City Administrator Jerry Reed: 2 Social Security Numbers, Falsified Resume, Drained Church of Thousands

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City Administrator Jerry Reed: 2 for Him, None for You

Falsified City Application, Used 2 Social Security Numbers

WF Church: Reed Stole Thousands of Dollars

DAVID KLINE
The Venus Voice
david@thevenusvoice.com

VENUS – City Administrator Jerry Reed is a busy man. A man with this many skeletons in his closet must need a lot of body bags by now.

Documents obtained through open records requests show that not only did he falsify his application to the City of Venus, but also that he used a different Social Security Number in several applications to the City of Fort Worth in 2003.

In an email from 2004, Fort Worth Human Resources stated, “Mr. Reed was only offered and selected for [a] Public Safety Communicator [position]. We have a different Social Security # for this person but same address.”

In Reed’s several applications to the City of Fort Worth, ranging from Water Systems Sampler to Code Enforcement Officer, the same DIFFERENT Social Security number was used.

Other interesting facts are stated in his applications such as the company Liberty Inc. as a former employer.

Located in Wichita Falls, Liberty Inc. is actually Liberty Baptist Church.
Reed’s salary for this job is listed as different in several applications, anywhere from $50,000 to$56,000 a year.

His positions are listed as senior administrator in one, chief executive officer in another, and even founder and CEO in another application, even though he listed a supervisor in all of them: Monty Walker.

In an interview with Venus resident A. B. Owens, it is alleged by Liberty Baptist Church members and relatives that Reed was a pastor in Wichita Falls who drained the church’s funds and ran off with another pastor’s wife, Betsy.

Reed was married at the time to Glenda Ford, who he has since divorced. The woman that he allegedly left Wichita Falls with is Betsy Reed, his current wife. Betsy accompanies Jerry to city council meetings.

In his application to the City of Venus, his previous employment page is peculiar when it comes to Liberty Inc. That’s because it’s not listed.

Instead, it simply states him as being “self-employed” with a yearly salary of more than $100,000 and that his reason for leaving is he “sold out and moved north.”

Sold out, indeed. This man was a supposed man of God, yet he stole the community’s money and ran off with another man’s wife.

Who is to say he doesn’t do the same in Venus? A city administrator has their hands in the city “cookie jar” more than anyone else on the council, including the mayor himself.

So, while our roads remain in a state of despair and upstanding citizens of Venus continue to work hard for a day’s pay, Reed is living the good life. The day may come where Reed takes everything for himself and leaves none for the rest of us.

You can reach David Kline at david@thevenusvoice.com. Note: Reed was given several weeks of requests and time to respond to the allegations and questions contained in this article.

Venus City Administrator Jerry Reed
Photo By: Lori Walkup