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Commissioner responds to Johnson
Ron Kim issues the following member to his department last Thursday. I retyped this document for your information, please note that any typos are mine, and not the commissioner's.
TO: All DPS Staff
FROM: Ronald Kim, Commissioner of Public Safety
CC: City Council members
DATE: April 10, 2008
Recently, the Mayor announced a radical, illegal, and ill-advised interpretation of the Charter in which he has commanded the Director of Human Resources to report directly to him regarding all personnel matter of this Department. Because this is clearly a misreading of the current charter and an unfortunate attempt to politicize the important work of ensuring the public safety of this community, I am directing until further notice that all employees of the Department of Public Safety cease and desist in any further direct communication with the Human Resources Director. I realize this is an unfortunate results given the quality assistance that Marcy Brydges has given us over the past few years, but until I can be assured that her work, professional advice and counsel to this department is confidential, it is the only proper course under the existing charter.
Please direct any questions regarding this to either Deputy Commissioner Finneran or myself.
Thanks
Sincerly,
Ron Kim
Commissioner of Public Safety
TO: All DPS Staff
FROM: Ronald Kim, Commissioner of Public Safety
CC: City Council members
DATE: April 10, 2008
Recently, the Mayor announced a radical, illegal, and ill-advised interpretation of the Charter in which he has commanded the Director of Human Resources to report directly to him regarding all personnel matter of this Department. Because this is clearly a misreading of the current charter and an unfortunate attempt to politicize the important work of ensuring the public safety of this community, I am directing until further notice that all employees of the Department of Public Safety cease and desist in any further direct communication with the Human Resources Director. I realize this is an unfortunate results given the quality assistance that Marcy Brydges has given us over the past few years, but until I can be assured that her work, professional advice and counsel to this department is confidential, it is the only proper course under the existing charter.
Please direct any questions regarding this to either Deputy Commissioner Finneran or myself.
Thanks
Sincerly,
Ron Kim
Commissioner of Public Safety
posted by The Saratogian City Desk at
5:04 PM
5 Comments:
Kim doesn't not have the City's best interest at heart.
He is an embarassment and should be voted out of office.
"Like sands through the hourglass... so are the Days of Our Lives."
“...the only proper course under the existing charter.”
would be to read the Charter and render unto the Mayor the things which are the Mayor's, and to the Commissioner the things which are not the Mayor's.
Sincerely.
Anonymous said...8:30 PM
“...the only proper course under the existing charter.”
Yes, it is obvious what course of action Kim is taking.
Kim seems to think that putting the interest of the employees working in his department (Public Safety) over the interest of the City is his mandate.
I think the voters will have a somewhat different mandate in the next election.
Ron Kim is right in this matter but we certainly need to stop all this madness. The Human Resource's Director is a top notch administrator and should not be put in the middle. We really need to change the form of government and then there would be no question to who is in charge.
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