Exhibit 12 Sister Jane Gerety: “…we should pass the hat immediately.”

Exhibit 12 Tab 12 Sr. Jane Gerety: “…we should pass the hat immediately.”

Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall filed Exhibit 12 along with 27 others in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County on July 11, 2014. Judge Schwall responded with a ruling that permitted attorneys for Manny Fialkow to move toward the dispossession of the property in question, the Peachtree-Pine Center. Also the Judge affirmed his Special Masters’ ruling that asserted that defendants Fialkow, Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement face eight claims that need the decision of a jury. The following four e-mails were written and sent on November 12, 2008. They show the collaboration among TEAM GOLIATH members, the Nun-run Mercy Housing, Inc., The City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and Emory Health Care, Inc. Steve Hall entitles Exhibit 12, “Sister Gerety email to Diane Leavesley.” I have quoted the four emails verbatim in the order they were written.

“From: Gerety, Sister Jane
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:14 AM
To: Julie Gould
Subject: call

Julie,
I got your voice mail. Thanks. I wanted to talk to you about the possibility of foreclosure on the Peachtree and Pine property in Atlanta. I’ve talked with Pete (Walker) and with others representing the city and believe that foreclosing is what we should do. It needs to be part of a plan to move the men living in the shelter to other facilities where there are supportive services and a proposal from Mercy Housing for affordable housing on the site. There may be some negative publicity, but I think that can be mitigated by the plan and the proposal. Moving the men is very doable and represents a philosophy that is much more enlightened than warehousing them in the present facility. In addition, if Mercy Housing can accomplish this, I believe we will be in the debt of the city, the business community and the foundations. Horace Sibley, who chairs the Mayor’s commission to end homelessness, told me that if we can get this accomplished, we should pass the hat immediately.

That’s the gist of what I wanted to talk about, but if you get a chance, and I will fill in more details.
Safe travels,
Sr. Jane”

Handwritten notes by Diane Leavesley, Head of Mercy Loan, Inc. during a conference call follow, ”Anita’s vision meets people where they are; Horace wants to get people out of homelessness.” “1 by 1 her funding sources have dried up; a proposal to rehab the building to maintain the shelter w/SRO hsg above.” “Foreclose sensitively & delicately; Horace has a plan to move men.”

Note: Diane Leavesley’s notes read that Anita meets people where they are. That is true; however, her note implies that nothing but sheltering takes place. Every day of the year for 17 years the Peachtree Pine facility has provided, intake and assessment, case management, three recovery meetings each week, GED classes, basic computer-skilled classes, computer lab: job search, resume building, COMPASS access, e-mail access, clothing closet, weight room, resident volunteer training and housing, transitional housing program, art studio, roof-top vegetable garden and a monthly health clinic. Sister used TEAM GOLIATH’s favorite term, “warehousing.”

There remain monolithic differences between Horace Sibley, Debi Starnes and the Task Force. The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. has fed, sheltered, clothed and housed hundreds for years while Horace Sibley and Debi Starnes worked feverishly to crush every move of the Atlanta Task Force. Neither Horace nor Debi nor United Way nor the City has ever had a plan to house the men at Peachtree-Pine. Their plan consists solely of disappearing people unsightly in their kin.

Don’t miss Good Sister Jane’s exclaiming with glee that the City, the business community and the foundations will all owe the Nun-run Mercy Housing, Inc. if these sisters, married to Jesus, “can help to accomplish this” the shutting down of  a shelter for homeless people.   Sister Jane Gerety did more than pass the hat. At the time of these collaborations the Nun-run St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta was going belly up. That defunct disaster got bailed out by none other than conspirator Emory Health Care, Inc. I look at Emory’s new sign often. Today it is Emory St. Joseph. Pass the hat, please.

Last night, September 2-3, 2014, forty-two children with their mothers spent the night on mats at Peachtree and Pine. Calls from well-wishers and do-gooders alert us that we are to be evicted soon We’ve received these calls for 5 years. Some are TEAM GOLIATH pranksters; some care that homeless people will be left at the mercy of United Way. Come now BEFORE the Court closes the doors. Come now before Emory swallows the place. Come before Manny Ahab steals Naboth’s vineyard. Why wait United Way? Why wait Fulton County Commissioners? Why wait urban and suburban churches? Why wait Synagogues and Mosques? Why wait travelers aid? Why wait to reopen, Gateway? We welcome you all. You come and succor the 100 perishing ones. Please come, Sisters of Mercy!

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
September 3, 2014