Rita Tickle dressed in light blue. They got rid of Rita Tickle before - but because of her political, (former Oswego Mayor Randy Bateman, chuckle) and family connections she got her job back.

What is wrong with the City of Oswegos, Personell Director, Rita Tickle? She has been notified of the misconduct by Robert McGrath while working for the City of Oswego and refuses to investigate McGrath, or take any action whatsoever? Rita Tickle has got to be terminated as City Oswegos -Personnel Director.

Rita "Tubby" Tickle, City of Oswego, Personnel Director did nothing while Robert McGrath, Clerk of the Works, for the City of Oswego was caught setting a house fire. McGrath was arrested, and charged with arson. Rita Tickle was asked what she was going to do about this? Her reply was: "I have no control over what McGrath does on his own time." So Rita Tickle lets an arsonist continue to work for the City of Oswego, collect a salary of over $33,000.00 a year plus benefits. Take a city staff car for personal use, conduct personal business on city time, is notified and does nothing about it! What are City of Oswego tax payers paying for?

That photo above was on the corner of West Van Buren, and 5th Street. It was a apartment house McGrath was caught at setting fire to it. It was the second time in a couple of weeks that the house was set on fire. McGrath was arrested and charged with arson. There where two other houses that where torched, one on the corner of 6th and Montcalm Street, and the other was the Psi Phi Fraternity House just several houses away from where McGrath lives.

This is the Psi Phi Fraternity House - it was one of the houses destroyed by fire - it was located only a few doors down from McGraths house, the other house was right around the corner from McGraths at the corner of W 6th and Van Buren, Street. The apartment house McGrath setting fire to was located at West 5th and Van Buren Street. And the fire that burned down the Pizza Shop and killed the college student was located directly across from the McGrath's bar "The Clubhouse Tavern". And McGrath was standing there the night of that fire.

Robert McGrath is on the neighborhood watch list in the 1st Ward, City of Oswego.

Message from Rita Tickle

There is no proof of anything in those planters. There is no date or time on the picture of the city car either. Do you have a date and time?

Rita Tickle
Personnel Director
City of Oswego

Now Rita Tickle says she won't do anything about Robert McGrath. She wants the dates and times these photos where taken? Okay then...

This photo was taken on Nov 28, 2007 at 1:58 pm park across the street from Robert McGraths house at 18 West 5th Street, Oswego, NY 13126. Phone Number 315 - 343 - 5788. 

This first photo shows Robert McGrath walking to his new house across from his old house on West 5th Street. He had just left City Hall in a City Engineer's car. Taken on: 04.03.2012 - time; 10:23am.

This photo was taken on: 01.24.2011. Time 12:37 pm.

Same car still sitting there: 01:24.2011 - time 1:40 pm over an hour and McGrath still hasn't come out of the house.

This photo was taken on 10.25.2010 at 11:42 am. Just random photos of different days and McGrath is at home getting paid for it.

McGrath was denied a variance to build his two story house. But McGrath went a head and built it anyway, ruining his neighbors view of the lake.

Now when you build a house your suppose to file a site plan, and your to get it approve by the Zoning Board before you start building. You must buy a building permit and display. And these building permits can be expensive and the money goes into the city treasury to help pay city bills, and keep property taxes down. But McGrath didn't do this so the tax payers got burned again by McGrath.

 Date photo was taken: 04.02.2012, Time 10:40 am. (:Location "Forks of the Road", in the City of Oswego. Now look at those stone planters. They are city property, paid for by the tax payers, if you look at the photo below you will see two of those city owned planters in front of McGraths joint. And Rita Tickle says that: "There is no proof of anything in those planters."

Hey Rita! You got to get off your fat ass and investigate this before you can say anything about it.

Date photo was taken: 11.17.2011, 9:32 am. Location, McGraths bar, West Second, and Bridge Street, two planters sitting next to it. Suppose to be on the corners. There is this person who knows Robert McGrath well, McGrath went over to a bar on the Eastside of Oswego, and offered a woman drugs for sex. But the woman turned him down. She quiped; "No amount of drugs or money would ever get to go to bed with McGrath, he's disgusting." And that son-of-a-bitch-McGrath when you call the Oswego Engineers Office where McGrath is suppose to work, and ask what time McGrath goes to work the person on the other end of the phone will tell you 6:30 am. WHAT? Like hell he does! McGrath is down at his bar but getting paid by the City of Oswego.

And here is the answer Rita Tickle gave about McGrath and the city vehicle.

This is an e-mail from Rita Tickle

I addressed your concern about Mr. McGrath’s alleged use of a “city staff car for personal use,” however I did not address your concern about Mr. McGrath’s alleged theft of city planners for in front of his business. This is not a personnel matter. If you believe a crime has taken place you should report it as such.

Rita Tickle

Personnel Director
City of Oswego

(Like hell you did Tickle! You where ask if you are going to investigate McGrath and you come up with some sort of garbage answer?) What are you doing sleeping with him? McGraths married you know?)

Tickle did this last time - McGrath got arrested and charged with arson, but did nothing...Other photos will be posted here in the future.

And here we have Mary Vanouse!

Mary Vanouse-Director of Community Development

20 West Oneida Street, 3rd Floor

Oswego, New York 13126

Vanouse what you did to that start up business is CRIMINAL! You killed that business Vanouse before it had a chance to prosper and took away the business owners lively hood.

Fax: 315-342-8231
Hours: 9 AM - 5 PM Monday thru Friday
E-mail Address: mvanouse@oswegony.org

Phone: 315-343-3795

Mary Vanouse was given a completed Micro-Enterprise Application, along with a business plan for it, and a DBA (Business Certificate) that was filed with the Oswego County Clerks Office.

Note: That business plan took weeks to develop. Vanouse was told when she was handed the material to please review it immediatelly so if there was a problem with it - it could be corrected. Vanouse did not review the application until 45 days later. The business was time sensitive, so by when Vanouse got around to reviewing the application it was just to late, and the jobs it would have created lost!

But it wasn't just one business Vanouse ruined, but two! One was called "Solar Wind Energies". It had to do with the assembly of solar panels, water turbines, and wind turbines (green energy products) produced right in Oswego, NY,  Along with research and development of new types of batteries and "pulse magnets - sound vibration tubes - that generated electricity". The future of Oswego lost because of one woman! Mary Vanouse. 

Vanouse was given that material on the 8th of one month - and never reviewed this material until the 24th of the next month. A total of 45 days had passed before Vanouse reveiwed the material but by then it was to late. A critical time period had passed and the business oppurtunity was lost.

Vanouse was told when she received the information to process it immediately to see if there would be a problem with it and contact the business owner so he could have correct it! The first 48 hours where critical, but Vanouse did nothing with it for 45 days. So a perfectly good business was ruined by Vanouse before it even had a chance to start up!

Ask Vanouse about the incident, and she will say that there was something wrong with the credit part of the application and she could not forward it. Well Mary! Thats why you where told to process the Micro-Enterprise Application immediately! So any problems with the application could have been corrected. Instead of reviewing the information within the first 48 hours of recieving it - you waited 45 days. And there was repeated calls to your office asking about applications status. But you never returned any of the calls, you where no where to be found.

There where other options open to the owner of the business. He could have gone to the bank, he had backers ready, collateral, GI Bill Business loan guarantee ready. But he could not retrieve his business plan because no one in your office new where it was?

Here's is just one of several e-mail's from the business owner to the financial advisor of the business, it tells how Mary Vanouse is not doing her job :

Hi ***:
I don't think there is anything wrong with approaching banks with your proposal. I don't know what their response will be - banks are notorious for declining start up businesses and of course the credit analysis will be more stringent.
Have you explained to Mary the critical/seasonal nature of getting the biz going before summer is in full swing? When I worked for Syracuse, we used to have loan committee meetings by phone for special projects when we
didn't have enough loans to call everyone together.
Good luck and let me know what happens.

Mike

At 06:33 AM 6/29/** -0700, you wrote:

Hi Mike!
>
>I got thinking, today is day 21. That financing
>proposal decision should not be taking this long.
>The company will definitely make a profit. We both have
>done all that could be done. What I am considering now is...? "I will wait until
>June 30, 0000 (tomorrow, Friday). And if Mary Vanouse
>does not contact me, then after the holiday weekend I
>will go directly to 4 different banks and apply for
>the business loan. "Harbor fest is only 26 days away!"
>It is going to take time to order the merchandise, get
>the software installed in the computer plus other
>things. And because of the delays in the program
>administered by Mary Vanouse. I really don't know if
>I'll be able to have a place to do business!
Mike you know as well as I do that this is no way to
>run that program (Micro Enterprise) in Oswego. The way
>this program is done has to be changed.

According to Mary Vanouse's secretary, I was informed that they waite until they have several business proposal before
>they meet. This is wrong. (But I didn't say that to
>her.) I've been quite! Don't want to "rock the boat".
>Anyway, one bank I talked to here in Oswego has what's
>called the "Merchant Program for Credit Cards." Same
>rates I assume as the other system. This program sends
>the credit cards account direct to your bank. I'm
>going to go with this. Well that's about it. Let me know what you think?