We'll be keeping our fingers crossed that the Commission will boldly embrace its jurisdictional responsibilities in this matter, and unequivocally step down hard, once and for all, against this facially-immoral "double-dipping practice"
Following up on its April 24 story, the Standard now reports that OPD Sgt. Blaine Clifford's grievance matter, objecting to the "Ogden Police Department's practice of allowing selected high-ranking officers to "double dip" salary and pension," was heard yesterday by the Ogden City Civil Service Commission:
For the sake of Sgt. Clifford, we're delighted that the Ogden City Council, back in 2006, wisely preserved the Civil Service Commission, even in the face of mean-spirited Utah legislation which allowed for its dissolution.
We'll be keeping our fingers crossed that the Commission will boldly embrace its jurisdictional responsibilities in this matter, and unequivocally step down hard, once and for all, against this facially-immoral "double-dipping practice."
That's our take; and we're stickin' to it.
So what say our gentle readers about all this?
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4 comments:
This officer, Sgt. Blaine Clifford, probably has a valid beef. But what good is it?
It's complaining about cronyism in the Godfrey administration, to a board that is probably a bunch of Godfrey cronies!
It's like complaining about chocolate in Candyland.
Like complaining about rides at Disneyland.
Like complaining about corn in a cornfield.
Like complaining about salt in the ocean.
Godfrey Administration = corruption and cronyism.
Blaine, you gotta work under the system you're in.
But just think, in a few months, no more Godfrey. The pin that holds it together will be pulled.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Glad to see this hasn't dropped off the radar. Hopefully the good ol boy system which not only unfairly keeps officers from promoting but also enriches the retired and hruts the taxpayer gets fixed.
Off topic- according to an article in the SLC Trib Grama committee recommends only minor tweaks:
Group: GRAMA just needs minor tweaks
Open records » Still unresolved are texts, constituent email. By BROOKE ADAMS The Salt Lake Tribune There will be no sweeping overhaul, but instead a few tweaks, some clarifications and a recognition that Utah's openrecords law is pretty great after all.That's the outcome of the GRAMA Working Group, which on Wednesday finished a three- month effort to review the state's Government Records Access and Management Act and suggest ways to make it better. The group left unresolved some issues at the heart of the records debate: how to deal with text messages and other new technologies, and what protections, if any, to give constituent email. But it did come up with other recommendations to make the law more efficient, better understood and to potentially avoid some contentious disputes that are the bane of both those seeking records and government employees filling requests.
Precisely why this grass roots group is taking on the subject of ethics in Ogden government with the upcoming candidates. Check it out
www.ogdenethics.org
Right, Carolyn. We at Weber County Forum will be standing by watching and waiting to see whether this committee-propelled web/blog group will lead, or add anything particularly useful to the discussion.
For now though, WCF is the local leader for discussions on the subject of ethics, AFAWC. And even assuming this new committee/group performs to our highest expectations, we @ WCF won't be ceding the online discussion of the highest standards of ethics to this, or any other online ethics "authority."
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