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Trenton council wants Trenton Mayor Tony Mack to intervene on issue of how clerk is paid

By Jenna Pizzi/The Times of Trenton
on November 12, 2013 at 6:50 AM, updated November 12, 2013 at 8:06 AM

TRENTON — City Business Administrator Sam Hutchinson was told he was improperly using federal grant money to pay the salary of a clerk for more than a year, but did nothing to remedy it, according to a letter from city council members.

The letter, sent to Mayor Tony Mack on Oct. 30, says Hutchinson was told by several city employees as early as Oct. 18, 2012 that the clerk, Chikia Robinson, was being paid with Community Development Block Grant funds even though she was not working on projects that were eligible for the grant money.

Robinson was hired on Oct. 9, 2012 and assigned to the Department of Housing and Economic Development, where she was to work on eligible projects, but one day later, Robinson was reassigned to work in the Department of Administration at the direction of Hutchinson, according to the letter obtained by The Times.