Business as Usual

Unless your conspiracy post gets me a proper pay raise this year, I could give two shizzits about what Gee has bought or aquired. Yawn.

Thats the best comeback that you can think of Gee? You have no answer for what you did. Neither did Norman. You were awarding Kearney government contracts and you have the power to singlehandedly award the bids. You should have bought the house yourself.Have you ever even made any of the payments? There is just no excuse that anyone can make for this.
Will you take $50 bucks and a 6 pack of Budweiser to take a report or is that not enough?

I have to agree that there are MANY MORE bad & negative things happening to the deputies, detectives & front line supervisors of this office right now, to even begin dealing with this conspiracy. MORALE is as low as low can get, yet this administration still finds ways to make the morale hole deeper & deeper every day it seems. The office has been left in the hands of someone who doesn't have the slightest clue of how to talk to and deal with the employees of HCSO. By all the committees that have been created, the office has the look of a place that lets it's employees have direct input in the decision making processes, when in REALITY, this could not be any further from the truth. This one appointment alone by the Sheriff has caused more harm to morale & the office in such a short time, along with the Sheriff's refusal to correct the issue, that it is extremely hard to envision anything successful or morale lifting until it is addressed by the Sheriff head on.
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The office & particularly this person, have now created such a utterly confusing & dishonorable transfer & promotional process, that one cannot approach a single supervisor and obtain from them what one needs to do in order to be seen as eligible for upward movement in the office. We already know that the "Boston Marathon" fitness course is just one of many hurdles, along with schooling and a employee file clean enough for "monk" duty which have now been created and which automatically disqualify MANY outstanding and genuine hard working deputies from being considered. This has created a severely faulty system that in turn promotes or transfers deputies who look good on paper due to college and better times on the fitness course due to their young age and no work related injuries since they are relatively NEW at the office and now have better safety equipment, such as Taser's, where as the older deputies used to have to fight & wrestle HANDS-ON with the criminals, often sustaining injury. This topic should also address the fact that due to the many faults of the latest promotion, transfer & master programs, the office is sending inexperienced deputies forward, while the experienced, street proven and very often injured in line of duty deputies get left behind. The fact is that the repurcussions for these poor decisions are now starting to be felt, as these new waves of inexperienced deputies start filling detective slots, specialty teams and corporal positions to name just a few. The supervisors who have been in these areas for some time are now complaining about the lack of experienced deputies they are getting, who display very poor common sense skills and for whom they had absolutely no say in the picks. The supervisors that have brought this and other matters to the attention of this command staff, have quickly been labeled "old School" complainers and quickly sent back to the street or forced to retire! Just ask them and they will tell you. ask some of the ones that were booted out of CID for expressing their opinions on these type matters.

In the end, the fact that this is being allowed to continue to go on and the union getting forced out so that there would be nobody in a position to stand up to this type of tyrancy, should have been the writing on the wall for all to see. How far will this be allowed to go and just how permanently damaged will the reputation of HCSO become?

Tyrancy isn't a word. You meant tyranny.

Well, all the problems will now be solved as we have an FTD program (Field Training Detective) to train detectives to do their job. Is this because so many detectives have been forced to retire or been demoted back to patrol because of the fitness challenge? Or is it because the people being promoted to detective are so inexperienced that the office has to instruct them over a 6 month period to do their job. Are FTC (Field Training Corporal), FTS (Field Training Sargeant), or even more laughable, FTM (Field Training Major) next on the list. Pretty soon everyone will be in field training and nothing will get done.

Well, all the problems will now be solved as we have an FTD program (Field Training Detective) to train detectives to do their job. Is this because so many detectives have been forced to retire or been demoted back to patrol because of the fitness challenge? Or is it because the people being promoted to detective are so inexperienced that the office has to instruct them over a 6 month p.eriod to do their job. Are FTC (Field Training Corporal), FTS (Field Training Sargeant), or even more laughable, FTM (Field Training Major) next on the list. Pretty soon everyone will be in field training and nothing will get done.

Ha, I too saw the recent SOP changes about the creation of "FTO" Programs for Detectives, Street Crimes & Star Team and had to laugh. I can see maybe one for Detectives, but Street Crimes & Star Team? I guess the agency really is hurting to transfer experienced Deputies when they don't even know enough to function properly in Street Crimes or Star!! I actually know of some recent Deputies transferred to Street Crimes that had no idea what some of the common street drugs like Methamphetamine, Cocaine & Heroin looked like! Therefore they obviously never arrested anyone for it and yet they are transferred to SCU... :shock:

Stick to arresting bad guys, since you have no idea how government construction contracts are awarded. If you were to take 2 minutes to research that, you'd realize the government contracts require (3) or more qualified bidders. The bids are then opened publically and READ ALOUD. The municipality then confirms that the bidder has adherred to the bidding guidelines and then awards the project. All municipal projects are 100% open as they are public record. Now that you've been educated on the process, here's the next little tidbit. Gee is the Sheriff. Last I checked, he had ZERO power to award a contract. That is left to the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, or in some cases, the City of Tampa (Mayor, etc.). Pretty sure that Gee doesn't tell those guys and gals what to do.

Get your facts straight before you sling mud all over the place. And if you're not satisfied (since you owe them an apology), why don't you just go ahead and post your real name, home address, etc. I'm sure you're 100% above board and could stand some scrutiny? Right? After all, you're a public official too.

Thats funny. Gee accepts a half million dollar home from a big time developer and all of a sudden the taxpayers owe HIM an apology? I don't think so. There is such a thing as a no-bid contract. As the SP Times put it so eloquently, they know many politicians that won't even take a cup of coffee from people for fear that it might be perceived as a gift....
This transaction looks very bad by all accounts. How can the public trust Sheriff Gee?

WRONG WRONG WRONG The sheriff awards no bid contacts all the time the most recent was the changing of the guards at the court house........there was no bid process at all

I read the complete disclosure, the sheriff bought the house 5 years ago with his partner, they paid 550k and each split the down payment. Public records show that sheriff still owes 470k and payments are divided equally. It's all on his IRS return which he makes public and it's listed in an LLC because investment property as opposed to a second residence must be reported in the entity in which it is owned and not in the individuals names to avoid receiving a tax break as a second residence. His partner Kearney is an underground utility developer, there are no recorded performance bonds or certified bids involving the S.O.These are the facts as obtained through the records not from those who have personal grudges and mislead their brothers and sisters.