īs far as being a relative, Neeley said Murdock was “not a blood relative.” In Neeley’s prepared statement to the council, he said that he requested Murdock to be part of the committee as he was the head of the blight division at the time. Murdock, the city’s former deputy chief of staff, was on the six-member evaluation committee of the first waste contract bid process per DPW Director Mike Brown’s testimony on Tuesday, March 22.īrown said that Murdock was added to the committee at the request of the administration. “Is DuVarl Murdock a relative of yours?” Councilwoman Tonya Burns asked Neeley. When Mayor Sheldon Neeley took the stand on March 24, the council asked him questions about the bid process, but also campaign contributions, alleged hostile work environments, and nepotism. The council voted to hold the investigative hearings last year after administration officials said the bid process was done in private the first time around-a violation of the city’s charter-and therefore had to be redone.

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