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From the Middletown Journal:

"Adkins also announced the city’s 2015 initiatives that include the hiring of a communications intern to focus on improving the city’s image in the region; additional police task forces to reduce crime; using a new grant to demolish abandoned houses; creating career development opportunities for employees; increased code enforcement city-wide and an expanded economic development department by adding two assistant economic development directors and setting concrete goals for the department."

I'll have to check with those laid-off fire fighters and see if they are qualified to be either a "communications intern" or an "assistant economic development director".

I can only image what those jobs will pay!

All the while the SAFER grant is available to the city at no cost to retain fire fighters, Adkins wants to make up new jobs that will directly drain the city's budget.

Still haven't seen Adkins address his misinformation concerning fire fighters making overtime when they work their normal 51 hour work week.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote bumper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Oct 10 2014 at 7:25am
heck might as well get rid of some more fire fighters so Adkins can fill city hall with just more BS!! he could hire like 10 more of these communications intern's to focus on improving the city’s image in the region and never put a dent on that image.. Confused and adding  two assistant economic development directors and setting concrete goals for the department."how many more of these do you need to screw in a light bulb??
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ashkicker Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Oct 16 2014 at 9:10pm
Heard a rumor today that Chief Van Arsdale was going to retire as Police Chief and become the NEW Public Safety Director.

Anybody else hear that?

If that's true, how many fire fighters had to be laid off to fund a new position?

Could this be Dougie's way to insulate himself even more to a catastrophic event?

Maybe I've fallen victim to the conspiracy theory syndrome!

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Public Safety Director?
Over police fire? though they have chiefs and unions--what power/control would he have?
Maybe assimilate the Health Dept.? Safety Council? Neighborhood Watch?
Housing?

Seems like a new home for higher wage double dippers?
If running our city gets considerably more expensive(with more layers/bodies of bureaucracy), how do we pay for it?
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Ash: I hear the the same thing. Along with a Public Safety director, a whole change on how fire admin. will be set up. This will be interesting. By the way, the city did have a Public Safety director several years ago.
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I have stated many times the problem in the beast called public wages and benefits in Middletown, has been the infliction of the union mentality, the influence of Armco/ AK unions, and entitlement, at Donham Abbey. While city management talk about cuts, talk about new ideas, innovation, new paradigms, alterations, thinking out of the box, nothing changes, because these same members of workers benefit from the same benefits. Its all talk, never action.

Hence, the double, triple dip, is the norm, and expected. Its a right of passage associated with retirement. It isn't going to change in Middletown, and it isn;t in corrupt Butler Cty. Its politics and cronyism at the norm. As it is, as it always be. But.....Middletown doesn;t need a Public Safety Officer. It needs revenue, which it is not receiving to keep up with expenses. Simple.

I had a friend who recently shared some insight about the land bank in Butler Cty and how it is working to reward friends. Evidently, the county bought Todd Bell's parents house, which is next door to the Nenni younger brother. He said he got West Niles virus from the old house Neil Barielle owned with a stagnant swimming pool in ground. The city with Mr. Adkins support, went in and tore out the swimming pool. Since the equipment was there, they moved down the street to the Bell's and tore down their house, vacated for a few years, and by faking it needed a new roof and all sorts of expensive repair so no one would bid on it. It was bought by the county for 63,000. in a neighborhood of $200,000 + houses, so the Nenni's would have the land for $500.

That;s how the county and city work, using state money, to do favors for friends.  House is destroyed for a parking spot for a family. Surreal.

Middletown will not change, and the leadership is not the same as it has been. Same people running the town into the ground, taking money for wasted use, new jobs for second and third dippers, and most just yawn.

Ground Hog daily, in the town falling deeper into despair while shouting we are on the road to recovery, we are marvelous. As the Burger King commercial used to say, "have it your way". Watch it become Detroit, and wonder why. There is no change, business as usual.    

 
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Acclaro -

Thanks for sharing more information about Herr Dougmeister. I suppose that he wasted more HUD funds to tear out the swimming pool, etc.? And, now Dougie has even more money to devastate Ward 2 and part of Ward 1 through residential demolition!
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Friends .....with benefits.

Attend the right school, F, drink wine, and dine, and get a nice perk

FWB- Friends with Benefits....this is how it is done.
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Dougie is working so hard to appeal to everybody that he is kissing so many butts I think he has chapped lips. All these new jobs are for the people that were being paid by HUD funds and now are out because those funds are gone. He probably promised them they wouldn't lose their jobs. So it will be fun to watch him juggle all those balls without dropping them.IMO
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He wants to get that big bonus at the end of the year they promised him if he delivers. The jobs being created are all in city building.IMO
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Only partially correct acclaro. Nix took care of the Nenni's, not Adkins. Now they park their four cars, two inside garage, two in front of torn down house in area filled with physicians. Someone told me she worked entirely on her MBA at Miami while at work as treasurer. But they keep voting these same individuals back in office, while prosecutor tries to take out Carpenter with Rogers assistance. Politics at its worse.   
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public Safety dee-rector requirements for the city require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting and to walk, stand, or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; to operate a vehicle to travel to various locations; to get snacks and lunch and to wait on quitting time...  
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In September there were 17 runs in the city by mutual aid departments with NO assistance by Middletown units. How long would it take Monroe or Franklin to get to your house? The non-FEF (first emergency first) model would cover the majority of those runs will an engine company to begin treatment before the mutual aid medic would arrive.

I know 17 runs out of 1000 runs per month seems like a very small number until it's you doing the 15-20 minute wait.

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