How do we unseal the mins from the March 20 and March 23 BOS non-public sessions?
The people of Nottingham and beyond deserve to know what and why information is being deliberately hidden from them. Hiding behind the excuses of ‘following town attorneys advice’ and ‘can’t comment on personnel issues’ have expired. Time to unseal so we can see for ourselves what exactly was said that lead to a police escort, an investigation, admin leave without a discussion with the accused, etc.
As the town might get sued over these matters, I'm pretty sure that these things cannot yet be done, except, perhaps if the voters approved doing so at town meeting.
‘The closest thing I have to that is a private communication from a former member of town government who said the former Chief was a prick who was difficult to work with and who had run off employees’.
Interesting. Very interesting.
Wonder what this former member’s role was in town govt?
Wonder if they were 1 of the previous selectmen responsible for putting the Vilchock’s on leave without any discussion?
Unless someone wants to go on the record - which people don't normally want to do for comments like that - I don't reveal who privately communicate such things to me. I will say it was not either of the two former selectmen who are responsible for the decision.
Also, as far as I know the selectmen did have a discussion on this, during the non-public sessions on March 20 and 23. The minutes for those sessions are sealed at the moment, but there are ways to get them eventually unsealed.
I know lots of people like to play the blame game, focusing on who did what. I hope to direct attention to how things are done. The people involved constantly turn over. The systems persist. If we can make the systems better, the systems can better deal with the inevitable human errors.
The firehouse is built on training, procedure and tradition that emphasizes personnel safety not their feelings.
How do we unseal the mins from the March 20 and March 23 BOS non-public sessions?
The people of Nottingham and beyond deserve to know what and why information is being deliberately hidden from them. Hiding behind the excuses of ‘following town attorneys advice’ and ‘can’t comment on personnel issues’ have expired. Time to unseal so we can see for ourselves what exactly was said that lead to a police escort, an investigation, admin leave without a discussion with the accused, etc.
As the town might get sued over these matters, I'm pretty sure that these things cannot yet be done, except, perhaps if the voters approved doing so at town meeting.
‘The closest thing I have to that is a private communication from a former member of town government who said the former Chief was a prick who was difficult to work with and who had run off employees’.
Interesting. Very interesting.
Wonder what this former member’s role was in town govt?
Wonder if they were 1 of the previous selectmen responsible for putting the Vilchock’s on leave without any discussion?
So many questions remain unanswered.
Unless someone wants to go on the record - which people don't normally want to do for comments like that - I don't reveal who privately communicate such things to me. I will say it was not either of the two former selectmen who are responsible for the decision.
Also, as far as I know the selectmen did have a discussion on this, during the non-public sessions on March 20 and 23. The minutes for those sessions are sealed at the moment, but there are ways to get them eventually unsealed.
I know lots of people like to play the blame game, focusing on who did what. I hope to direct attention to how things are done. The people involved constantly turn over. The systems persist. If we can make the systems better, the systems can better deal with the inevitable human errors.
A town department "staff meeting" that was concluded with a chaplain saying a prayer. WTF?