During the February Meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) ANC8A Meeting, a motion was made to ban Tom Donohue a 9 year resident of Ward 8 and small business owner after Tom attempted to discuss matters the ANC has refused to address such as, ANC Commissioner Holly Muhammad’s use of fellow ANC8A Commissioner Barbara Clark’s physical address. (Ms. Clark owns two properties in Ward 8) Ms. Muhammad uses Ms. Clark’s address as her own in order to be able to run for public office. After nearly ten attempts to serve a civil complaint upon Ms. Muhammad three attempts by MPD and seven attempts by a private process server (one during a regular meeting of the ANC) All attempts failed as Ms. Muhammad was not home. The process server in court documents swore that neighbors told them that no one by that name even lives there. (see attached affidavits)
During the February 28, 2023 Meet up with Mendelson, Phil Mendelson Chairman of Washington DC City Council said “An ANC does not have the right to ban somebody”
Reasoning for the commission wanting to ban Donohue is because Donohue has had multiple matters including whether Muhammad lives where she does along with quarterly financial reports for two years not being signed or discussed during any ANC Meetings from being submittted to the ANC. Donohue has submitted multiple FOIA requests to the OANC and to Chairwoman White of which have been ignored. Tom has proof that two very different QFR for same periods of time have been submitted to the OANC none of which show any signatures and there is no evidence of any minutues taken of any of these meetings to show that the QFR were brought before the commission during an open meeting for approval.
With Donohue attempting to bring these matters before via the chat messaging feature of Zoom, Commissioners proceeded to make a motion to Ban Donohue from futyure meetings. Chairwoman White moved away from. A FOIA request along with a sunpoena from Superior Court have not resulted in a recording from the ANC being turned over to Tom Donohue as of the time of publishing.
