Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
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April 3, 1998
Fire Department Staffing
Cedar Falls - There are always two sides to every story. At the risk of disagreeing with Cedar Falls Director Jay Kohl, I would like to explain the other side of the March 29 story, "Officials vexed by temporary fire station closing," by Nathan Phelps.
In a 24-hour period, Cedar Falls fire stations are normally staffed with 10 firefighters - three at the Lone Tree Station and seven at the Main Station. Seven is the minimal staffing needed, as decided by a Labor Management Committee, to handle equipment and to protect each area during fires or medical emergencies.
On the night in the Courier article, budget considerations and adjusted personnel levels had reduced emergency staff to an all-time low number of five. With only five firefighters for both stations, Fire Captain Larry Burman made a hard decision about how to protect the entire city. He decided to close the Lone Tree Station and operate from the Main Street Station.
By closing the Lone Tree Station, Captain Burman created the best firefighting force possible to handle emergencies and to comply with the "2-in 2-out" ruling mandated by Iowa OSHA and the Federal Government.
Captain Burman was in a no-win situation. The city only allowed Captain Burman five firefighters when it takes a minimum of seven to do the job.
In these days of risk-management, it seems easy for upper management to make decisions. But, when those decisions backfire, it seems just as easy for upper management to push the blame onto someone under their supervision. Right now the Cedar Falls risk-management policy dictates minimal police and firefighter coverage.
Captain Burman was doing the best with what he was given. He should not be made a scapegoat for the current unwritten, vague hope-this-works-out Cedar Falls staffing policies.
Let's commend Captain Burman's common sense and his problem-solving abilities rather than condemn him for making the best of a no-win situation.
CEDAR FALLS FIRE
LT. RANDY TERPSTRA
Wednesday, May 6, 1998
Fight Fires Full TimeCEDAR FALLS - Our Community has grown from a small farm town to a nice city. Expansion has run our city limits to the Waterloo city limits east and half way to Hudson south. Northwest Cedar Falls has also expanded. My point is this: Cedar Falls needs more than a volunteer fire department.
Yes, there will be a small full-time crew bit our lives and property depend on well-trained men. Volunteers are fine in small towns. Volunteers would have full-time jobs. When called, they would have to come from several areas of the city. This would take time and time would be precious. Full-time men would be there waiting for back-up. The building could burn down. One fireman can't enter a building alone.
I think this city could use a third station. I don't think taxpayers would complain if they could get something for their money. Whose idea was it to have volunteer firefighters? I don't believe it was the citizens of Cedar Falls.
ROY and MARGARET DIERCKS
C. F. Wakeup call
CEDAR FALLS- The city of Cedar Falls has done it again. This is not the first time an officer of either the police or fire departments has filled a position temporarily, only to be deemed unworthy to be appointed to the position permanently. Where is the justice done to these temporary appointees?
Dean Williams has been passed over twice because he may not brown nose properly. Dean was well liked, maybe that was why he didn't get the appointment. Look out citizens of Cedar Falls, it looks like there could be a chance you could have cross-training coming to your city amongst the police and fire personnel. This has been tried in other states and failed.
You are seeing the beginning indicator of this possibility with changing logos on police and fire vehicles; tax dollars being wasted by Public Safety Department Director Jay Kohl. The City Council should be ashamed of this waste of our tax dollars. Retired (Waterloo) Capt. Keith Crowley is right. The mayor and City Council should be ashamed. I, for one, am not impressed with all of Kohl's paper degrees; all might be impressive but he lacks what seems to be common sense and good judgement.
Wake up, citizens, we are about to go for a ride with our tax dollars being fleeced right under our noses by the present administration as it is right now. Keith Crowley is right, the mayor should be ashamed. Where else can your right to freedom of speech be stopped? What is Kohl afraid of anyway? Did something take place at his last city job he is afraid might come back to haunt him? Why was a gag order issued (as part of his settlement in Meridian Township, Mich.), if he doesn't have something in his past history to hide?FRANCIS HARRINGTON
retired, CFFD
C.F. Situation Criticized
Cedar Falls - Tom Brokaw has on his newscast a portion that is called the "Fleecing of America." We should have him come here and expose "The Fleecing of Cedar Falls." We certainly do not need Jay Kohl.
We had and can have good police chiefs and fire chiefs. Let them have authority to do their job and get rid of the mayor's buddy - Jay Kohl.
Mrs. C. Paulus
C.F. officer supported
CEDAR FALLS - The Cedar Falls Police Protective Association supports the position Officer David Bond noted in the Guest Opinion in the Waterloo Courier dated May 17. Members of the Police Protective Association have read Officer Bond's submission to the Courier and find it supports many of the concerns the Association members have in this matter.
Members of both fire and police have expressed the same concerns over the past few months. We regret the difficulties both parties have had in solving these matters. We commend Officer Bond's calling these concerns to attention.
We very much regret the response of public safety officials. We hope this matter can be judged fairly and without disciplinary action against Officer Bond.
CEDAR FALLS POLICE
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
MEMBERS
C.F. public safety issue
CEDAR FALLS - This is in response to the front-page Courier article dated June 5, and titled "Letter lands Cedar Falls officer in hot water."
Officer Dave Bond is facing possible disciplinary action for writing a guest opinion to the Courier stating concerns about the management of the Cedar Falls police and fire departments. I don't proclaim to know the facts about what is going on in these departments, nor do I know new Public Safety Director Jay Kohl or Police Deputy Director Rick Ahlstrom.
I do know that during the first 9 1/2 years I have lived in Cedar Falls it appeared morale was good in our public safety departments and in the last half year I have heard numerous complaints. I also know how Officer Bond responded professionally to a motor vehicle accident I was involved in and how he appeared on my behalf at an unfortunate and minor small claims trial unsubpoenaed and on his own time. This was a cop doing his duty and more.
I think his letter to the Courier was his right and conceivably his duty. If Officer Bond can't express his opinions in a public forum without threat of disciplinary action, when will "big brother" censor mine?
Come on Cedar Falls administration, state your own facts in a similar forum. Give us credit that we can read two sides of an issue and draw an informed opinion, but don't try to suppress one side's opinion and assume the flock will abide by yours.
JIM OLSON
Editors note: Mayor Ed Stachovic and Public Safety Director Kohl did have a response to Bond's submission printed right below it.
CEDAR FALLS - What is Mayor Ed's vendetta with the Cedar Falls Fire Department? Is this just "union busting"?
Will Cedar Falls, down the road, just have "professional equipment drivers"? Surely we expect someone to "man" the fire station and drive the equipment to the fire so the "volunteers" can then fight the fire, instead of professional firefighters.
Professional administration costs less than professional employees? Come on.
At what point does professional firefighters vs. volunteer firefighters start affecting my fire insurance? Do insurance companies put consideration on fire departments?
If it looks like union busting and smells like union busting - it is union busting?
When will Cedar Falls have to depend on Waterloo for professional firefighters?
Larry D. Ohl
Telling it like it is
CEDAR FALLS - Hats off to Police Officer David Bond for telling it as he sees it at City Hall in Cedar Falls. If (Public Safety Director) Mr. Jay Kohl had earned the respect, as he should have, of the police and fire departments in Cedar Falls when he first became public safety director, Officer Bond would never had to write his letter to the editor.
Bunny Wiegmann
Freedom of speech
CEDAR FALLS - This is in reference to the article in the Courier on Friday, June 5, concerning Patrolman David Bond's letter to the editor.
I could not believe that Cedar Falls Mayor Ed Stachovic, Public Safety Director Jay Kohl and Deputy Safety Director Rick Ahlstrom would even consider disciplining Officer Bond for exercising his freedom of speech.
In the several Months that Jay Kohl has held the unneeded position of public safety director, he has compiled a list of accomplishments including: changing the titles of the police and fire chiefs to "deputy public safety directors"; he added another expensive and unneeded "assistant public safety director" (just what his position entails is anyone's guess); he has removed acting Chief Dean Williams (a highly trained, experienced and well respected police captain) for no apparent reason other than for Mr. Kohl to show his power at the expense of the citizens of Cedar Falls; his efforts to curb overtime costs have resulted in staff being cut to the point of closing Fire Station No. 2 one date and our police force sometimes cut to only two officers on duty; and he has quite efficiently demoralized the members of the finest group of police officers and firefighters in the state.
Cedar Falls has been my home for 64 years. I have proudly defended and served this city. I was born here, I raised a family here, and I will die here. It greatly saddens me to see this wonderful town broken down by a few people in the position of power who either don't know any better, or just don't care. It's a sorry day when someone is intimidated by their superiors for voicing their opinion. When our basic freedom of speech is removed from us, what is left?
VERNON KOLPECK
Cedar Falls Police, retired
C.F. public safety
CEDAR FALLS - A couple of weeks ago, Jay Kohl, Cedar Falls public safety director, said there is no gag order on Cedar Falls police and fire employees.
But here we are two weeks later with a longtime Cedar Falls police officer, Dave Bond, being dragged before a hearing for possible discipline for expressing his opinions on concerns he has with officer and citizen safety.
I have read and reread Dave's letter to the Courier and agree that Dave has the right and duty to express his opinions about safety issues.
And even though Rick Ahlstrom, Kohl's newly appointed deputy public safety director, was quoted (saying) that Bond's opinions were only those of one person, there was a letter from the Cedar Falls Police Association in the paper supporting Dave's comments.
It is ironic that Mr. Bond, who earlier this decade served with other American troops in Desert Storm to help promote freedom of speech, would find himself a few years later being dragged before a hearing for exercising that right.
Mr. Bond should have the freedom of speech that he and other servicemen and women have risked their lives to provide for us all. Mr. Bond is not one to back off from doing what he thinks is right.
The men and women of the Cedar Falls police and fire units have serious concerns that need to be listened to and addressed. Suppression of the rights of freedom of expression is not the way to handle this matter. Cedar Falls citizens should become better informed as to what Mr. Kohl is up to. I assume Mr. Kohl won't be able to have a hearing to discipline all of us for expressing our American rights.
JON CREWS
CEDAR FALLS - When Cedar Falls Public Safety Director Paul Hoffey retired, Administrative Services provided the City Council with several scenarios with projected administrative costs for Public Safety operations (not including bargaining unit salaries).
Returning to separate divisions, each with a chief and an assistant chief, had a projected annual cost of $647,775, compared to $578,025 for the current arrangement. By replacing the director, the council supported the almost $70,000 cost savings of the current arrangement. Assertions that this is "fleecing" the public are contrary to fact.
The council tries to hold the line on taxes and spending, while trying to provide adequate services. As public funding sources decrease, we must set certain goals in response.
Those goals include reducing overtime costs and increasing efficiency in all divisions. We also have opted to develop volunteer components in Public Safety. They appear to be working well, although understandable concerns exist.
Economically, the current arrangement makes the most sense. Philosophically, decent and honest people can disagree on issues concerning the structure and operation of Public Safety. While this debate was supposedly resolved over a decade ago, it is with us once more. How we all discuss these issues is critical to our community.
I urge citizens to seek verifiable facts as they express opinions. Resist using tactics that inappropriately demean and discredit public officials (such as Jay Kohl), who welcome constructive and informed criticism that deserve serious attention. Try not to be "used" by others who may be advancing specific political agendas.
Hopefully, our public safety personnel will work within the system to make their concerns known. There are protocols and procedures for this that are quite effective, and these concerns will be heard and acted upon in appropriate ways.
We should discuss these issues at a more constructive level that will better serve everyone.
PAUL E. RIDER, SR.
46th Ward Council
Mayor Pro Tem
C.F. Public Safety
NEVIS, Minn. - As a former resident of Cedar Falls for 30 years and a former Cedar Falls police officer, I was very interested in reading the news articles and editorials that have appeared in your newspaper. I find it very difficult to understand the following:
1. Why was a veteran police captain with an impeccable record doing the job of the present public safety director and the police deputy director for approximately one year, not appointed police deputy director? Having personally known Dean Williams for many years, it was evident that Public Safety Director Jay Kohl felt intimidated by a person such as Williams, who has stood for unquestioned professionalism in his police work, loyalty and confidence from people working under him and a community such as Cedar Falls, which felt he was so slighted they gave him an "appreciation day" with over 200 people attending.
2. Why did the mayor of Cedar Falls hire a person to fill the public safety director position with a man who has a background that cannot be investigated? Articles I have read in your newspaper have Mr. Kohl not talking about this past due to a court order prohibiting such disclosure. Mr. Mayor, what has Kohl done that he cannot and will not disclose this case with the citizens of Cedar Falls? How can you, as the leader of your community, hire someone and put him in a position of such importance with no background check. Unbelievable.
3. Officer Dave Bond is now in a position of being reprimanded or possibly fired for writing his opinion in your newspaper regarding what is happening to the Cedar Falls Police Department and the people of Cedar Falls regarding their safety. If Mr. Kohl thinks that by "beating up" on a patrol officer will quiet the ranks, he is sadly mistaken.
Wake up, City Council members of Cedar Falls. People are talking, and you had better listen.Dennis Saak
City on right track
CEDAR FALLS - Many writers lately seem to validate their complaint letters to the Courier with the phrase "long-time resident." Somehow this enables them to pass a credibility test for their viewpoint.
As a short-timer I find it odd that I find myself defending the city to these longtime residents. Perhaps they need my yardstick, created from experience in many communities, to measure just how lucky I feel we are to live here.
We have a thoughtful and dedicated City Council and mayor who were overwhelmingly elected to office last fall supporting the public safety director position. They then asked new Public Safety Director Jay Kohl to be an agent of change to ensure that the city's police and fire services can efficiently and effectively operate into the next decade. I think he can do that. And, I think we should be supporting him instead of grumbling that we don't want to go.
Already we are on our way to improved services at a lower cost in property taxes (every citizen wants that!) Director Kohl has reduced the number of managers (attrition) and increased the number of police officers and firefighters in the field. Police and fire equipment have been upgraded, and the Community Policing Program has expanded to assist in the correction of neighborhood nuisance problems.
Cedar Falls citizens can be proud of Director Kohl's efforts and the courage of our City Council in having the foresight to encourage change before it is mandated.
I encourage all longtime and short-time residents to look at the positives and not be misled by a few employees and their advocates who resist change to support their own personal interests, not the community's, and who seem to be doing it with verbal misinformation directed at the messenger.
Call the mayor, your City Council member, Director Kohl or the many professional dedicated police officers and fire fighters that I am proud to know, and say you're ready to go. Thanks!
TERRY BUCK
Council pay raises
CEDAR FALLS - I wonder if Mr. Terry Buck read the article in Sunday's paper, June 28, about "Mayor, council pay raise rules illegal."
I think maybe he should listen to the "long-time residents." He should find himself "a different yard stick."
I agree with Scott Jordan. We need more council members like him.
As for paying the money back, I think they should have to. I know of employers who overpaid an employee a few bucks more than they should have and the employee had to pay it back. So what makes them any different?
I think the citizens of Cedar Falls had better wake up to what's going on within our city government.
Roy Direcks
Public safety issues
CEDAR FALLS - Since Paul E. Rider, Sr., 46th Ward Council ( I didn't realize Cedar Falls was that large ) Mayor Pro Tem (letter to editor, June 18) has eloquently written the city's side of the public safety issues, I have some questions.
Seventy-thousand dollars savings with our safety director system. Are other communities standing in line to get information how they, too, can follow in our footsteps?
Was this debate resolved a "decade ago" or was only half the debate resolved; i.e., only the Fire Department lost it's chief, the Police Department chief was promoted.
Volunteerism appears to be working. I ask how much "turnover" and how well are they responding to emergencies?
Paul, the appearance is that Mayor Ed and his council hired a "hatchet man," and now we have two demoralized departments. What are the protocols and procedures to express concerns? And when go public?
What is a more constructive level?
Is it "cower," "kowtow," "grovel," or "quit" - "against," "intimidation," "bully" or "browbeat"?
Larry D. Ohl
Editor's note: Paul Rider represents the 4th ward. There was a typographical error on our part at the end of his letter.
City hall communications
LA PORTE CITY - After reading the front-page article on Jay Kohl being a finalist for a public safety director's job in North Carolina, it certainly leaves lots of questions on how this can happen.
Is this the process that allows people like Kohl to move from one city to another without anyone knowing anything of their past? Mayor Ed Stachovic did not know he had even applied for the job, and yet he became a finalist for it. I guess if you apply for a position of safety director, and have an armload of degrees from anywhere in the U.S.A., you are automatically considered for the job.
Doesn't anyone check and at least try to find out if this person was anything but trouble in his previous position. This article said Stachovic seemed for the most part unruffled at the news. He should have, and probably was, so happy to think Kohl may be leaving he was speechless. Kohl's leaving may be the only way Stachovic will be re-elected.
It also makes you wonder why a person getting over $75,000 yearly would apply for a job that may pay as little at $41,000 or up to $65,000.
Keith K. Crowley
CEDAR FALLS - I would like to comment on Mr. (Terry) Buck's letter appearing in last Sunday's paper (July 5), "Cedar Falls is on the right track." Right track to what? City manager-type of government with Mr. Kohl the manager. The citizens of Cedar Falls voted that down a few years ago. Were you around then, Mr. Buck?
I think this city is large enough (population and area wise) to have more police officers and firemen, as well as more city employees to take care of this city. We enlarge the city limits of Cedar Falls and then expect to decrease the number of workers. I have my suspicions that in the not-to-distant future everything will be turned over to private contractors. The street department, the garbage pick up, the police, the fire department, etc., and the citizens of Cedar Falls will have nothing to say about it.
Let's get back to our police chief and our fire chiefs who have been around a lot longer than Mr. Kohl. At least then you would have one boss for their respective departments instead of half a dozen, which seems to be the case now.
If the mayor doesn't want to run this city, like he was elected to do, then maybe he should resign and take Mr. Kohl with him.
To the city council, you have been in office too long and have become a bunch of "yes" people. The only time I have seen any councilman against anything was Mr. (Stan) Smith on the voting matter. If he had not spoken up, you would have voted to let anyone with the highest number of votes become elected.
I am getting tired of hearing Cedar Valley area. It's never Cedar Falls and Waterloo anymore. We have lost our own identity.
Ethelyn Webrand
City Leadership
CEDAR FALLS - Regarding Ethelyn Webrand's letter on July 12 about the Cedar Falls government being "right on track." I have enjoyed Cedar Falls since January 1969, and have followed the course of its political life through the ups and downs and battles that have resulted in giving us a pretty good city.
Now we are in one of those stumbles that any good city suffers, but from which we can hope the voters will save us. The present mayor seems determined to establish a firmly controlled dictatorship over police, fire and contracts. A high-paid enforcer has been installed with power to destroy our fine police and fire departments and all aspects of business and safety.
Over the years I have met many members of the police as well as fire people and found them to be bright and knowledgeable, quick to respond to calls and cheerfully courteous in handling matters. As in any organization, efficiency and best results come when each group has dedicated and experienced persons in control. I do not believe that happens when some hot shot takes over and scrambles the city service, which usually manage to evolve solid methods as they roll along. At any rate, I hope more people adopt the outspoken ways of Ethelyn and speak out.
Truman Tedlie
C.F. public safety
CEDAR FALLS - Mr. (Jay) Kohl, Cedar Falls public safety director, ordered an ill-advised hearing to consider disciplining Officer Dave Bond for possible false statements made by Mr. Bond. The Cedar Falls Police Association made a public statement that they agreed with fellow Officer Bond's statements. Logic would maintain that Mr. Kohl might now have a hearing for all members of the Cedar Falls Police Association.
Trying to repress the freedom of speech of one or 100 police officers is wrong. Mr. Bond wrote the letter as a citizen, not as an officer of the law. If I had written the letter, not a thing would have been said or done. This episode is a slap in the face to each citizen of this (or any) city.
Any person who ever worked anywhere knows, hears, or sees dissension, and the city of Cedar Falls has many who are not at all pleased with the hiring of Mr. Kohl for the position first held by Mr. (Paul) Hoffey, for a position that is not needed. Does the office of public safety director have the experience and know-how of the police officers or fire officers at the scene? Why waste valuable time asking somebody who may not be as well versed?
Is the city now "out shopping" the work of people we already pay to work for us (police and fire personnel)? Wouldn't just about everyone prefer to have people with more training and experience looking out for them?
Is the mayor of Cedar Falls blessing us with a "city manager" form of government without a vote?
Edwin Marsh
City accountability
CEDAR FALLS - What in the world is going on in the Cedar Falls city government? Tonight's paper (Aug. 25) contained an alarming article about the gag order in place in Cedar Falls. The city administrator, city personnel and the mayor are saying "false, inaccurate, or misleading statements will not be tolerated."
Gee, does that mean the citizenry of Cedar Falls (and the nation) have the right to demand the same of elected and appointed officials? Wouldn't that be a change of pace? Hasn't history shown the "accuracy" of a view is largely dependent on which side you are on? Doesn't "accuracy" depend on when knowledge is acquired? Makes me wonder:
1. Haven't a lot of the problems in Cedar Falls started after the untimely death of Duke Young?
2. Dave Bond's earlier letter to the editor is compared to yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, yet there were numerous other officers who also voiced concerns - all of these are "inaccurate."
Who has the most to lose there? Where are the checks and balances? Who is responsible for investigating the upper levels of city government? Public Safety Director Jay Kohl already looking for another job? Who makes the decision to hire? What is the common thread in all the discord? The mayor? The city administrator? (according to the article he is pointing to personnel. A diversion?) Are we to believe these are all random, unconnected events?
3. City Attorney Steve Moore "declined to comment on the policy until he had time to meet with the administration." Suppose he wanted to talk about the First Amendment, or was he waiting to be told what he could say?
There are many questions that need to be asked, and accurate, truthful information (without misrepresentation) gathered. City officials should be prepared to deliver what they are being explicit in expecting of all employees.
Wake up Cedar Falls - hold city government accountable.
Bonny Hall
C.F. truth policy
WATERLOO - Perhaps the Cedar Falls City Council should be the first ones penalized for making false statements in regard to the new acceptable behaviors policy they voted on last week.
For them to say that this "didn't stem from any particular incident" is insulting. Anyone in their minds realizes that if Officer (Dave) Bond hadn't made the statements he did, then this would have never come about.
What this new policy does for them is give them the ability to fire the next employee that says anything bad about the city. So since the council says this "didn't stem from any particular incident," then they should be the first ones accused of making false statements, and they should be fired. But that's not for me to say because luckily I don't live in Cedar Falls, although I think the people of C.F. need to take note of what the council is doing.
The employees of the city of Cedar Falls now have to be extra careful about what they say to anyone. I don't think there is anyone out there who hasn't made a bad comment about their employer at some point in their lives. Now workers for Cedar Falls can be fired for it at the drop of a hat - there's a wale-up call!
With all the trouble that the city of Cedar Falls has had the last couple months with these issues, it makes me more and more proud to live in Waterloo. It seems to me the only ones making false statements around Cedar Falls are the people elected to run it, and I hope the residents of Cedar Falls know what to do about it when election time rolls around.
Erik Renkel
Mayoral comparisons
HUDSON - When I last addressed the subject of "our mayor" (Cedar Falls) in a letter to the editor some weeks back, I equated him to the Renaissance Man. Upon reflection, I now believe I was wrong, and think that there are, perhaps, several comparisons that might be just a tad more fitting for his honor.
One that comes to mind is: "L'etat, c'est moi."
Another is the man born Armand Jean du Plessis.
Still another might be Maximilien Robespierre.
It's just a coincidence that all three men are from French history.
At the moment, I prefer the last character. After all, it was he who came up with the committee of Public Safety (sound familiar?) with its reign of terror, It's putting out a gag order on free speech the political equivalent to guillotining someone?
Arby Kay
Concerns for public safety
CEDAR FALLS - The Sept. 10 Courier contained an article about two recent fires, one in Waterloo and one in Cedar Falls. It made me proud to be a 25-year Waterloo firefighter, but sad to be a 30-year Cedar Falls resident. Sad because of the direction, or should that be the misdirection, chosen by our city leaders. They have chosen to severely limit the number of emergency response personnel, ignore, skirt or interpret to suit the OSHA, NFPA, Iowa Civil Service laws and good common sense.
While spending countless hours worrying about truth in City Hall and putting layers of deputy directors of something under a little-needed public safety director, they have reduced the number of those we need to show up at our door in time of need. Time and numbers is a game they play, but too long a time and too few in numbers will cost an ultimate price.
If they want to gamble, send them to Tama, but quit doing it with my family's lives. I'm sure if they lose their bet, it will look like a "Family Circus" cartoon at City Hall - more "Not Me" than we care to see.
Rick Phillips
C.F. Public Safety
CEDAR FALLS - With regard to my esteemed colleague, Barbara Brown's recent article concerning the Cedar Falls Public Safety Department, I see nothing in the list of accomplishments that could not have been accomplished without the extra layer of management over the police and firemen.
Stanley G. Smith, Council Member, Ward 5
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