Remember the snit the Woodstock P.D. got into over having the Permanent Beat Officers attend the Coffees with the Chief. I wrote about that a short time ago. An arbitration decided in favor of the senior officers and against the City.
It wasn't the principal (or amount thereof); it was the principle! It was about honoring a contract that it had willingly entered into. Willingly? Of course! The City would not have signed a contract unwillingly. (Would it have?)
Well, it looks like the City is cranking up its legal muscle now and that it will file an appeal to the arbitrator's decision in McHenry County Circuit Court.
I read the arbitrator's decision; it was sound. He was right.
Is the Woodstock Police Department hanging around the Sheriff's office too much? The sheriff recently disagreed with an arbitrator's ruling and labeled it as "repugnant to public policy."
Well, I find it repugnant to public policy to blow thousands of dollars on legal fees for a court case that is about, maybe, $512 worth of overtime.
The City of Woodstock isn't just "crying wolf" over lost revenues and operations expenses. There are going to be some big cuts around here. Yet it believes it has the money to send the City Attorney up the street to 2200 N. Seminary on a peanuts case that will drag 12-18 months, with regular appearances every month before some kind judge. Who will be the lucky judge? What is the estimated cost of this appeal?
Woodstock needs to eat the $512 and honor the contract it signed with the officers!
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3 months ago
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I suspect there are many civil actions that are currently going on between the City of Woodstock and its varions departments employees that we will never know about except from blogs like yours; the media in this county is certainly pro big government and imcumbents. The Internet is our only hope or another newspaper that is not afraid of printing the truth. Big government reaches into big goverments tax payers funded pockets and beats the victim of this kind of modus operandi (mode of action)into submission. Usually the victim of this gives up because he or she runs of money; but not all the time. If you can perservere usually the truth comes out and the culprits are found out;hopefully losing their jobs, paying out large sums of money or being shamed and disgraced.
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