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But will that restructuring include the five or so members of the Trapp family? While Trapp may not be a "nepo baby" he has employed several relatives and he has no apologies for it. According to him, you need people you can trust - but even his family can get the chopping block, like Trapp's own father and former employee.
Jules Vasquez:
"Maybe a year ago, one of your PUP critics the good Mr Vaughn Gill said, Trapp is going down and at that time you were having issues with your father, you had to suspend your father."
Earl Trapp, Mayor, SISE
"Terminate."
Jules Vasquez:
"But it came to my attention then you have about four of your family members employed in the council. You have your son, you have your pa, you have your nephew. More than four actually."
Earl Trapp, Mayor, SISE
"No, my dad got terminated."
Jules Vasquez:
"Terminate your dad but you hired somebody else after you did that. Is that nepotism? You have a large number of family members employed at your town hall."
Earl Trapp, Mayor, SISE
"I want you to convert that to percent. 5 out of 225, what's the percent?"
Jules Vasquez:
"About 2%."
Earl Trapp, Mayor, SISE
"Less than that. In any organization, you need loyal people to work along with you. Look at what happened two weeks ago when I demoted office at the end of February. The following day, the administrator went and closed down operations. How could you close operations when we are indebted to the people in terms of providing services to them. How could you leave garbage out there for even two days, and it's already smelling. Come on, that makes no sense. If I didn't have my nephew in there, those operations would have closed, and if I was the dormant leader, it would have been worse."
Jules Vasquez:
"So your nephew is the one who held the line when the administrator."
Earl Trapp, Mayor, SISE
"Yes, he told the administrator plain, you could say what you want, guys, let's go work. And he did what he had to do. He had his employees there and they followed him and they went. They did the work. Thereafter the other guys followed and then the administrator lied again, to God, because he was just telling them he wanted he wanted to take an inventory. If you want an inventory, you check with the accountant, she have the inventory of everything in this place."
