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11-28-2008, 01:58 PM #1
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CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
CRB = charter review board
Originally Posted by Stan Zimmerman, Pelican Press"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is SUCCESS." -- Henry Ford
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11-28-2008, 02:06 PM #2
Re: CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
Sure, turn all the constitutional officers into appointments under county government. Just another way to give Jim Ley more power. Does he have the CRB in his pocket also?
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11-28-2008, 02:33 PM #3
Re: CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
After reading about the crazy actions of constitutional officer Jim Todora (he has a really bad tit for tat against the guy who beat him in the election) and after seeing the SSO have a political meltdown every 4 years when the elections roll around, the CRB should look closely at the issue of appointing the Sarasota sheriff. Should politics (elections) have anything to do with the top cop? :roll:
If we appoint the sheriff, then the county commissioners can:
- set hiring standards for applicants for this position
- remove him/her from office if they're incompetent (like Balkwill or whoever)
It would also mean that the Sarasota deputies union can negotiate directly with the county commissioners (they hold the purse strings anyways), which is exactly how the Sarasota firefighters do it. Currently, the deputies have to negotiate through a middleman (an elected sheriff) for pay raises. An elected sheriff doesn't hold the purse strings (an elected sheriff has to ask the county commissioners for money for his budget).
The CRB can also choose to keep the title of sheriff intact, even as an appointed position, but it has to be written into the charter. Citizens would be more likely to vote for an appointed sheriff instead of an appointed director because it's all about semantics and psychology. Then we could still keep our sheriff and have him appointed too.
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11-28-2008, 02:37 PM #4
Re: CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
Originally Posted by Guest
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11-28-2008, 03:25 PM #5
Re: CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
If you're got a good elected sheriff, then life is good, but if you're got an incompetent sheriff, then the sheriff's office becomes a circus, which is what happened under clown master extraordinaire Bill Balkwill.
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11-28-2008, 04:10 PM #6
Re: CRB examines whether SSO sheriff should be appointed
Originally Posted by clown master extraordinaire
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