A Daily Times Op Ed Piece From Salisbury's Council President and Vice President

In a letter dated Nov. 12, Council President Louise Smith and Council Vice President Gary Comegys request Ireton address complaint letters from two councilwomen about Webster and find a way to settle the chief's dispute without spending any money on legal fees.

"There are some pretty serious charges that have been made here, and it just seems very divisive," Smith said. "This is an appeal to the mayor; please do something about this to bring it to resolution."

In the letter, Smith and Comegys reference letters submitted separately by Councilwomen Debbie Campbell and Terry Cohen to Ireton about one week apart in June. In the letters, the duo criticize Webster and request the documents be placed in the chief's personnel file. Ireton has made no official response to the letters publicly, and Smith and Comegys want to know what happened.

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The other two issues pertain to Webster's lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County on Nov. 3. Webster alleges the city and the mayor denied him a fair hearing for an employee grievance.

Ireton addressed the public in a news conference the following day, calling Webster's lawsuit "frivolous" and his actions "unlawful." Smith and Comegys take issue with Ireton's actions.
"He made some comments that weren't well thought out and he was being adversarial instead of being in a position where he tried to get folks to work together," Comegys said. "This whole situation shouldn't be politicized, and it's being politicized."

Ireton said Friday he had already issued a response to each council member, claiming some matters were "personnel issues" not to be discussed publicly and dismissing other issues as "semantics."

"I'm still going by the rules," Ireton said.

Campbell and Cohen refused to comment. Cohen said she hadn't seen Thursday's letter, and Campbell joined Ireton, refusing to comment and citing the issues as being personnel matters.
"I believe that this again is a personnel matter, and based on that, I question how and why it would be in the hands of the newspaper," Campbell said. "Because of that, I am not in a position to comment further."

Thursday's events are the latest in a string that began with Campbell's alleged illegal receipt of police surveillance evidence when she was employed by Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Service.

Councilwoman Shanie Shields said she'd rather not take sides, though she wants the issue resolved as soon as possible.

"It will be a sad day for Salisbury as a whole if this becomes ugly," she said. "Everybody needs to step back and take a deep breath and learn forgiveness. When you have vindictiveness and personal agendas, that steps in the way of doing what the citizens elected us to do."
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OK, now it's MY TURN!First of all, Jim Ireton is not only the Mayor of the City of Salisbury, he is Chiefy Webster's BOSS.

Now, Ireton didn't sue Chiefy and or the Taxpayers, Webster did. If ANYONE should be apologizing to anyone, if Gary and Louise didn't have their heads so far up their a$$es, they'd come to realize that it should be Webster apologizing and seeking to RESOLVE his issues with Ireton.

Webster has completely disrespected the Mayor's final decision. WEBSTER is the one costing the TAXPAYERS money, NOT Ireton. Where's the correspondences between Chiefy and the Mayor where the Chief has attempted to resolve these issues? Oh, that's right, it's a personnel matter, so Chiefy used his minions, (Louise & Gary) to go public for him because he's not man enough to stand up and fight for himself like a real man.

I'm personally sick of this man causing trouble as well as costing the taxpayers both financially as well as time consumption on the job to handle these cases. Remember Folks, lawyers work 9-5 just like Chiefy does. He can't be handling all of these lawsuits on his own time.

FIGHT CRIME CHIEFY, NOT OPINIONS.