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| Documents linked within this blog post pertaining to a recent legal settlement with a former employee illustrate how contentious some personnel issues can become when board policy is not followed with fidelity--and the expensive outcomes. |
"Alison,
I received three transcripts related to our settlement with Matt Selover late this afternoon from Kimberly Chappel.
If these are a public record and do not require redaction, I intend to release them on my blog first thing tomorrow morning.
Please advise if there are any legal or ethical prohibitions on me making these documents public unredacted, in the same form as I have just received them and in the same form the CoC has apparently received them.
Please advise soonest.
Thanks,
Escambia Board of County Commissioners"
FROM Alison Rogers:
"Jeff, pursuant to state statute, I am of the opinion
that all of the transcripts are public record and we are obligated to make all
of the transcripts available."
Some of what we do in government is not pleasant-including
contentious shade meetings to deal with pending litigation. This is why there is a term related to the
work of governing--"making sausage."
Making sausage is not pretty, it is downright nasty; stuff goes in, and sausage comes out. Most like sausage but not the process.
Read BCC Shade Session 10-1-2020
Interesting to see Janice Gilley blame me for a sham investigation that was completed 5-weeks after I had separated employment from the BoCC. For the record, I directed Ed Spainhower to initiate an investigation in Matt Selover's accusations per BoCC policy. That was the extent of my involvement in this matter.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, when I separated from the BoCC, all employee relations investigations without exception were reviewed with the County Attorney's office priority to findings and outcomes being determined.
If this is really Mr. Kleinart (you might have the same glitchy stuff I do when trying to enter your name), then I feel your pain Ms. Gilley's unfortunate tendency to throw people under the bus, in ways that should have been overtly obvious, if only people actually paid attention to facts and timelines (which she recognized full well doesn't happen).
ReplyDeleteYour wording is unfortunate, however, because it makes it sound as if Mr. Spainhower's investigation was sham, when it wasn't. He came to the proper conclusions. So perhaps you were referring to Janice Gilley and Jana Still's clumsy attempts to render it "sham."
If this really is Eric Kleinart, previous HR Director of Escambia County, however, I don't understand why you didn't speak up before this to weigh in on the side of truth? Because you were, by your own statement here, aware that Mr. Spainhower's opinion would have been vetted through the County Attorney's office and gotten the seal of approval. Why didn't you say anything, in the interest of ethics and truth?
You were one of over a dozen former or then-present higher-ups at the County who could have brought the nonsense to a screeching halt with an affidavit. Why didn't you? One in an unfortunately large category of too many people in positions of authority not willing to put their own neck on the line to do the right thing, is my guess.