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Published May 20, 2008 12:19 am - City employees who voiced complaints to the city’s human resources director about council member and former Mayor Jon Tupper would have to testify before the City Council for the council to determine what action, if any, to take. Censure motion defeated By Debby Woodin dwoodin@joplinglobe.com City employees who voiced complaints to the city’s human resources director about council member and former Mayor Jon Tupper would have to testify before the City Council for the council to determine what action, if any, to take. The council, at its meeting Monday night, set a June 23 hearing for Tupper on allegations that he harassed two parks department employees and told them he was trying to oust the parks director, Jerry Calvin. Tupper, asked after the meeting if he wanted to respond to the allegations, replied, “Nope, you heard everything I had to say in there,” referring to the council chambers. Before the council discussed what to do about the city employees’ allegations, a motion by Councilman Bill Scearce to place a resolution of censure on the agenda failed. Scearce had the city attorney write up the resolution contending that Tupper had admitted at a work session last Monday that he sold baseball uniforms to an organization that leased ball fields from the city. Tupper, when asked at last week’s session by Scearce if he had supplied uniforms, said he had. He then added, “So what?” Tupper said he sold the uniforms after the vote on the lease. Scearce responded that sounded like a “tit for tat” deal. Scearce on Monday night offered a motion to place the resolution on the agenda. Tupper told the council that he brought documentation with him to the meeting to show that the customer to which he sold items was a team, not the entire league. He said he sold the team several items on March 27 and sold uniforms on April 10. He said he sold parent T-shirts on April 21. The vote on the lease was March 17. “On March 17, when this lease came before the council, I had had no contact with these individuals and not sold them anything,” Tupper told the council. Until about two weeks after the vote, “I had not collected anything, and nobody had paid me for any service,” Tupper said. “Therefore I think this is unfounded, and I’ve been wrongly accused for an entire week.” Councilman Benjamin Rosenberg seconded Scearce’s motion, saying he thought the council should discuss the issue of whether a conflict exists. Tupper had said that council members would have to be unemployed or retired if they were not allowed to do business with anyone who had ever come before the council. Councilman Morris Glaze said he was concerned about the way the accusation arose. 
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