Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Wdk. BOFPC to meet Mon., June 1

The next quarterly Regular Meeting of the Woodstock Board of Fire and Police Commissioners is scheduled for Monday, June 1, 2010, according to an agenda posted on the City's website.

One agenda item is the approval of Commission Minutes for March 2, 2009, March 12, 2009 and May 13, 2009. No, those aren't typos... These Minutes are more than a year old and have not been approved by the Commissioners.

An item of New Business is Discussion of New Rules for Recruitment - Process and Timeline, and Job Requirements. That ought to be short, since the City probably won't be hiring any new police officers for a while. The City is cutting budgets and tightening the purse strings on all operations, and it has eligibility lists already established. The discussion about a recruitment test date ought to be very short.

Surely, the City is not going to spend (waste) money testing applicants for jobs that don't exist. Is it? Or is this a revenue generator for the City? If it advertises non-existent jobs and charges each of 300-400 applicants $30-40, ... well, get the picture?

Another item of discussion is Email Notification to the Board. They already had that discussion a year ago, and one commissioner told them that he doesn't use email. Is he coming into the Space Age? Or will there be a replacement of Commissioner? That's not on the agenda.

And then there is Page 2 - an Executive Session. "The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee to determine its validity."

No agenda item is included for Action on any item discussed in Executive Session. Will that omission prevent the Board from taking any action?

A year ago the City Attorney sent a letter to the Board, telling them to schedule training time pertaining to the Open Meetings Act. The Board hasn't done it, and the City hasn't pushed it. Why not? Seems to me that if the Board is unwilling to comply with a directive from the City, maybe it's time for the mayor to replace the Board.

The meeting will be held at 5:00PM in Council Chambers at City Hall.

Oh, by the way, the meeting is probably on Tuesday, June 1st. If you show up on Monday, I think you'll find the building locked for Memorial Day.

1 comment:

Gus said...

A revised agenda has now been posted, correcting the day to Tuesday (June 1), adding Open Meetings Act training, removing the approval for the March and May 2009 Minutes, removing the Executive Session, and other changes.