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0. THE NEW RACKET HAS A NAME — AND ITS NAME IS SURPLUS
FoFo. The Mayor of the City of Biloxi. The mofo. The mummy. The Biden of Biloxi. The Mummy Cartel mafioso boss with a flag pin and a gavel and a Consent Agenda full of words that mean nothing to anyone who is not paying close attention.
Dear reader, let the undersigned introduce you, on the front page, to the racket the undersigned has been watching this Mayor and his Council operate — in slow motion, in plain sight, in the seven-letter euphemism the City of Biloxi prefers to the more accurate five-letter word for what it is actually doing.
The euphemism is surplus.
The five-letter word is theft.
The Mayor calls it surplus. The Council calls it surplus. The City Attorney calls it surplus. The press release will call it surplus. The closing documents will call it surplus.
It is not surplus.
It is a 1.5-acre public park with ballfields, batting cages, lighting, restrooms, a concession stand, and a playground — donated to the City of Biloxi by the Kuhn family of 1896 with two words written in plain English on the recorded subdivision plat: Public Ground.
Tonight, in the Consent Agenda — the agenda where Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich, Jr. parks the things he does not want anyone to look at — FoFo voted to sell that park. He buried it as Item 5E. He did not name the park in the agenda. He cited two statutes the Mayor knows do not honestly apply. He refused to advertise it for competitive bidding. He told no one who the buyer is. He scheduled the vote at 1:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday.
This is not a press release the undersigned is writing, dear reader. This is an indictment — in the older, civic, lower-case sense of the word.
The new Mummy Cartel racket has a name. It is surplus. It runs through the Consent Agenda. It is operated by the Mayor of Biloxi. The buyer, when revealed, will trace to the casino corridor rising six blocks south of the park. The freshman councilman of Ward 1 has already locked the zoning rules into place to make sure the buyer's deal pencils. The Burger King who built the runway for this exact maneuver in 2022 has been quietly registering mayoral campaign domains since December.
And the arrogance, dear reader, runs in the family.
The husband — Samuel Poulos, son of forty-four-year Planning Commissioner Jimmy Poulos, the family that has had its hands on Biloxi zoning since the Carter administration — got on Facebook and told a federal civil-rights co-plaintiff to leave our city. The wife — Joanne Poulos — got on Facebook Messenger and told a Black recipient not to forget your place in this world.
One Poulos for the white outsider. One Poulos for the Black neighbor. A perfectly coordinated husband-and-wife small-business operation in Jim-Crow civics, conducted on the open internet, on the same week the Mayor was quietly burying a public park in the Consent Agenda. The husband does the get-out-of-town threat. The wife does the know-your-place threat. Division of labor. Clean handoff. The kind of efficiency you only get when the rot has had two generations to settle in.
This is not a coincidence, dear reader. This is the temperament of the racket. The arrogance is the giveaway. And the arrogance, like the surplus, has become a family enterprise.
Mr. Mayor: the undersigned sees you. Sit down. Class is in session.
I. PUBLIC GROUND
On the seventh of September, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-six, a Biloxi widow named Sarah Kuhn — together with several other members of the Kuhn family — sat down with a surveyor and recorded a subdivision plat in the Harrison County Chancery Clerk's office.
The plat divided the family's land into ordinary residential lots — the kind of small parcels a growing Gulf Coast town swallowed up by the dozen in the 1890s. Most of the lots were marked for sale. Most of the lots became, over the next century, what they were intended to become: houses, yards, driveways, mailboxes, the everyday infrastructure of an American neighborhood.
But on that 1896 plat, one parcel was different.
That parcel was set apart from the surrounding lots, drawn separately, and labeled in plain English with two words. Two words the surveyor wrote with the deliberate care of a man recording a promise on behalf of a family that knew exactly what it was doing.
Public Ground.
Not for sale. Not for division. Not for development. Not for industrial repurposing. Not for the convenience of a future municipal administration that would, one hundred and thirty years later, decide it would prefer the parcel be something else.
Public Ground.
The Kuhn family did not just leave the parcel out of the subdivision. They affirmatively donated it to the City of Biloxi, with the dedication memorialized on the recorded plat and reinforced in the conveyance. The City accepted it. The City held it. The City — whether it remembers this or not — held it in trust.
By 1927 — twenty-six years after Theodore Roosevelt founded the National Park Service, eleven years before Biloxi installed its first traffic signal, three decades before the federal Civil Rights Act — the Public Ground was already known by a different name. The locals called it the Rose Street Baseball Park. A 1927 real estate listing referenced it. Children were already playing on it. They have not stopped.
In 1972, the Biloxi City Council renamed Rose Street to Rosetti Street to honor Police Chief Louis A. Rosetti. The park kept playing host to children regardless. By the time the City got around to giving the parcel its current name — D'Anella Park — the Kuhn dedication was already well into its second century of public service.
Today, the City of Biloxi's own official website (biloxi.ms.us/residents/parks-recreation/parks/danella/) describes D'Anella Park, in the City's own marketing copy, as follows:
"This park is located on the east side of the city and provides numerous amenities for the public to enjoy."
The City's own list of amenities at D'Anella Park, dear reader, on the City's own website, today:
- Ballfields
- Batting cages
- Concession stand
- Fenced area
- Lighted area
- Restrooms
- Playground
Read that list again. Then read the next sentence.
Tonight, the City voted to declare that park "surplus."
II. ITEM 5E
The Mayor of the City of Biloxi, Andrew "FoFo" Gilich, Jr. — the Mummy Cartel mafioso boss, the Biden of Biloxi — did not place the disposition of D'Anella Park on the policy agenda for the City Council meeting of Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
He did not place it on the ordinances agenda.
He did not list it under a section heading that would alert the public — the public to whom the Kuhn family donated the land in 1896 — that anything unusual was about to happen.
He listed it on the Consent Agenda.
For the benefit of the reader unfamiliar with municipal parliamentary procedure: a consent agenda is the place where routine, non-controversial items are bundled together and passed in a single combined vote, typically without individual discussion or debate. The consent agenda is where the City buys ten in-vehicle data terminals from Howard Technology Solutions for $31,150. The consent agenda is where the Fire Department applies for an HSGP grant for a tow vehicle. The consent agenda is where a neighbor named Brandy Waltman leases a portion of Tax Parcel No. 1410K-03-108.000 at 128 Rue Magnolia for storage.
The consent agenda is where you put things you do not want anybody to look at.
This is where Mayor Gilich put the disposition of D'Anella Park.
Item 5E. Page 4 of the agenda. Buried between the Mercy Cross Storage Area fence demolition (Item 5D) and the Brandy Waltman lease at 128 Rue Magnolia (Item 5F).
Here is the full text of Item 5E. The undersigned reproduces it verbatim, because the verbatim text is the entire crime:
5E. Resolution declaring real property to be surplus and authorizing the sale thereof pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. §21-17-1(2)(a) and §57-7-1 (1972), as amended, and for related purposes. Introduced by Mayor A.M. Gilich, Jr.
Read it again, dear reader.
Read it three times.
The undersigned will wait.
Now answer this question: Where, in those thirty-three words, does it say D'Anella Park?
Where does it say 380 Bonner Drive?
Where does it say 1.5 acres?
Where does it say the playground?
Where does it say the Kuhn family's 1896 dedication?
Where does it say the ballfields where the children of Ward 1 will be the day after the vote, looking around for the batting cages?
It does not. Item 5E says "real property." Twelve letters. The most concealing phrase in the English language when it appears on a public agenda. Twelve letters that do every single thing a fraud-on-the-public agenda item is designed to do, with the maximum efficiency of plausible deniability.
This is not a typographical economy. This is not a busy clerk's shorthand. This is concealment in twelve letters, on the official record, signed by the Mayor of the City of Biloxi, voted into a consent-agenda bundle with a fence-demolition contract and a tow-vehicle grant.
If the Kuhn family of 1896 could read English in 2026, they would understand it perfectly.
III. THE PINCER
The undersigned wishes to be very clear with the reader: Item 5E is half of a coordinated maneuver. The other half, on the same agenda, is Item 4F.
4F. Ordinance to approve a Text Amendment to the Land Development Ordinance, amending Use Table 23-4-1(b) and Section 23-4-3(d)(10)e to remove the authorization of Short-Term Rentals within Multi-Family Zoning Districts. Case No. 26-013.3, City of Biloxi. Introduced by Councilmember Wayne Gray. First reading on April 7, 2026.
Item 4F was Wayne Gray's. Item 5E was the Mayor's.
The two items, voted on the same evening in the same chambers under the same gavel, accomplish a single coordinated objective. Allow the undersigned to lay it out for the reader as a syllogism:
- D'Anella Park is currently zoned RS-5 (Single-Family Residential, High Density). RS-5 is the City's strictest single-family district — minimum 5,000 square feet per lot, maximum 35 feet height, no multifamily, no short-term rentals.
- Almost all property south of D'Anella Park, all the way down to Howard Avenue, is also RS-5 — neighbor after neighbor, lot after lot, all the way to the water. This is a single-family neighborhood. It has been a single-family neighborhood since the federal income tax was a new idea.
- South of Howard Avenue — directly south of D'Anella Park — are the planned new sites for the Tullis Casino and the Tivoli Casino. The Tullis project is the one Council President Kenny Glavan personally moved to convey to Tullis Gardens Hotel, LLC by Resolution 862-22 on November 22, 2022. The Tivoli is the one Mayor Gilich personally introduced for a pier-lease resolution on December 23, 2025, which passed 5-2.
- The new casinos require labor housing. Lots of it. Cheap, long-term, near-the-floor labor housing — the kind a hotel-casino's housekeeping, food-service, and groundskeeping departments need to function on a Gulf Coast labor market that does not have it.
- Under the current ordinance, RM-20 and RM-30 zoning districts (Multi-Family Residential) permit Short-Term Rentals as a conditional use. That is the current rule. That is what the City has lived under for years.
- Item 4F (Wayne Gray) strips Short-Term Rentals from RM-20 and RM-30 across the entire City. Effective on second reading — tonight — any new construction in those districts can only be used for long-term residential. Not Airbnb. Not vacation rental. Not the high-margin short-stay product. Long-term housing. Workforce housing. Casino-labor housing.
- Item 5E (Mayor Gilich) declares "real property" surplus and authorizes its sale. Once the buyer takes title, the buyer will need to seek rezoning of the parcel from RS-5 to a multi-family classification (likely RM-30) to develop it at the density that makes the deal pencil. That rezoning is separate from tonight's vote — but it is the next inevitable step. And by the time it arrives at the Planning Commission, the City will already have stripped the only competing use — short-term rentals — that would have inflated the value of competing parcels and priced out the eventual buyer.
The two items are individually defensible-sounding. Wayne Gray will tell you Item 4F is about "neighborhood character." Mayor Gilich will tell you Item 5E is about "fiscal responsibility."
The combination accomplishes one single result: convert the only neighborhood park in the area into long-term workforce housing, lock out short-term-rental competition, and walk the parcel through the rezoning pipeline without ever paying market price for what is in fact a 1.5-acre buildable site three blocks from a casino.
That eventual buyer, when revealed, will need to be examined.
Receipts in Part II.
IV. THE NARROW BAN
The undersigned now brings to the reader's attention three companion items on the same April 21 agenda — Items 4H, 4I, and 4J — because they are the proof that the ban Wayne Gray introduced was drafted to land on everyone except a particular set of parcels in his own ward.
4H. Resolution granting Conditional Use approval, to authorize an existing duplex, to be utilized as Short-Term Rentals upon a property site situated in an LB Limited Business zone, and identified by municipal address 238 Rodenberg Avenue A & B. Case No. 26-019, Brett Payne on behalf of Hagos Investment 242, LLC. Submitted by the Planning Commission. Ward 1.
4I. Resolution granting Conditional Use approval, to authorize an existing duplex, to be utilized as Short-Term Rentals upon a property site situated in an LB Limited Business zone, and identified by municipal address 242 Rodenberg Avenue A & B. Case No. 26-020, Brett Payne on behalf of Hagos Investment 242, LLC. Submitted by the Planning Commission. Ward 1.
4J. Resolution granting Conditional Use approval, to authorize an existing duplex, to be utilized as Short-Term Rentals upon a property site situated in an LB Limited Business zone, and identified by municipal address 246 Rodenberg Avenue A & B. Case No. 26-021, Brett Payne on behalf of Hagos Investment 242, LLC. Submitted by the Planning Commission. Ward 1.
Read those three items together with Item 4F. Then read them again, paying particular attention to the zoning districts involved.
The Council, on the same evening, was asked to:
| Action | Zoning district | Beneficiary | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Item 4F | Strip STR authorization from Multi-Family Zoning Districts citywide (Wayne Gray) | RM-20 / RM-30 | Casino developers (long-term-only labor housing) |
| Item 4H | Grant STR conditional use to Hagos Investment 242, LLC at 238 Rodenberg Ave | LB Limited Business | Hagos Investment 242, LLC |
| Item 4I | Grant STR conditional use to Hagos Investment 242, LLC at 242 Rodenberg Ave | LB Limited Business | Hagos Investment 242, LLC |
| Item 4J | Grant STR conditional use to Hagos Investment 242, LLC at 246 Rodenberg Ave | LB Limited Business | Hagos Investment 242, LLC |
The reader is invited to notice what Wayne Gray noticed when he drafted his ban.
Item 4F bans Short-Term Rentals in Multi-Family districts only. It does not touch the LB Limited Business district. It does not touch the Single-Family districts. It is a narrowly-drafted prohibition that lands precisely on the future workforce-housing parcels — including, conveniently, a 1.5-acre playground the Council is about to declare surplus on the same evening — while leaving the LB-zoned duplexes on Rodenberg Avenue free to continue their short-term-rental operations.
That LB-zoned exemption is not an accident. It is the architecture. The Hagos Investment 242, LLC parcels at 238, 242, and 246 Rodenberg Avenue do not merely happen to fall outside Item 4F's reach. They were drawn outside it.
For the record, Hagos Investment 242, LLC is a California limited liability company, formed April 6, 2023, principal address 1300 N. Johnson Avenue #103, El Cajon, California — Rob Tedros Hagos and Robel Hagos as principal officers. There is no documented connection between the Hagos family and any current Biloxi council member, mayor, or planning appointee in the public records the undersigned has so far reviewed.
That is, in some respects, the most damning fact of all.
This is not a story about Wayne Gray helping a Biloxi friend. This is a story about Wayne Gray drafting a ban on his neighbors that is so narrowly tailored it leaves three California-owned duplexes in his own ward perfectly free to operate exactly the kind of short-term-rental business the ban was sold as targeting. The ban is not about neighborhood character. The ban is about funneling workforce housing to the Multi-Family parcels the rezoning pipeline is about to deliver — and the LB-zoned exemption is the proof of intent.
For now, the reader needs only this: on the face of the agenda, the Council is being asked to ban Short-Term Rentals for the people whose property happens to lie in the zoning district that produces casino labor housing, and to grant exemptions for the people whose property happens to lie in the zoning district that does not.
That is the architecture. That is the tell. That is the consent agenda.
V. THE LAW
The City of Biloxi's lawyers will tell the reader, with the patience that lawyers reserve for laypeople, that all of this is perfectly legal. They will cite Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-1, the general municipal-property statute. They will cite Miss. Code Ann. § 57-7-1, the airport-and-industrial-conveyance statute. They will tell the reader the Mayor has discretion. They will tell the reader the Council has authority. They will tell the reader to trust the process.
The undersigned, equally patiently, would like the reader to consider what those statutes actually require.
A. The False Surplus Predicate
Dear reader, before the undersigned takes you through the statutes, permit a single observation about the shape of the thing in front of us.
The Billables of Biloxi and the Mummy Cartel are attacking again. Same playbook. Same cast. Same three ingredients the Biloxi reader now recognizes on sight: a casino, public officials, and the quiet embezzlement of public property into private hands by way of procedurally-dressed paperwork.
The venue changes. The parcel changes. The consulting attorney sometimes changes. The Mayor, for now, does not. The Council President and the freshman councilman trade seats at the table but not roles. The buyer — always discreet, always pre-arranged, always the eventual surprise the records are supposed to make feel like a coincidence — waits offstage until the closing, which takes place out of the public eye because the vote that delivered the parcel was, by design, obfuscated on the agenda.
Same story. Different parcel. Different century, even, if you count what the Kuhn family thought they were doing in 1896.
Now — the statutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-1(3) — the surplus-disposition track Item 5E invokes — requires the governing authority of the municipality to "find and determine by resolution duly and lawfully adopted and spread upon the minutes that municipally owned real property is not used for municipal purposes and therefore surplus."
Read the predicate again. "Not used for municipal purposes."
Then read the City's own description of D'Anella Park, on the City's own website, in the City's own marketing copy, as quoted earlier: ballfields, batting cages, concession stand, fenced area, lighted area, restrooms, playground. "Numerous amenities for the public to enjoy."
The City pays for the lighting bill at D'Anella Park. The City pays for the plumbing in the restrooms. The City pays for the maintenance of the ballfields. The City pays for the upkeep of the playground. The City advertises the park to its own residents as a place to visit and use.
Tonight, the City must vote — by resolution, on the minutes, in writing — that the park "is not used for municipal purposes."
That is not a discretionary policy judgment entitled to judicial deference. That is a knowingly false official record. It is the kind of fact-finding that, in any other context, the Mississippi Code calls falsification by an officer of an official record under Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-25.
The City of Biloxi cannot honestly find what its own website refutes.
B. The 1896 Dedication and the Yazoo City Trust
The Mississippi Supreme Court answered this question in 1958 — sixty-eight years before tonight — in Board of Mayor and Aldermen of Yazoo City v. Wilson, 232 Miss. 435, 99 So. 2d 674 (Miss. 1958). The holding is short. The undersigned reproduces it verbatim, because the verbatim text is the entire answer to tonight's vote:
And:
The 1896 Kuhn-Estate dedication is the "contract of dedication." The City of Biloxi is the trustee. Selling a 130-year-old neighborhood park to a yet-unnamed buyer for casino-adjacent multi-family development is a use "clearly inconsistent" with public-ground dedication.
The Yazoo City court told the City of Biloxi in 1958 that it could not do what the City of Biloxi proposes to do tonight. That holding has never been overturned. It is binding Mississippi Supreme Court precedent. It applies to D'Anella Park the moment the dedication evidence is on the record — and the dedication evidence has been on the record since September 7, 1896.
C. Spot Zoning — The City's Own Ordinance Bans This
But assume, dear reader, just for the sake of argument, that the City somehow walks past the Yazoo City precedent. Assume the eventual buyer takes title. Assume the rezoning application reaches the Planning Commission.
The buyer will then need RS-5 (single-family) flipped to RM-30 (multi-family). That is the rezoning that makes the deal pencil. That is the Planning Commission vote that turns 1.5 acres of children's playground into a 30-dwelling-unit-per-acre workforce-housing block.
That rezoning is textbook spot zoning under Mississippi Supreme Court precedent.
The Mississippi Supreme Court defined spot zoning, in Thomas v. Board of Supervisors of Panola County, 45 So. 3d 1173 (Miss. 2010) (en banc), as "a small island of relatively intense use surrounded by a sea of less intense use." (45 So. 3d at 1187-88).
D'Anella Park is 1.5 acres surrounded entirely by RS-5 single-family zoning. RM-30 caps at 30 dwelling units per acre and 100 feet of height. RS-5 caps at 5,000-square-foot lots and 35 feet of height. A more textbook island/sea fact pattern is difficult to imagine.
In McKibben v. City of Jackson, 193 So. 2d 741, 744 (Miss. 1967), the Court taught that the "one constant" in spot-zoning ordinances that have been struck down is that they were "designed 'to favor' someone." Tonight's coordinated pincer — strip STR conditional use from Multi-Family districts (Item 4F) plus declare D'Anella surplus (Item 5E) — is direct McKibben evidence. The two votes together tailor the regulatory environment to a single outcome: long-term, multi-family, workforce-only housing on a single rezoned parcel adjacent to two casinos. That is "to favor someone." That is the McKibben constant.
And in McWaters v. City of Biloxi, 591 So. 2d 824, 828-29 (Miss. 1991) — a case the City of Biloxi knows well, because the City of Biloxi was the losing party — the Mississippi Supreme Court held that consistency with the comprehensive plan is dispositive in Biloxi rezoning challenges. The City's Comprehensive Plan and Parks and Recreation Plan inventory D'Anella as an active municipal park. A Future Land Use Map designation for the parcel as multifamily would be a fabrication on its face.
McWaters was decided in this courthouse, against this City, thirty-five years ago. It still binds the City of Biloxi today.
D. The City's Own LDO Already Bans This
If the reader thinks the undersigned is reaching, the City's own Land Development Ordinance — the one Wayne Gray and Mayor Gilich both took an oath to uphold — already prohibits exactly this maneuver in plain English.
LDO § 23-2-4(B)(3)(g) lists, among the substantive criteria the Council must apply when evaluating any rezoning, the prohibition on creating "an isolated zoning district unrelated to adjacent and surrounding zoning districts."
Read that again. The City of Biloxi's own ordinance, drafted by the City of Biloxi's own staff, ratified by the City of Biloxi's own Council, already bans the rezoning of D'Anella Park to RM-30 on the very ground that no abutting parcel is RM-30. There would be no surrounding RM-30 to relate to. The new district would be, by the LDO's own definition, "isolated."
The City of Biloxi is voting tonight, in a consent agenda, to set in motion a rezoning the City of Biloxi has already prohibited itself from approving.
E. The Open Meetings Act
Mississippi's Open Meetings Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 25-41-1 et seq., requires meaningful public notice of the matters to be considered at a public meeting. § 25-41-15 provides that any action taken in violation of the Act may be voided by the courts.
Item 5E says "real property." It does not say D'Anella Park. It does not say Bonner Drive. It does not say playground. It does not say 130-year-old dedication. A citizen who attended tonight's meeting because of the Fire Department grant or the police mobile data terminals would have no reason whatsoever to suspect that Item 5E was the disposition of a neighborhood park.
That is exactly the agenda obfuscation the Open Meetings Act prohibits. That is exactly the void-the-action remedy the Open Meetings Act provides.
F. The Tell — § 57-7-1
Item 5E does not just cite § 21-17-1. It also cites Miss. Code Ann. § 57-7-1 — a statute housed in Title 57 (Planning, Research and Development), Chapter 7, in the chapter framed around airport-lands disposition. Its full title is "Sale or Development of Airport Lands, or Other Lands, for Industrial Purposes." The statute reads more broadly than its chapter title and reaches lands "not needed for airport purposes or for other governmental purposes," permitted to be improved "for industrial and commercial purposes."
The City did not need to cite § 57-7-1. The City had § 21-17-1. The City cited § 57-7-1 because the City needs the airport-and-industrial-conveyance pipeline to convey the park to a private entity for non-public purposes without competitive bidding. The constitutional backstop on that move is Miss. Const. art. 4, § 95, which prohibits donations of municipal property to private parties and constrains below-fair-value transfers absent a clear public purpose. The Mayor of Biloxi has, on the official record, classified a children's playground as an asset susceptible to industrial-and-commercial conveyance. The Constitution of Mississippi has something to say about that.
VI. THE TORCH PASS
The reader will permit the undersigned a brief but important historical interlude.
For the past several years, the public face of the Mummy Cartel's Council operations has been Kenny Glavan, Ward 6 Councilman, Council President, Burger King. Glavan is the federal defendant in two separate civil-rights and antitrust cases. Glavan is the respondent in an active quo warranto proceeding seeking his ouster from office. Glavan was the Council President who personally moved Resolution 862-22 on November 22, 2022 — the unanimous 7-0 vote that handed the City-owned 8-acre Tullis-Toledano parcel via option-to-purchase to Tullis Gardens Hotel, LLC, a Mississippi entity 90% owned by Tennessee businessman Israel "Izzy" Schwartz and 10% owned by his attorney Luke Lenzi, neither of whom has any prior casino experience.
Glavan has been busy lately, in his capacity as Ward 6 Councilman, performing the role of a man getting ready to step back. On April 7, 2026, he abstained from the Retreat retro-amendment vote — the public "I'm out of trouble" gesture. He has been quieter at meetings. He has kept his name off the agenda items that draw the most attention.
The undersigned, however, has the patience to check WHOIS records.
On December 2, 2025, at 04:42:57 UTC, Kenny Glavan registered the domain glavanformayor.com through Cloudflare's privacy-proxy service.
On December 2, 2025, at 04:46:12 UTC — three minutes and fifteen seconds later — Kenny Glavan also registered the domain glavanforbiloxi.com.
Two campaign domains. Same day. Same registrar. Same Cloudflare privacy shield. Three minutes and fifteen seconds apart.
While Glavan was performing retirement, however, the actual succession planning was underway elsewhere. On June 3, 2025, the voters of Ward 1 elected a freshman councilman to fill the seat of George Lawrence — a man named Wayne Gray. Ten months later, Mr. Gray's first major piece of legislation — introduced on April 7, 2026, the very same day Glavan abstained on the Retreat retro vote — was Item 4F, the Short-Term-Rental strip from Multi-Family Zoning Districts. The pincer half. The half that locks the rezone. The undersigned notes, in passing, that Mr. Gray's family connections, his prior business interests, and the alignment between those interests and the rezoning pipeline he is now quarterbacking are matters the undersigned is presently investigating in detail. Full receipts will be published in their own installment when the public-records pulls are complete. We are not yet at the part where we lay out the schematic. We are at the part where we tell Councilman Gray, on the record, that the schematic is being assembled.
Glavan registered glavanformayor.com on December 2, 2025. Wayne Gray introduced Item 4F on April 7, 2026. The Mayor introduced Item 5E for tonight's vote. The dates form a calendar.
Glavan did not retire. Glavan passed the torch.
The Burger King is not done. The Burger King is preparing for the corner office. The freshman councilman is keeping the seat warm.
VII. THE CASINO CHAIN
The reader is owed the specific evidentiary chain that connects all of this to the casino developments rising directly to the south. The undersigned will be brief, because each of the following links is documented elsewhere in this publication's prior reporting, and Part II will tie them together with the specificity the receipts require.
Link 1 — November 22, 2022. Council President Kenny Glavan personally moves Resolution 862-22. Councilman Paul Tisdale seconds. The Council votes 7-0 to convey the City-owned 8-acre Tullis-Toledano parcel to Tullis Gardens Hotel, LLC via option-to-purchase. The LLC is 90% owned by Israel "Izzy" Schwartz of Tennessee and 10% owned by his attorney Luke Lenzi. Neither has prior casino experience. The City conveyed eight acres of public land to a casino-front LLC with no operational history.
Link 2 — December 23, 2025. Mayor Gilich personally introduces the Tivoli pier-lease resolution. The Tivoli developer is Daniel Conwill IV, a former Co-CEO and Head of Investment Banking at Seaport Global Securities, who in 2007 acquired the 32-acre 420 Beach Boulevard site for $40 million. The pier-lease passes 5-2.
Link 3 — Same attorney. Michael F. Cavanaugh simultaneously represents the Tivoli (Biloxi Capital, LLC), RW Development, and South Beach development entities. Same pier-lease template across all three projects. The legal infrastructure of the Biloxi casino corridor flows through one law office.
Link 4 — Tonight, April 21, 2026. Mayor Gilich (who signed Resolution 862-22 in 2022 and introduced the Tivoli pier-lease in 2025) introduces Item 5E to declare D'Anella Park surplus. Wayne Gray (Glavan's successor) introduces Item 4F to strip Short-Term Rentals from Multi-Family Zoning Districts. Together, the two votes turn a 1.5-acre neighborhood park into long-term workforce housing for the casinos two of those Mayor-introduced votes have just made possible.
Link 5 — The buyer of the lot is yet to be revealed. The undersigned has, accordingly, drawn a blank on the page for the buyer's name, to be filled in as the records become public. When the eventual buyer of D'Anella Park is revealed — and we will be watching for it — and that buyer's ownership chain proves to have any documented financial, professional, or family connection to Tullis Gardens Hotel LLC, to the Tivoli development, to Daniel Conwill IV, to Israel Schwartz, to Luke Lenzi, to Michael F. Cavanaugh, or to any current Biloxi council member, mayor, or planning appointee — the article you are now reading becomes Part I.
Part II will write itself.
VIII. A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE POULOS INVESTIGATION
The undersigned interrupts this regularly-scheduled Mummy Cartel programming, dear reader, to update you on a parallel investigation that has been generating, since Saturday's installment, a substantial volume of public correspondence.
The Saturday installment was Leave Our City — the investigation into Samuel Poulos, son of Planning Commissioner Jimmy Poulos, who told a federal civil-rights co-plaintiff to "leave our city," called the undersigned "Frog Face," and through whose family's forty-four-year tenure on the Planning Commission a great deal of Biloxi's zoning history has flowed.
Since Saturday, several members of the public have reached out. The reach-outs have been substantial. They have been specific. They have been receipted. And they have been more than the undersigned can responsibly publish in a single article on a day when the City Council is voting to convert a public park into a casino dormitory.
The undersigned is also, dear reader, traveling this week. International time zones are not kind to Biloxi-municipal-investigation publication cadence. Mr. Poulos will, regrettably for him, need to be patient. The receipts will arrive on the schedule the receipts dictate, not the schedule the Poulos family would prefer.
But two receipts have arrived, dear reader, that the undersigned cannot in good conscience hold for a future installment.
Receipt One — August 20, 2014
The Mississippi Insurance Department's archived enforcement actions show that on August 20, 2014, Samuel Poulos of Mississippi was disciplined by the MID for "demonstrating lack of fitness or trustworthiness."
The penalty: a $10,000.00 fine and one year of probation.
This is separate from the 2020 disorderly-conduct arrest documented in the Saturday article. This is a separate, earlier, regulatory finding by the agency that licenses Mississippi insurance brokers — an agency that has, on the public record, formally found Samuel Poulos to lack the fitness and trustworthiness the State of Mississippi requires of its licensed insurance professionals.
A man whose own state regulator has formally found him to lack fitness and trustworthiness is the man who, eight years later, told a federal civil-rights co-plaintiff to "leave our city."
Source: mid.ms.gov — archived enforcement actions
Receipt Two — A Facebook Messenger Screenshot
The second receipt, dear reader, was forwarded to the undersigned by a member of the public who recently received the following message via Facebook Messenger from a sender identifying on the platform as Joanne Poulos — a name that, the reader will note, shares a surname with the family at the center of last week's investigation:
"I'mma tell you something one time you gonna stop running your mouth and laughing at my daughter and my husband. I promise you you better cut the bullshit right now. Don't forget your place in this world."
— Joanne Poulos, Facebook Messenger, 7:50 PM
The undersigned will let that sentence sit on the page for a moment. Read it twice.
Then read it a third time, dear reader, with the knowledge that the recipient is a Black member of the Biloxi community.
"Don't forget your place in this world" is not a generic insult. When a white sender directs that phrase at a Black recipient, in the United States of America, in Mississippi, in 2026, the phrase carries the explicit historical baggage of Jim Crow "know your place" rhetoric — the foundational verbal weapon of Southern racial caste enforcement, deployed by white households against Black neighbors for the better part of a century. The undersigned does not need to argue that point. The historical record argues it. The phrase argues it. The screenshot argues it.
The Poulos family, dear reader, told a federal civil-rights plaintiff to leave the city.
The Poulos family told a Black neighbor not to forget her place in the world.
Same household. Same week. Same family doctrine.
Mr. Poulos: the patience required is on your side, not ours.
We will be back.
IX. A NOTE ON WHAT MAY COME LATER
A coordinated land-disposition maneuver buried in a consent agenda, executed without naming the parcel, on the same evening as a narrowly-tailored zoning ban that conveniently spares friends and lands on enemies, in a city whose Mayor has previously moved a public-land conveyance to a casino-front LLC — that is a fact pattern experienced public-corruption prosecutors recognize on sight. The undersigned alleges no federal crime today, and explicitly does not allege that any named official has committed a federal predicate. What the undersigned does observe is that if a quid pro quo — a campaign contribution timed to the vote, a future employment promise, an in-kind benefit, a family-business steering, anything of value flowing the wrong direction — were ever uncovered when the eventual buyer of D'Anella Park is publicly identified, the legal architecture for a federal honest-services / Hobbs Act / RICO matrix is already in place in this Circuit. None of that is the fight today. Today's fight is the Mississippi state-law fight — Yazoo City trust doctrine, Open Meetings Act void-the-action, Thomas/McKibben/McWaters spot zoning, the false § 21-17-1 surplus predicate, and the § 95 anti-donation clause. Those are bulletproof on their own. The federal section is what may come later, after the buyer is named, after the records are produced, after the receipts arrive — and after the undersigned has the kind of patient evening with a subpoena machine that the undersigned has, for some time, been looking forward to.
X. A WARNING TO COUNCILMAN GRAY
Former municipal utility contractor · Under investigation
Councilman Gray, the undersigned addresses you directly.
You are ten months into your first term. You took the seat of George Lawrence on June 3, 2025. You are now sponsoring the half of tonight's pincer that locks the rezoning of a 130-year-old children's playground for the benefit of a casino corridor whose principal beneficiaries this publication has documented at length.
The undersigned is, as of this week, actively investigating your background — your family connections, your prior business interests, the alignment between those interests and the legislation you have chosen to introduce in your first ten months in office, and the specific overlap (if any) between your personal financial network and the casino-development network that benefits from your Item 4F. That investigation will be published in its own installment when the public-records pulls are complete. This is not that installment. This is the announcement.
You watched Glavan get federal cases. You watched Mayor Gilich sign Resolution 862-22 in 2022 and the Tivoli pier-lease in 2025. You watched the Burger King register glavanformayor.com through a Cloudflare proxy at four in the morning on December 2nd, 2025. You decided, knowing everything you knew, that the right move for your fourth month in office was to introduce Item 4F — narrowly drafted to land on the Multi-Family parcels destined for casino-labor housing while sparing the LB-zoned duplexes a few blocks away.
That was a choice, Councilman Gray.
You have made it. The undersigned has noted it. The undersigned has time.
XI. CLOSING
The Kuhn family of 1896 did not consult Mayor Gilich before they wrote "Public Ground" on the September 7th plat.
They did not ask Wayne Gray's permission before they donated the parcel to the City.
They did not run their dedication past Kenny Glavan's marketing team or Michael F. Cavanaugh's pier-lease template or the eventual rezoning consultants for the eventual buyer of the eventual subdivision.
They wrote two words on a plat. They handed it to the City. They expected the City — for whatever number of generations God should permit Biloxi to continue — to honor the dedication.
The City honored it for one hundred and thirty years.
Tonight, in a consent-agenda single-line item that does not name the park, the City voted to dishonor it.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, Mayor.
The undersigned has a screenshot of the agenda. The undersigned has the City's own website. The undersigned has Yazoo City v. Wilson, 99 So. 2d 674 (Miss. 1958). The undersigned has Thomas v. Panola County, McKibben v. City of Jackson, McWaters v. City of Biloxi, and the Land Development Ordinance you yourself signed into law. The undersigned has the WHOIS records. The undersigned has the casino chain. The undersigned has the Joanne Poulos screenshot. The undersigned has a Facebook page, a publication, a readership, and the patience of a man with no further need to introduce himself.
The undersigned has six active federal dockets.
The undersigned has time.
Rise and shine, Wayne Gray.
Your turn started today.
This article documents public proceedings, public records, and constitutional analysis. Public officials and the executors of public trusts are proper subjects of public commentary.
The undersigned is represented pro se in: Case 1:25-cv-00178-LG-RPM (S.D. Miss.); Case 1:25-cv-00233-LG-RPM (S.D. Miss.); Case 1:25-cv-00254-LG-RPM (S.D. Miss.); Case 1:26-cv-00069-LG-RPM (S.D. Miss.); Case 1:26-cv-00094-HSO-BWR (S.D. Miss.); and additional federal proceedings.
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"Public Ground." — Kuhn family plat, September 7, 1896
"Real property." — Mayor A.M. Gilich, Jr., Consent Agenda Item 5E, April 21, 2026
Same parcel. Different century. Different words. Same park.