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Can someone tell me why there is a Cape Verdean flag on the desks?
2:08:24 American, State, City, Cape Verdean
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
2/1/1938-5/4/2019
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Capt wrote: Thanks Dof2. I never paid that much attention to it until now....Carpenter is a very good speaker. He spoke without using Ah, ah, ah like the others. Very impressive.
Can someone tell me why there is a Cape Verdean flag on the desks?
2:08:24 American, State, City, Cape Verdean
Carpenter was on the radio for how many years?
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Light Travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. <br />We were born with two ears and only one mouth ... Think about it!
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Capt wrote: ....Can someone tell me why there is a Cape Verdean flag on the desks? 2:08:24 American, State, City, Cape Verdean
i suppose same reason why the city council has a band called 'the council chords' and goes around singing songs of the emerald isle
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Quick about 48 minutes. Couple small cuts. Was passed favorably out of Finance to full CC vote on Monday. 2 CC voted against the budget, Barnes and Rodriguez. Not sure of their rationale.
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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"The Brockton City Council voted 6-5 to cut $250,000 from the police overtime account in the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget, while also removing the funding allotted for a new community outreach position at the Brockton Police Department. Councilor-at-large Winthrop Farwell made both motions, stating that the Brockton Police Department should return to the City Council in the future if it needs a supplemental appropriation for overtime work. The reduction brought the proposed overtime account from about $1.02 million to $777,552. “That way, we find out what it’s for, we make sure it’s justified, and I think that’s what we as councilors do when we work with the mayor to be stewards of finances for the city, and to protect the taxpayers’ interest,” Farwell said. “It’s not because I don’t think the police department may need the money.”
m.enterprisenews.com/news/20160610/overt...ockton-police-budget
"The council also voted to nix $90,000 in funding allotted in the budget, submitted by Mayor Bill Carpenter, to establish a new community outreach position at the Brockton Police Department. Farwell argued that it was too much money, especially when Brockton needs more officers on the street to do preventative patrols. The majority of his fellow councilors agreed. The president of the Brockton police union, Bill Healy, is opposed to the position as well, Farwell said. But the Brockton City Council can only cut the funding, not the position. And according to the Brockton Personnel Department, the job was already advertised on the city’s website, and the deadline for applications for the police community outreach position was Monday, the first day of this year's city council budget hearings. Now the city is doing interviews. The job description was created last month, based on a collective bargaining agreement between the city government led by Carpenter and the Department Administrators Union, SEIU 888."
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dadof2 wrote: The Brockton City Council voted 6-5 to cut $250,000 from the police overtime account in the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget, while also removing the funding allotted for a new community outreach position at the Brockton Police Department.
Looks like this could add 4 new sworn police officers to the force.
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Carpenter put $90,000 in the budget for a Community Outreach Coordinator. This is not a PO. He posted, advertised and rumor has it hired the individual. All prior to the Budget. CC cut it with the rationale we need PO in the street. They can only cut the line item, so Carpenter can take $90,000 from somewhere else in the BPD budget again impacting negatively much needed officers in the street. All the while shutting down a fire station for the summer due to budget cuts. The job posting is posted on Farwell's page.
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m.enterprisenews.com/news/20160613/mayor...with-police-overtime
"After passing the budget on Monday night, Councilor-at-large Winthrop Farwell spoke up during the public meeting about a call he received by a local businessman on behalf of the mayor, stating that neighborhood patrols and other services would be eliminated unless the council reversed its decision. “If that happens, as a result of the action we took tonight, I find that reprehensible,” Farwell said. “Come July 1, if all of a sudden those actions take place, I hope the council will bond together and do everything it can to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
Reached by phone after Monday night’s budget hearing, the Brockton mayor blasted members of the City Council who didn’t vote in favor of his original police overtime funding allotment, which Carpenter said he already cut by $100,000 as a “statement of good faith” by the administration. Carpenter said that the slashing of the police overtime fund comes when the city needs it most to meet minimum staffing guidelines, during the summer when crime often heats up and when many officers use their time off. Carpenter said the immediate effect of the overtime funding cut will be the removal of walking patrols in the Montello, Campello and downtown business districts. Carpenter said he, Brockton Police Chief John Crowley and the city’s chief financial officer, John Condon, will meet soon to figure out how to deal with the funding reduction."
Perhaps Carpenter should rethink a $90k Community Outreach Coordinator. That monies would pay a lot of OT Costs.
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I've always liked John Cowley, but where in hell is he? Never see or hear of him. It's like having a ghost for a chief.
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
2/1/1938-5/4/2019
Rest in peace
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Mayor Bill Carpenter statement:,
"Recently, I joined Councilor Rodrigues and the Cape Verdean Association in support of their Peace Walk. Violent crime is a community problem, we need the support of the community to keep our neighborhoods safe. We will soon be introducing a Community Outreach Director for the Brockton PD, to help us build trust and improve communication between the Police Dept and Brockton residents." — at Capeverdean Association.
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.FREE NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK
BROCKTON: Budget Passes, City Council At Odds with Mayor Over Police OT
By Emily J. Reynolds
"After the vote, Farwell -- a former Brockton police officer and Brockton mayor -- announced that he had gotten a call from a “businessman” over the weekend. The man said that he had been contacted by the mayor and been asked to make calls to change the vote on the police budget OT cuts otherwise the bicycle patrols, motorcycle patrols, and foot patrols to the area would be cut.
In an interview after the meeting, Mayor Bill Carpenter called the OT budget cut “arbitrary” and said it is the council who is “playing politics.” He said the budget he originally presented already included a $100,000 reduction in police OT “as a sign of good faith…we were showing we were going to make every effort possible to control cost of OT.” Carpenter said he did tell some people over the weekend that the walking beats would have to be canceled in the Montello, Campello, and downtown business districts if the OT cuts were finalized because: “Those walking beats are paid for 100 percent by overtime per agreement of the union. We can’t take guys off the regular patrols to walk.” Carpenter explained the two biggest draws on overtime are maintaining the minimum staffing -- which is between six and 10 patrol officers depending on the shift -- and the detective division. If a scheduled officer calls out sick or an officer takes a vacation or personal day, that shift is filled by an officer on overtime in order to maintain minimum staffing. And detectives are routinely afforded overtime to work on investigations -- some of which last several months."
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