ORTian Dictionary

I was thinking the other day how ORTian logic is an oxymoron. Their thought process truly defies all reason. I was also thinking how they have their own definition for certain words and phrases that aren’t necessarily conforming to Merriam or Webster. I came up with a few. Can you add any of your own?

Disruptive
Making a statement or raising any concern or topic during city meetings that does not agree with ORT policies or pranks.

Personal Attacks
Making a statement or raising any concern or topic during city meetings against ORT policies or pranks.
(When in reality, a personal attack would be making fun of one’s toupee or style of speech—none of which has been seen during public comments of CC meetings).

Executive Session Topics
Any topic that the ORT wants to keep secret. Their new motto should be “an uninformed citizen is our best citizen.”
(Ann, “Executive Session” is not your secret club. It is only to be used in certain circumstances and conditions that are clearly outlined in RSMo 610.021)


Now, please add your own.

Recipe: Agenda Upside-Down Cake

How would our first meeting with the upside-down agenda (executive session first and resident comments last) work for our fair city? In one way, last night’s meeting was very productive. The business licenses were granted, the contracts for salt, slurry, concrete, etc were all put into ordinance. However, the meeting started with disagreement and there was always a thread of discontent running through the meeting.

So, for those of you who can’t wait until the televised version on Thursday, here are some of the lowlights:

Queen tries to immediately move meeting to Executive Session with the sole purpose to sell Wild Acres. This was done despite statements at the August meeting that she has no intention to sell this seminary property. Later in the meeting she makes a similar statement that she has no intention to sell this property, but she “just doesn’t know what to do with it.”


Queen hires alternate law firm to work on this and the Cozad project without authorization of the city council. She wants Mr. Cunningham (the alternate lawyer) to be the sole city representative while negotiating the Cozad deal. City council overrides this and says they want Herman involved in all city legal dealings. I can only assume this was a backdoor route to get rid of Bob Herman when added in with her trying to have him removed from the meetings several times.

Speaking of removing from meetings, in addition to Herman, The Queen tried to have O’Connell removed from the meeting. Can you legally remove someone from a meeting that they are legally required to attend? More ORT circular logic at work.

Veto magic: The Queen "vetoed" the council's rejection of paying for her consultant and lawyer. Can one "veto" a measure that was never put before them? If council votes down something, it is not veto-able, right?

The Queen did plenty to put her foot in her mouth. Highlights include:

• “I’m no leader” when asked by a resident of her leadership ability.
• When speaking of the Cozad project, she wanted to move forward so the project could come to “fruitation”. One can only assume that Cozad plans to develop an orchard on the property.
• She called Jeff O’Connell an idiot for questioning her circular logic.
• “It’s none of the citizen’s business” when asked why she felt it necessary to do certain city business behind closed doors. Specifically the Cozad deal, which does NOT fall under the provisions of Executive Session rules under state Sunshine Law.

Residents’ comments were moved to the end. This can only come back to bite the ORT, as we can now comment directly on their actions of the evening. Knode had his usual 30-minute prepared speech (Why does he get unlimited time and we get 3 minutes?). In this, he said he supported our first amendment rights. Then, went on to state how limiting those rights by limiting comments to 15 minutes was just great. He said that resident comments were disruptive of city business.

If resident participation in their government disrupts “city business”, then the city is in the wrong business.

Stupid Agenda Tricks

Bopped by City Hall this morning and took a gander at the agenda for Monday's meeting. A lotof stuff has been switched around. I am not sure what the mayor is up to, but the agenda goes something like:

Call meeting to order, roll call, pledge, et all

Executive Session (what?!)

Usual meeting stuff such as City Clerk report, business licensces, new ordinances.

Residents comments (again I say, what?!)


There are two major issues with this reworking. The most obvious and will bring the most ire of the residents is that our comments are being pushed to the end. I can only assume this is so Knode, Owensby and Sellers can leave early and not be bothered with them. After all, Knode already has set precedent in this matter at the 9/11/2006 meeting.


Then there is the Executive Session in the middle of the meeting. Nothing will run folks off (which I am sure is her intention) than to have the entire city council leave for an hour or so in the middle of the meeting. This hardly plays into Ann's "We need to get these business licensces approved" harping from the 9/11/2006 meeting. I propose that we use this time, when we are all gathered to semi-strategize on our moves. Mind you that mindless ORTians will still be lurking. But, I think nothing says "backfire" like the citizens gathering to speak out (even if just to each other) on all of the issues plaguing our city and working toward a plan to ride the ORT out on a rail.

Coach Blowensme's Public Health and Safety Report: Rug Rage

A Connecticut man's really bad hair day leads to a wig store wig-out, a heart attack, and a day in court.

Milford, CT -- A man who claims he had a heart attack during a dispute over an ill-fitting hairpiece that didn't match his hair color is suing the wig shop.

Paul Lewis claims he suffered a heart attack after refusing to pay for the hairpiece that was not only the wrong size but also the wrong color. He is seeking more than $15,000 in damages.

Lewis filed a counter lawsuit in Superior Court after Paula's Wig Boutique of Orange filed a small claims action seeking $1,200 in payment for the hairpiece.

Lewis claims he fell ill in December 2004 after Paula Wood, the owner of the wig shop, threatened to call police because he refused to pay, according to court records.

Lewis told the Connecticut Post that Wood sold him the hairpiece in a darkened room and he didn't realize it was the wrong color until later. He said he put a stop payment on a check he issued to the shop.

Wood said she has no idea why Lewis suffered a heart attack over the incident and added that he was so happy with the hairpiece when he left the shop that he "hugged me and thanked me."

She added that her shop is brightly lit and Lewis left with the hairpiece during the day

"I don't want a downtown like Maplewood..." MusicNote

Several months ago during the run up to the election Candidate Mary Beth Conlon cited the city of Maplewood and the revitalization of their downtown as an example of what Overlands downtown could look like. MusicNote argued that she had driven through downtown Maplewood and she wasn't impressed. She didn't like what she saw there.
But others disagree with her. Including St Louis magazine. In their article Maplewood what went right they point to Maplewood as a success story and point to it as what small town downtowns could be like.

"The trophies of the "overnight" success are impressive: Maplewood boasts two of the metro area's finest restaurants, Monarch and Arthur Clay's. There's the ever-hip Schlafly Bottleworks. Boutiques and specialty shops range from Femme and Annata to Penzeys Spices. Maplewood has landed lucrative (if controversial) mass retailers, chief among them Wal-Mart. A $6 million townhome development called Cambridge Commons is rising in the center of the city. And homeowners have seen their property appreciate 17 percent each year since 2000."

But I guess Music note is happy with stagnant property values. If her property value is stagnant then her property taxes don't go up. And it's all about taxes and the dollars to the ORT and their supporters.

Why They Fight?

On Thursday, the mayor posted her argument for the ORT behavior in recent meetings. I take exception to many of her points.

Point#1
The Queen says "Everyday we fight to restore value to your TAX DOLLARS by restoring the community services…"

No, you fight to restore your warped sense of the citizens priorities. Please poll the entire electorate and see if they prefer a fully-staffed police force or their trash bill paid by the city. I am sure an overwhelming majority would say the former.

Point#2
The Queen says "We are fighting to restore fiscal discipline to your local government…"

How does creating a Purchasing Agent position fall under fiscal discipline? How does paying unauthorized consultants to work on secret projects meet the definition? Don't even get me started on the $25,000 for a "pool study" that could possibly be provided for free from the various contractors who would bid on such a job.


Point#3
The queen either doesn't know math or she is a liar. Her trash restoration budget only allotted a bit over $600,000 for trash service. Yet, the last time the city paid for trash it was around $1.2 million. So, either she is not restoring service at the level you have come to expect or she is getting some sweetheart of a deal from the trash companies.

She goes on to explain more about why the ORT fights and tries to assume the motives behind the council majority. Examples of the latter include a secret conspiracy to RAISE YOUR TAXES!

How about a little less fighting and little more spirit of compromise or communication?

How about not fighting civil rights and allowing citizens their right to speak and address their representatives instead of putting down your foot on an issue where you are so apparently wrong?

Am I the only one who finds it a bit ironic when the ORT propaganda machine harkens back to the Why We Fight World-War-II-era propaganda series?

The ORT's Circular Logic is Making me Dizzy!

Wow! What a meeting, as shown on cable last evening! Sometimes, I like to watch the televised version as the sound is a bit improved over what you hear in the audience. Unfortunately, once one can hear what they are saying it can easily make one ill.

The obviously predetermined plan of the ORT to limit residents' comments was what made me ill. Ill, by way of dizziness! Let's see. We can't make a motion to extend residents' comments because the meeting has yet to be called to order. Yet, Jeff is "out of order" for requesting that residents' comments be extended. And, if the meeting hasn't started, why not just delay the start to hear the residents in their entirety? This is not to mention that they argued for over an hour to extend the comments—time that could be spent on the comments themselves. And, thus, we never had an actual meeting—how does the ORT think that method will progress business concerns in Overland?

Ann is digging herself such a big hole that Overland is starting to look like the surface of the moon. She cherry picks who she will allow to speak during her decreed 15 minute limit. When they allowed a few folks to speak after her self-imposed 15 minute limit, she allowed some to speak freely even addressing their comments while cutting off others. The city is so ripe for another lawsuit over this, yet she stubbornly digs in her heels.


Jeff O'Connell wins the Council Member of the Month award for pointing out how ROR allows for a chair that disregards motions from the floor. Richard Knode is the Council Loser of the Month when he walked out on residents comments—showing how little concern the ORT actually has for the residents of the cities. They may talk a lot about such concern in their handbill/flyers dropped off in the middle of the night. But, actions speak so much louder than words, Mr. Knode. And your actions screamed that you are more willing to railroad the citizens and bring about another lawsuit to the city than to do what is actually right for the citizens. Good public service goes beyond providing free trash!

Helpfull Hints from the Desk of Coach Kenny Blowensme.

Keeping the rug

To make sure your hair replacement system stays intact (and fragrant), here are the best maintenance methods, according to David Hansen:

• Before securing to your scalp, thoroughly comb or brush your hairpiece. Use a wide-toothed comb with smooth, rounded edges to avoid abuse to the foundation. If brushing, use natural boar bristles.

• While wearing the hairpiece avoid prolonged sun exposure, which could lead to oxidation. Reddish highlights could appear or the color may lighten up to four shades.

• Do not sleep, swim or sweat excessively, which could critically shorten the toupee's lifespan (usually two to three years).

• At night, secure the hairpiece to a Styrofoam head with a few T-pins. That will help maintain shape.

• Have it professionally cleaned every two weeks. Never do it on your own, unless trained to do so. The tape, hair spray residue, scalp oils and perspiration are removed and the hairpiece's original fullness is restored. The entire procedure takes up to 30 minutes.

Overlandchat, where are you?

Has anyone been over to the Overlandchatsite lately? The rats have abandoned the ship. Sweaty pickles, Music Note, Piss Pot Pete, Danny Inspector, Hands... All gone. The only one still posting is Spydog. And he is so incoherent that you have to read his posts three times to make heads or tails of them. His latest rant proves that he doesn't have the reading comprehension skills of a 8 year old. He has made the assumption that if the judge rules against Ann and the ORT that it would mean that we would have to have the Overland city meeting in a place capable of holding the entire population of Overland. That a person who was a police officer could so thoroughly misread the law and make such an error in logic boggles the mind. Is this the level of logic and reasoning that the entire ORT possess? What benefits will spydog derive if the ORT is able to continue unchecked? We know that spydog can't become city attorney (unless skidmark prints him a JD diploma) and we know that since spydog has his post certification pulled he can't be the chief of police. Or did someone fail to tell him that?
Take heart in the fact that in 35 days we can start collecting signatures to start the recall of Purzner.

A New Ward 4 Newsletter?

If words couldn't express everyone's feeling before...

This is what was left on my door while at school today. It is so nice that the ORT has picked up the slack from the Knietzel/Saye era of a Ward 4 newsletter. However, there is no “Holiday Decoration Winner” or “Business of the Month” in this baby. No, it’s just ORT lies, distortion and propaganda.

Read it and see what you can find in ways of the aforementioned lies and propaganda.
Here are a few I found after one reading:

1. The elimination of the city calendar, pool, et al is blamed on the majority of the council. I find this odd, since half of them were not on the board at this time last year or when any of their “crimes against humanity” happened.
   
2. The ridiculous assertation that Corcoran and Schneider would prefer a bike path over free trash pickup. One, the bike path is part of a multi-city, bi-state initiative and was not to cost us much more than signage. The cost of that signage is hardly equivalent to free trash pickup for my street, let alone the whole city.
   
3. The following quote is from left field and I would love to see the source of it:
   “They have even openly stated that they don’t care about the 17,000 residents of the City, their only concern has been for rewarding a few of their friends at City hall with huge pay increase, making sure our chief is the highest paid in the area and seeing there are inflated expenditures for legal fees.”
   

Who exactly is responsible for the recent ballooning of legal fees in the City of Overland? I think the ORT should look inward for that answer.

Words Cannot Describe the Contempt I have for the ORT

Wow.

I hate stupid people...

I popped over to the other ORT website and spydog is continuing to harp about a cover up and trash money. He keeps mis-stating that Proposition O was to pay for trash. Prop O was a capital improvements tax. Let's look at capital improvements and what is included in capital improvements. Here's a nice definition that I found on the web:
Major construction, repair of or addition to buildings, parks, streets, bridges and other Town facilities. Capital Improvements projects cost $25,000 or more, and have a useful life of more than three years.
Let's see if trash collection falls in the definition of capital improvements.
Is it construction or repair? No, it is the pick up and removal of refuse.
Will it cost more then $25,000? Yes, but we don't know exactly how much because the budget committee in their infinite wisdom decided to allocate funds first and get a quote later.
Will it have a useful life of more then three years? No, this is a yearly contract for a weekly service.
Is this a town facility, building, park or street? No, this is a service.
So trash collection is NOT a capital improvement.

Spydog keeps dropping allegations on the ORT site that there is a cover up being orchestrated by Bob Herman. While at the same time the mayor and her cronies have not come forward with full disclosure about there involvement with Mark Brown (they can't deny they are involved with him, they're not even smart enough to park behind his shop when receive their marching orders from him).
Why was there such a rush to kill the development of the Cupples site? Why did the mayor attempt to illegally install friends of Mark Brown as the city attorney and the chief of police? What is her motivation behind these actions?

As a poster to the ORT website stated Spydog needs to shit or get off the pot. If he has proof of a cover up he needs to step forward and turn over the information he has to the news media and the St Louis county prosecutors office and the FBI.
Otherwise he just needs to sit down and shut up and stick to topics he knows.

Cretans, Cronies and Credentials: Hired Education and the Public Trough

Thanks to the Ghost of Norman Meyers for bringing the Post-Dispatch article c0ncerning, the Grand Master of the Ort-ian Order, Mark Downstown Brown and his latest shenanigans to muck-up the St. Charles Police Department.

(You may find the full story in Norman's contribution to the Foresaken Four post.)

According to the story, Downstown Brown hired a police chief with no experience or credentials outside of winning election for St. Charles County Deputy Sherriff. Let that be a lesson to those advocating Overland return to electing the Chief of Police.

As Mayor Ann Purzner will attest, lacking or faking credentials does not rule-out running for elected office. Somehow Downstown Brown was able to disregard the job qualifications for the St. Charles Police Chief position when hiring Mr. Swope. The job requires, REQUIRES, the candidate to have a Masters Degree. Well not really. Credentials are not necessary when living in Downstown Brown's hip pocket.

I must give some credit to Mr. Swopes and Downstown Brown here. At least they didn't do something so god aweful stupid as providing fraudulent credentials. Only an absolute cretan would promote themselves through fraudulently pretending to have gone to college or creating fake diplomas. So I must commend Mr. Swope for having the fortitude to stand on his own credentials. Swopes doesn't even have a Bachelor's degree. But, I am sure St. Charles West High has a great criminology department.

Having hired the new chief, Downstown Brown now wants to send him to college. Not continuing education or certification. Not even sending him for FBI training as Chief Herron has completed. I am not sure but would that make Swope the first person in Downstown Browns family to attend college? Downstown Brown and Mr. Swope are a couple of real Horatio Algers.

Better yet, the program is not tuition reimbursal as is the convention, it is a direct outlay into his regular $100k+ salary. Yepper! Cha-Ching. $11,000.00 annual subsidy drops right to the bottom-line. No one ever said being a Downstown Crony wasn't lucrative.

But the "send my buddy to college" program does have some tough criteria that must be maintained. Mr. Swopes must maintain a B average. A F'n B average! WtF! I knew part-time students (meaning full-time students only attending classes part of the time) to pull a B average.

What is noticably missing to me is any criteria addressing the number of hours the candidate must be enrolled in to get the full subsidy. As in saying the reimbursal would cover education costs up-to $11,000.00 per year. That type of requirement would put the program in a broader context professional administration which is the wrong type of thinking on my part. I must remember it is not the education that matters, it is the payoff. There is no mention of the number hours required to earn the subsidy. Does the candidate get the full $11,000 if enrolled in 3 hours? Intuition and history tells me yes.

Assuming the best case scenario, if Swopes attended an accredited university in the past he could transfer at most 60 hours leaving another 60 hours to earn degree. A full-time student graduating on-time enrolls in 5 courses per semester, 3 hours per course resulting in 15 hours per semester. Best case scenario would have Swopes graduating in two years provided he takes a full load of courses. For every hour of course work you should assume 2 hours for homework thereby reaching a 45 hour work week for a full-time student.

Which begs the question, who is going to be serving as chief of police if the actual chief is going to be in school for 45 hours a week? Won't the other officers be a bit pissed if their chief spent more time hanging with the coeds than at the Department? Therefore, I would bet Swopes isn't even planning to take a full load.

In terms of cost, the money seems about right for a full time student. Let us use UMSL tuition as an example. UMSL tuition and activity feel come to about $283.00/hour for in-state student. Annual tuition for full-time would come to roughly $8,500.00 leaving $2,500.00 for books. But does the candidate have to be enrolled full-time to get the subsidy? Of course not.
He will be getting the subsidy with taking 3 hours maybe 6 at most. At six hours a semester and assuming he can transfer 60 of the 120 needed, he will be going to college for about 10 years to get a bachelor's degree. $11,000.00/year multiplied by 10 years equals the most expensive bachelor's degree of all time! If he has not completed any courses, you can double the above figures.

Now on to the 60 additional hours he would need to earn Master's.....................

Also, don't forget that every other officer in the Department will only get a tuition reimbursal of $500.00 per year which doesn't even cover tuition for one class at UMSL. "off to class again Chief, boy that must be nice. Goodluck a-hole"

Why does it matter to us folks here in Overland? Is Mayor Con planning to finally attend the college she always wanted to on the public's dime. Is Downstown Brown trying to groom another hack replacement for Chief Herron?

Forsaken Four File with Feds

I hope everyone enjoyed their labor day vacation as much as I did. I enjoyed a party, a wedding reception and hosted the first annual Yawning Man Festival on Monday.

We received word the Overland's Forsaken Four have rightfully filed suit in Federal Court as a result of Mayor Con's "personel decisions". I wonder how the Mayor is going to work Donna Dills into testimony for this case. I can't think of the need for the Expert Ass Counter in this case, but then again I can't think of any reason why the Carpet-Bagging confidant of Mayor Con would be involved in our City in the first place.

Speaking of testimony, anyone notice the coincidence between EJ's trial analysis post and the surrender of OverlandChat? They stepped in it deep with their strategy of putting five or six congenital liers and two people "Speaking in Tongues" on the stand. I betcha ole' has put together quite a list for his discovery requets.

Given they are incapable of being genuine, you know damn good and well something will come out of the trial that will be ugly for Ol Sweaty. Something like a grown man impersonating our Mayor through fraudulent e-mails and performing at the Boxer's n Briefs happy our.

"Ladies , Gentlemen and those in betwee, please direct your attention to stage four. Behind that feather boa is one of your favorite performers. How about a big boxers n briefs welcome for ..........THE COACH!"

Given the recent unilateral capitulation of OverlandChat, I found the following story somewhat amuzing.


OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Swiss driver caught speeding in Canada explained that he had been taking advantage of the ability to drive fast without hitting a goat, police said on Wednesday.

The driver was caught traveling 161 km/hr (100 mph) in a 100 km/hr zone in eastern Ontario Sunday.

"A motorist from Switzerland, used to driving around hills and mountains, takes advantage of the ability to go faster without risking hitting a goat," read the traffic officer's notes of the incident.

Local police said it was the first time they had ever heard of such an excuse.

"I've never been to Switzerland but obviously they must have a problem with that there," said police spokesman Joel Doiron, adding that in his 20 years of service he had never found a goat on the highways of eastern Ontario.

The Swiss driver's imaginative excuse did him little good. Police issued him a C$360 ($330) speeding ticket.

Case Study: Mentor - Protege Dysfunction within Public Personel Management

Is it possible for Downstown Brown and Mayor Con to do anything, and I do mean anything, that doesn't involve re-allocating public resources in attempt to curry favor with the targets of their political affections? Are there any administrative policies in either St. Charles or Overland that Mentor Mark and Protege Purzner respect?

It must be a real nightmare to work within St. Charles and City of Overland administrations. At any moment, Mentor Mark and Protege Purzner may decide to disregard existing rational-legal administrative proceedures in order to employ the next phase of their personal "Two Finger Manifesto". The following story highlights yet ANOTHER example of Mentor Mark wallowing in the public trough in order to achieve some personal bullshit strategem.

It is no wonder that any governing institutions that Mentor Mark and Protege Purzner touch are immediately plunged into disaray upon their arrival. Can you imagine the Esprit de Corp generated among those St. Charles Officers attending continuing education programs or working towards criminology degrees when they learn that their Chief will receive an annual tuition reimbursal that is approximately $10,500.00 greater than the tuition reimbursal they recieve?

Every administrative policy Mentor Mark and Protege Purzner advocate utlimately pit employee against employee. Maybe we should change the name of the Brown/Purzner/ORT movement to the Zero Sum Party as these folks are incapable of creating wealth. They are only capable of reallocating wealth for their personal gain.

In short, Mentor Mark and Protege Purzner are just a couple of sorry-ass miserable mofos that steal from government and give to.....themselves of course.
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St. Charles mayor vetoes chief's tuition reimbursement
By Mark Schlinkmann
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Friday, Sep. 01 2006

ST. CHARLES

Mayor Patti York vetoed on Friday the $11,000-a-year college tuition
reimbursement package given recently to Police Chief Tim Swope by the City
Council, complaining that it far exceeds the $500 benefit allowed other city
workers for that purpose.

York also objected because the legislation would extend Swope's contract an
additional year to 2010. She said any extension should be preceded by a
performance review, which has not been done.

York said when she, the council and City Administrator Allan Williams hired
Swope last year, he said he wanted to return to school to get law enforcement
degrees. However, he didn't indicate he'd need extra money to do so.

"I certainly admire the chief for wanting to go back to school and attain his
higher education degrees, but it should not be totally on the shoulders of our
taxpayers," the mayor said in her veto message.

She said she and other officials waived degree requirements when hiring Swope
because of his experience as St. Charles County sheriff, his previous job.
Swope is paid $111,100 a year as chief; he earned $79,000 as sheriff.

One of the bill's sponsors, Councilman Mark Brown of the 3rd Ward, said the
tuition package was justified. He said the city pays for training for various
police officers in addition to the college benefit.

"We said we'll do this for you (but) you have to guarantee to us you'll stay
another year," he said.

For Whom the Whistle Blows......

In honor of SpyDog's passionate and continuous charges of corruption among the BoA's majority opposition, we believe the timely suggestion offered this week by our good friends at the People for the Liberation of Overland should be of particular interest. PFLO has suggested a whistle blower law be considered by the BoA in order to provide an appropriate legal framework for Whistle Blowers to come forward in good faith in order to root-out corruption.

Under a Whistle Blower framework, individuals who discover corruption while also not possessing the..... "courage".... to report said corruption, would have a venue to report their experience without fear of retribution.

For example, let's say that Spydog worked for the City. Under a Whistle Blower Ordinance, Spydog could report any corruption or cover-up without needing to make gutless and un-substantiated rumors on his website. This type of process would enable Spydog to substitute a controlling legal authority for the lack of stones that Spydog continues to demonstrate in making these repeated charges. But, Spydog doesn't work for the City so he need not worry. Spydog also doesn't have any information that would be considered scandelous. Simply because he doesn't understand the changes in accounting proceedures resulting from the City no longer paying for trash-servicde doesn't a scandel make. So we need not worry either.

Another example can be drawn from the private sector. Let's assume you are working for Radio Shack. It comes to your attention that another employee is falsifying cell phone orders to inflate his commission. A common crime for a common criminal. Let's also say that this co-worker has stolen the identity information from official police records. A whistle blower policy would enable you to turn in the cowardly co-worker without fear of losing your job for doing so.

Without further adieu, we give you the POST OF THE WEEK!

P.F.L.O. said...

Berkeley Financial Director was terminated today for failing to comply with a New City Ordinance requiring and Protecting Employees for reporting or failing to report wrong doing on the part of City Officials.

The Ordinance gives the employees protection from retaliation against them by Supervisors or city Administrators. It also requires the employees to report suspected misconduct to the administration.

This type of Ordinances extends the protection of the "Whistle Blower Act" to their employees. It also provides for punishment to the employees for making false accusations. All reports have to reviewed by the entire board so no one group has access to the information.

Maybe its' time for Overland to adopt such an Ordinance. The employees know what’s going on what’s wrong with them being able to expose wrongdoing.

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