Thursday, January 23, 2020

Summary of January 22nd Personnel Appeals Board Hearing

Thanks again to everyone who came to the hearing to show their support for our members. This hearing picked up where the last one left off with the Appellant's testimony. The second Appellant testified to his reasons for filing his appeal which were pretty much in line with the first Appellant who testified at the last hearing. He went over his experience and test preparation, but otherwise there wasn't anything new revealed.

The Appellants also called a Lieutenant from our Department as a witness. He testified that when he took a Sergeant's exam several years ago he too had questions about the reasoning behind the low passing score he received on his oral board exam. In that case he contacted HR Director Santiago Malave and asked to see his score sheets, which he was allowed to do without any questions or having to file any official requests. He also testified that he learned he could do this from another Sergeant who told him that she had been able to see her oral board results and suggested he do the same. This of course stands in stark contrast to the experience the three Appellants had in this case where they were lied to and then denied the ability to review their paperwork, even after filing the official paperwork as instructed by Mr. Malave.

Because we were limited in time at this hearing, that's all we were able to cover. There is another hearing on Monday the 27th at 1700 were the Appellants should be able to wrap up their initial case and the Town will begin theirs, but at this time we don't know if that hearing will be open to the pubic or not.

After the hearing the Appellants, the Union President and Vice President finally received copies of the documents that we've been seeking regarding this matter. We haven't had time to review everything in depth yet since there's a large number of pages, but we'll be working on getting that done and meeting amongst ourselves in the coming days. As we detailed in a previous post we are prohibited from disclosing the contents of the documents to anyone not involved in this process due to a court order. But we can say that after what we've seen so far in a brief overview of the documents, the Union absolutely intends to continue to pursue our grievance on this issue and our assistance to the Appellants for all the reasons we've previously stated here and at our meetings.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uh oh sounds like somewhere there's a soon to be former hr director with a pornstache shitting his pants

Anonymous said...

For fear of retribution I cannot leave my name. But as a former NYPD Officer I believe that 244 has all the attributes you would want in an interim Chief.

Anonymous said...

As long as he took his happy pill and is happy joe than that would be a good interim choice......please don’t put lieutenant schizophrenia from ia in as interim chief. Doesn’t inter community health realize one of their patients is missing????

Anonymous said...

You mean Scut Farkus, right?

Anonymous said...

“Ofer”....as in 0 for 2

Anonymous said...

No way he could be chief for a day, when he was a sergeant on midnights he was such a nervous wreck and micro manager he made 269 look laid back

Anonymous said...

Chris Davis looks like one of those centaurs walking around the buildings because the Lt has his head so far up his ass!

Anonymous said...

Supposedly they are making another all star lieutenant next week, the one that demeans women and harasses them and makes them cry. How many times was he told to knock it off and stop degrading women? He continues that shit and more chro lawsuits are coming!!!!!!!
#hesucksandshouldbeskipped

Anonymous said...

A lieutenant for 3 months and now wants to be interim chief and no one is shocked commo would trade for 269 like yesterday. They would probably take a zero for the next 5 years for that deal! Where do I sign!

Anonymous said...

Make sure you bring a new box of pens so you can feel good about yourself as you write people up!

Anonymous said...

If we can’t have Ian can we take Olson back for three zeros, a box of milk duds and a round of coffees?

Anonymous said...

And some lean cuisines and some just for men too

Anonymous said...

Corbett has better interpersonal skills and she’s been gone for 4 years....

Francesco Iacono said...

Please refrain from leaving comments under other member's names. Feel free to leave comments anonymously or under your own name.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn’t want to work for him in commo either...::

-Doppelganger Joe McGeough

Anonymous said...

Wasn’t the deal when he took over in commo his office was supposed to be downstairs in the basement away from everyone.?Now that Al is gone there’s a spare office downstairs. You’d get 10 people Monday morning to help move him out by noon...c ya.....we’ll call if we need ya....NOT

Anonymous said...

I can’t believe guys tell on other guys at step 2 hearings at town hall, so sad what this place has become!

-Doppelganger Joe McGeough

Anonymous said...

Since you removed the comment that I posted, I will reiterate that I would like to be interim chief of police until all of this mess gets cleaned up.

-Doppelganger Joe McGeough

Anonymous said...

When you have written more people up as a lieutenant for a hot 3 months than you did as a sergeant for 5 years should raise a red flag to everyone. Doesn’t matter in the end as it’s all bullshit and everyone can see that

Anonymous said...

Amazing how smooth things run when certain bosses aren’t around.....that should be a clue the shoe just doesn’t fit!

Anonymous said...

Hypocrisy at it’s finest is those who are now bosses who preach all about customer service but themselves were NEVER good at it themselves. Funny how they don’t tow the customer service bullshit line when dealing with their own employees.

Anonymous said...

Keeping track of the mood swings on a piece of paper daily is getting tiring so we should just do an over/under to make it much more fun for everyone

Anonymous said...

Why is it the good bosses have everyone flocking to work FOR them and the terrible bosses have everyone flocking to LEAVE them? To be a good boss you have to be a good person and treat people with respect. Bad bosses shit all over everyone and think that they have the power over others because they are judge and jury and you couldn’t be more wrong....look in the damn mirror and accept the fact that nobody cares that your a boss now and nobody likes you and never will like you as long as you are two faced.

Anonymous said...

What's up