Now wait for the deluge
This comment appeared almost minutes after the story, in today's CDS, about Police Chief Clement's salary. And I'll bet that this isn't the last one to come in.
But let's be fair in a police department with admitted morale problems and a chief that was on "Administrative leave" for some time don't you think that some people, including the chief, would have to work a wad of overtime to cover for the others? How else do you think a constable whose base pay is around $70,000 can pull in $101,000.
The question here is who has caused the department to suffer from such low morale that sick leave is horrendous and the others are working overtime to take up the slack. My bet is on a Council that can hardly wait to poop on the Chief at every opportunity and to ask the OPP to come in and take over.
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You nailed it this time. I chimed in with the same analysis at my blog.
There won't be a citizen in Cobourg who won't have an opinion on this one. Let's hope taxpayers are vigilant enough to not get swept in the rhetoric.
The latest on the police chief comes from our grizzled mouthpiece, David Craig, who ranted this morning (April 4th) in defence of poor Chief Clement, whose explanation about his over the top salary is that he was paid extra last year because of his administrative "leave".
Love to know how that works...don't go to work and not only get paid anyway, but get paid extra!
Mr. Craig declared that the Chief does not expect his contract to be renewed when it comes up shortly, and further, that he has already contacted his lawyers about that.
Maybe the Chief's strategy is to behave so outrageously that citizens will happily pay whatever amount it takes just to be rid of him.
Could our Council, and our Police Services Board, be more incompetent?
Read the paper and you will find that the PSB was sticking it to the Chief by paying him his accumulated sick leave ($69,000)in lump sum and making him pay full tax on it instead of allowing him to collect on retirement, presumably at a reduced tax rate
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