SELMA'S NEXT POLICE CHIEF: MS. GLENDA DEESE
1-21-08
Our opinion is that Ms. Glenda Deese will be named by Mayor Perkins as Selma's next Police Chief. It has been evident since the City paid $25,000 to a consulting firm to find candidates for Police Chief that PERKINS HAD NO INTENTION OF NAMING ANYONE THE FIRM SELECTED. He flatly refused to say he would accept one of the nominees when asked, at a Council Meeting, by Dr. Cecil Williamson.
Sometimes between Martin's resignation and today, Perkins decided that he would name Ms. Deese as Police Chief. His problem was how to do it because the $48,000 Police Department Evaluation clearly indicated that the next Chief should come from outside Selma (Ms. Deese lives here and is a local resident).
Perkins' plan has now become clear to us. The consulting firm selected 3 finalists for Chief. These are coming to Selma or perhaps one of them is rumored to live here. At Perkins request, the Council TOOK $10,000 from the Police Healthcare Fund to pay for these visits. We predict that NONE of the three candidates will be acceptable to Perkins or that they will decide they do not want the job.
This will open the way for Perkins to name Ms. Deese as Police Chief, which is what he has wanted to do for months. His other problem was HOW to get Ms. Deese in a position to be named Chief. He solved that problem by having the City Council vote to hire Ms. Deese as a $50.00 an hour consultant from January 22-March 14. The $12,500 for this RIP-OFF also came from the Police Budget.
The Budget contains a position for a NON-EXISTANT ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF. As in former years, Perkins has put thousands of dollars in the Police Department for positions WHICH ARE NEVER FILLED. This allows him to take the money and spend it on pet projects such as Ms. Deese.
Attached is the Resolution Perkins presented and the Council approved to hire Ms. Deese. After you read, see if you can tell us WHAT SHE IS SUPPOSE TO DO.
Once the 3 candidates are rejected by Perkins and/or his Rump Advisory Commitee, there will be noone left to take Martin's place..except Ms. Deese. Suddenly Martin will have to leave - 8 months after his resignation. And who will be left to be appointed Chief? MS. DEESE, WHO IS ALREADY ON BOARD.
We would like to make clear a couple of things: (1) We do not know Ms. Deese. From all accounts, she is a quality person with an excellent record with the State Troopers. We do know she would be a much better Chief than Jimmy Martin, whose tenure as Chief has practically ruined the Police Department. Coming from a matriarchal society, Perkins has demonstrated time and time again that he is much more comfortable with women in charge than men. One only has to look at his City Hall Department Heads to see this. If he wants Ms. Deese as Chief, we urge him to be a LEADER and name her today...stop wasting the taxpayers money with this charade process. (2) Regarding these 2 proposals Perkins presented to the City Council; to take $10,000 from the Police Healthcare Fund and to take $12,500 from a non-existent assistant Police Chief's salary, THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED BOTH OF THESE REQUESTS BY A VOTE OF 7-2 (only Williamson and Cain voted against both of these).
We are not surprised that the 4 Perkins puppets (Crenshaw, Leashore, Randolph, and Venter) voted for these 2 expenditures. They would vote to buy the Brooklyn Bridge or to build a bridge to nowhere if Perkins suggested it. However, we are disappointed that Evans, Allen and Martin also voted for these 2 expenditures. We consider them our friends and continue to support them,but we disagree with them on these votes and suggest they be asked by constituents why they voted for these expenditures.
READ THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION AND NOTE THE RIDICULOUS JUSTIFICATION FOR PAYING MS. DEESE $12,500 FOR A FEW WEEKS WORK.
