I received this document this morning regarding Onzelo Marcum, a police officer in League City. After carefully reading the presented document it does appear that there are infractions of the Code of Conduct, City Personnel Policies. Document

The documents also indicate that the Human Resources manager allowed Mr. Marcum to prepare a hiring procedure policy for Mr. Shults's assistant, without the permission or knowledge of the former City Administrator, Chuck Pinto.

This begs the question of why does a police officer have the authority to define a city hiring procedure?  Further, the question, does our Mayor feel indebted to Onzelo Marcum for being his campaign manager and consultant?  According to the enclosed document, Mr. Shults paid Mr. Marcum's company (Co-Venture) more than $12,000.00 during and since the Mayor’s successful campaign.

This may be a conflict of interest with Mr. Marcum's political consulting company working to elect a mayor for the City that he works for and under this elected Mayor who paid for his services.  Once again this begs the question of does Mr. Marcum receive special attention?  Does Mr. Markum now have undue influence in the executive branch of League City government when he is clearly a rank in file policemen?

I hope our city councilmembers would not let any accusations of violations of League City employment policies and ordinances pass across their desks without a careful investigation.

Thank you,

Elaine Kosty