IS IT TRUE DECEMBER 12, 2016

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IS IT TRUE at todays Evansville Merit Commission meeting the board will schedule a disciplinary hearing concerning the fate of four EPD officers sometime after the new year? … we feel the four EPD officers have the right to tell their side of the story with legal counsel by their side? …this is a developing story?

IT TRUE we are hearing that another item on todays Merit Commission agenda has totally went under the radar of the main stream media  …this issue has to do with a 21 day suspension handed down to a EPD officer concerning the subject of an alleged suspension of his driving license?  …in the old days an aggressive investigative reporter would had been all over this story?

IS IT TRUE yesterday we read an Editorial in the local paper entitled “Vanderburgh Prosecutor Punts”? …we take issue with a comment written in this Editorial?  …the comment was; “in the court of credibility,  these officers and this prosecutor failed the public trust’? …we feel that this comment was out of bounds because we know that Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Nick Hermann has creditability and is an outstanding public servant?  …we urge other members of the local media allow the 4 EPD officers the opportunity to defend their creditability in the court of law without prejudice?  …we are extremely pleased with the way that our “First Responders” protects us on a daily basis?

IS IT TRUE its been alleged that during a recent sporting event at the Ford Center a locally elected public official had a negative encounter with his ex-wife?  …this negative encounter had to do with an alleged validation of a restraining order filed against him several years ago by his ex-wife? …we know that EPD and the Vanderburgh County Prosector office will investigate this issue without regards to the political standing of this public official?  …this is definitely a developing story?

IS IT TRUE at tonights Evansville City Council meeting the merits of appointing a Deputy Mayor will be discussed?  …If this ordinance passes, Mayor Winnecke’s Chief of Staff Steve Schaefer would automatically be declared the Deputy Mayor of Evansville, Ind?  …we wonder why people are making such a fuss concerning this issue since it’s a well known fact that Mr. Schaefer has been running the City on a day to day basis for years?

IS IT TRUE officials of the Vanderburgh County Health Department has scheduled a closed fact finding meeting with area elected and appointed officials to discuss the pros and cons of a syringe exchange program?  …during the old days the main stream media would had declared this proposed closed door meeting is in direct validation of the “open door or sunshine” law of Indiana?

IS IT TRUE during the last budget hearings the leadership of the City Council stated  the budget could not be increased?  …City Council can increase expenditures in the budget when it comes to public safety funding issues?

FOOTNOTE: Todays “Readers Poll” question;  Do you feel that our “First Responders” are doing a great job in protecting us on a daily basis?

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8 COMMENTS

  1. How can you be elected to any office if a restraining order has been issued against you?

    • Easy ..just have ties to Ch-25 and do the Mayor’s bidding without asking questions and the Lame Stream Media will NOT inform the public ..poof, you’re elected ..

    • Marion Berry was elected Mayor of Washington DC after serving a term in prison for drug violations while he was mayor the first time. The only limit with respect to what one can get by with and still get elected is how gullible (or should I say stupid) the voting public is.

  3. DEPUTY MAYOR

    Wiki:

    Duties and functions:
    Many elected vice mayors are members of the city council who are given the title and serve as acting mayor in the mayor’s absence. Appointive deputy mayors serve at the pleasure of the mayor and may function as chief operating officers.
    There may be within the same municipal government where a deputy mayor(s) appointed by the mayor to policy areas and a popularly-elected vice mayor who serves as the mayor’s successor in the event the office is vacated by death, resignation, disability, or impeachment.
    In other cities the vice mayor presides over the city council, and may not vote except to break ties. Like the deputy mayor in other systems, the popularly-elected vice mayor becomes acting mayor in the mayor’s absence. As previously noted, in some few cities, this office is elected separately and does not entail the elevation by the council of one of its members to be speaker. In some U.S. cities, the mayor and deputy or vice mayor run together as a ticket similar to how president and vice president run at the national level.

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    So what form of deputy mayor are we looking at here in Evansville? What is the impetus driving this sudden need for a deputy mayor?

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