Bubba Comegys’ latest stunt – to spend down the City’s reserve funds for police overtime pay and a “crime prevention specialist” – is not just plain stupid. It shows why the City should adopt a detailed “line item” budget rather than the broad “program” budget that Comegys favors, in which there are only total amounts for the departments.
As Mayor Ireton has pointed out, Comegys is apparently not aware that more than $162,000 is now available in the budget for police overtime pay and the City already has several specialists in crime prevention.
Comegys has responded by his standard effort to discredit the person who cleaned his clock in this year’s election, now resorting to the kind of name calling for which Bubba is infamous. Do you recall “CAVE People”?
And there are other significant questions. For example: why does Chief Webster routinely reject the offer of Sheriff Mike Lewis for law enforcement assistance by the County Sheriff’s Department if the City’s force is undermanned? And if real crime is such a problem why is Webster wasting time on a meaningless surveillance tape that the police gave to someone over 10 years ago?
Bubba’s budget amendment scheme and behavior has made it even more apparent that Salisbury needs a different Police Chief (and one who resides here) and why Comegys should not be on the City Council. The Mayor should fire Webster, and the voters should dump Comegys in the next City election.
More to come.......
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You see what ones smarts are when one comes outta the graveyard.
It is not the fault of the Police Chief that ECI releases prisoners to Salisbury. Why not be part of the solution and not part of the problem. There is a lot of good done by the Chief. Joe simply has a woody for him
Can you name one thing proactive the chief has done in 10 years?
Times up.
11:01- Like what good has Chiefy done?
11:01, Ok suck up or the chief. Stop being blind and look at all the stuff he could have done or should have done that would have made SPD the best, now it is laughed at. Yeah the Chief has done so much. Then name them. Let us know, make a list, inform us. We sure can't see it. While you make that list, ask the chief to list all the people that work their, without looking their names up.
anon 11:01 Tell me what in hell has chief Webster done ??? Nobody blamed him for the release of ECI prisoners to Salisbury. Get with the program , I like a lot of people including Joe want him OUT !!!!
You know what is sad about last night's meeting - the "3" council members didn't stay to hear what the citizens had to say to the Mayor...they need to go too.
For starters, chief could put on a uniform rather than being "a suit", and the chief should at least live here.
I want to thank councilwomen Cohen and Campbell for Staying for the meeting. The other three ran like dogs. The chief was not staying around either. He walked thru the crowd as if to step on anyone who got in his way. I think he should have stayed for the meeting so he could hear first hand the comments. Instead he had 3 or 4 policemen there for him....and they were NOT in uniform either.
The people have spoken, It is obvious that those who care about the citizens, who work hard for the citizens stayed at the meeting, of course they did. The people are finally seeing what the three bobble heads have been doing all along. It includes some really preposterous stuff, I am so happy that the citizens are finally speaking out, I think they have been there all along, they voted for Jim Ireton, we knew they cared, and last night they finally came out in support of him, and finally came to his defense against all the wrongs. I found it to be spectacular. Thanks,to all those who are trying to make Salisbury a great city.
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