There's only one restaurant tenant that could use that space. It's consistent with CA's mission to have vibrant outdoor space. This is a pure judgment call that you spent a LOT of text trying to turn into something malicious. Lakey Boyd is fortunate that you're her Woodward & Bernstein.

I hate the things she did, and the smear campaign she contributed to. Not sure why you’re not also bugged by it, but to each their own, I guess

Sounds like you just hate Boyd and are writing up a complaint, trying to get others to join in the hate. Ridiculous.

This is a false dichotomy. The only choices aren’t to either have the space remain vacant, or to give away the farm. I’m sure there are many restaurants who’d kill to pay a fair rate for arguably the best outdoor dining space the County has to offer

This point was addressed in an Author’s Note at the end of the post:

“The title of this blog may beg the question “Didn’t Lakey Boyd resign as CA President months ago? Why does any of this matter still?”

While Lakey Boyd may no longer be CA President, she is still very much active in public life in the Howard County community. Unfortunately, many of the facts and evidence presented in this blog post have not been shared widely, leaving most Howard County residents gravely misinformed about Boyd’s tenure and abrupt resignation and believing a carefully-crafted false narrative that Lakey Boyd was an innocent martyr who was unfairly pushed by the CA Board.

Additionally, the elections for CA Board and Village Boards are on April 22, 2023, and without the record being set straight on this concerning, high-visibility situation, many CA Residents may otherwise vote for candidates solely based on their stances about Lakey Boyd and the CA Board, without knowing that these stances are misguided and that some of these candidates may be beholden to special interest entities that do not have Columbia’s longterm wellbeing as a priority.

Thus, before the upcoming 2023 CA elections, this series of blog posts will inform Howard County residents of exactly what Lakey Boyd was truly doing as CA President and will vindicate the CA Board members who wrongly had to endure months of character assassination simply for trying to provide oversight of a CA President/CEO who was suspected of catering to special interests at the expense of CA residents.

Even though Ms. Boyd is no longer CA President, the very same special interests and co-opted community members, groups, and media outlets/blogs that fought hard to keep her are continuing to grasp for control of the CA for completely self-interested reasons in new ways with the upcoming election and beyond, and CA residents need to be hyper-vigilant to watch out for that.

It is this Author’s opinion that any CA candidates who have overtly and enthusiastically expressed support for The Rouse Project and/or Lakey Boyd, and who have villainized community members for trying to shine a light on Lakey Boyd’s potentially unethical actions as CA President, should be considered with extreme skepticism.”

You also just created this account 2 hours ago. Clear sock puppet dummy account from someone in the HoCo establishment

Sherman May mean well, and he’s certainly been around for a long time, but he has consistently supported politicians that have been very detrimental to the black community, and does not seem to care when this is pointed out to him.

The rest of your statement is baseless

That tenant sure is getting great use out of the "under-valued" "open space". I wish CA had held a harder line and that little pier was even more vacant and dead than it is right now! I also hope the new CA President works even harder to price CA property in a way that discourages its use. I'm sure everyone is glad Clyde's is gone and the building is dark.

Keep fighting the good fight, Jake! We're lucky to have you.

She resigned so who cares at this point?

I agree CA residents should get more for their fees, which is why Lakey Boyd pissing away millions of dollars of potential revenue doesn’t help much. But I disagree with your assessment, and think it was much of the local media narrative that misunderstands the Board’s role. It is absolutely the Board’s role to provide oversight over the hired President, yet this was unfairly characterized as “Micro-management”

>But calling out people in positions of authority for gross corruption and abuses of power (what I do) is accountability, not “bullying”.

Is that why you, a cisgender, heterosexual white man, have such a long, documented history of contempt and disrespect toward women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people when they don't fully toe your political line?

As one example of many, this is you, telling Sherman Howell, an 80-year-old Black Columbia resident and NAACP member with a decades-long resume of civil rights activism including marching with John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 - that he doesn't care about black lives. The level of pathological self-importance required to say such an absurd thing to a man with Mr. Howell's background is off the charts.

https://twitter.com/jake_burdett/status/1583704126428688384?s=20

Maybe you're right. You're not a bully. You're an asshole.

The Board also demonstrated they didn’t understand their roles. The point is CA is a nightmare that provides little value for the fees we pay.

But again, the Board was legally not allowed to talk about this stuff, due to it being a personnel issue. The CA attorney works for CA STAFF, like Lakey Boyd, and so it is not uncommon for Boards to get outside legal counsel. Bottom line is Lakey likely would’ve cost the CA millions in the long run, so getting an Attorney to help put an end to the chaos was the harm reduction approach IMO

Over 50, too many to name, but you can check for yourself here https://www.facebook.com/100070770294295/posts/pfbid02dYthwWX9kEu792vMfnJu8Yx4hme8yr7677KbfE3kRC3pzRzXGXqE44Jmry94E8EHl/?mibextid=cr9u03

I’m suggesting the Board has not been transparent. I also think it’s garbage that the Board used our CPRA fees to fund outside counsel to address their ethical issues.

What are the community groups on Facebook?

Are you suggesting these documents are falsified, or the math calculations are incorrect?

Did you attend the open meetings? Because all I saw were a bunch of unqualified yokels who should not be leading out community.

Like shooting down the idea of revisiting the town's strategic plan in the wake of COVID? One of the dumbest fucking things I ever heard coming out of board's mouth was "the strategic plan is the strategic plan." That statement showed me that a number of these board members have no vision, are out of touch and are unqualified to lead in any type of executive capacity.

I’ve shared here, everywhere on Facebook, to several community groups, and I think it may get published in a more “legitimate” outlet soon

If you are coordinating with him, I don’t trust the information. What other groups did you reach out to share the information? I’d like to see who else supports this analysis.

I know you are trying to be thorough and cover your bases, but um... yeah, no one's reading all of that - especially since you've done nothing in your introduction to provide a compelling reason to stay.

"This is the first part in an 8 article series..." JFC.

Again, it’s not my place to disclose people’s identities without permission, and there are very legitimate reasons why people would be scared to blow the whistle, because they know how whistleblowers tend to get treated (as is happening to me now, for example). All of these documents and the facts reported in the blog are legitimate, it sounds like you’re just reaching for an excuse to ignore it. I’m not working for anyone, I wrote a guest blog post…

I was removed from the Hickory Ridge Candidate Forum last night for… daring to post this blog in the chat! Is Hickory Ridge Village defending Lakey’s reputation?

Never heard of it, will give it a shot, thanks!!

Appreciate it! Currently in the process of getting it all done

If the case against Lakey were as strong as you purport, those community members wouldn't fear sticking their necks out.

If you weren't working (for free, apparently) for a private, for-profit corporation dedicated to "transparency," your unwillingness to discuss the source of this information and their motivations would make more sense. Transparency for thee but not for me, right? (That's the CA board's credo after holding 15 closed meetings--without proper notification--over the last 10 months.)

Also, your bullying is well known in Howard County and on the eastern shore. But I understand that you need to tell yourself stories of righteousness to justify your behavior. Why did you get kicked out of the Hickory Ridge Village Board meeting the other night?