Forest View Debt Assistance

A management position requires experience and a proven track record of some kind.  We already know that our village president appointed a fire chief with no experience. As for his track record?  It looks like he can’t even manage his own finances.  With his home in the beginning stages of foreclosure for defaulting with an $80,000 SBA lien on top, what does the fire chief do?  He goes on a Disney vacation.  He will soon be renting a home in town like our one trustee who lost her home in foreclosure.

Firemen get to sleep in the fire station when they are on duty.  Soon the fire chief will be living in the fire station.

Great pick there Larry! This dude can’t even manage his own finances and you have him managing the fire department.  Maybe that is why he needed the high paying chief job so bad.  Did you know about this Larry?  Was this all part of the plan to get him back on his feet?  I guess it didn’t work out the way you all planned.

Allowing the deputy chief to steal from the village with his specially crafted super secret overtime deal and now this.  Free village money for all! Where do we sign up?

Rubber Stamp for Sale

When village code is changed it needs to be approved by the elected officials.  A topic we know has come up is what we have been preaching for the past couple months.  The deputy chief has been getting paid overtime and collecting compensatory time.  A deputy chief is an exempt position which should not be entitled to comp time.  Our published village code says the same thing, the deputy chief is not allowed to get overtime.  Another closed door deal by the village people.  This type of deal should have been approved by the village board but when you ask them, they have no recollection of making such a deal or approving the change of the village code.  What is so special about this deputy chief that everyone lays out the red carpet wherever he steps?

Mr. Wellington is Mad

To the angry commentator:

Yes we get you are mad that blog readers have put you on blast about your past. We almost want to ask Google to comply with the court order identifying comment IP addresses they received but we don't want you to cause those who witnessed your actions to have to testify. We are told that they are more than willing to come forward.  Google has rejected the order and will continue to do so until they find that this blog has violated any laws or use policies.

We may not know exactly what was voted on or why but what we do know is that we don't want someone who has foreclosed on a home and doesn't own a home in our village making any kind of financial decisions on our behalf. We don't know much about you Mr. Wellington.  You don't know much about us either although you think you do.  We do know that like the deputy chief, you too have burned many people in your cop career, so many that we have an inbox full of stories from people who don't even work for our village. We also know that you don't live in our village to care about what we care about.  We do have a job and unlike you, we sometimes work the first shift.  We hide behind a blog because we live here and we don't want to be another target for Larry Powell who has a history of targeting residents who violate his rules even when they don't.   We barked and we bit, bit so hard that you take time out of your day to write to us and spend money on lawyers to find a way to silence the truth.

Moral of the story: Don't do things you aren't supposed to when at work. Be honest and don't always look out just for only you. People may begin to like you again.

FunnyView

Taxes for You, Not for Me!

The right thing to do would be to exclude yourself from a vote that will raise taxes when you don’t even pay taxes. But one of the members on our village board could care less if you pay higher taxes. She voted YES on a tax hike that wouldn’t affect her since she doesn’t even own property within our village.  In fact, she lost her job and foreclosed on her home.  Even after we made mention of the non-tax paying member of the village board, she went ahead and voted in favor of a tax hike for all of us.  A tax hike needed to pay for the over-inflated salary paid to the unqualified fire chief and the deputy chief that this village does not need.  With the addition of Federal Express to the tax revenue stream, we should not need any additional taxes.  Maybe Larry should call Bedford Park and ask them how to run a village.

We need to hold those town hall meetings that we use to have under Grenvich. But Larry won’t do it because he can’t answer questions under pressure.

Days of Our Lives

While Chicago has their own drama series with the stuper-intendent losing his job over a hot date, Forest View doesn’t fall short of hot date drama either.  We hear that there is video in someone‘s possession of a former dispatcher getting up close and personal with Forest View’s deputy chief while at the cop station.  This dispatcher was known for collecting what cops call belt keepers which hold their utility belts in place one they reached home plate.  The dispatcher would visit the Forest View police department after her shift in a nearby town. That dispatcher was later hired by the deputy chief to work part-time in the Forest View cop station.  After a work related disagreement, she abruptly quit but was heard commenting that the deputy chief was an asshole.

Wonder if he ran out of belt keepers.

Forest View is Hiring!

Hey Eddie, you fit right in here in Forest View!  Where our board allows the police chief and his appointee to lie all the time!  Put in an application, NO BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIRED! Just ask for Salvador Gomez Rodriguez when you apply.  Be sure to use Salvador’s friends as references so your application makes the "people we know" cut.