A description of Corker as Mayor from IBPO Local President

[Flirtus]

(From nooga.com)

Monday, October 2, 2006 ---- The following statement was released today by Sgt. Julia A. Dean, President, IBPO Local 673:

I would like to do a rebuttal in regards to the article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press on Friday, September 29 titled “Police Officer, ex-fire chief defend Corker on pay raises”. I apparently only have one thing in agreement with these gentlemen’s statements; I too worked in the Chattanooga Police Dept during Bob Corker mayoral administration. That’s where the agreement ends! It was a long four years for city employees under his administration.

The first problem that hit us was the power struggle between former Mayor Corker and former Police Chief Dotson. It was no secret to the citizens of Chattanooga that they weren’t best friends; it was constantly in the newspaper, and more so felt at 3300 Amnicola Hwy. In the mayoral administration of former Mayor John Kinsey the good working relationship between the chief and his boss was evident. The Police Department ran smooth and was given the right to run itself and was not micro managed as it was with Corker. The argument about whether former Mayor Corker gave us “raises” or froze our pay is easily disputed with statistics that are easily accessible and are public information. First and foremost the word “raise” in Webster’s dictionary means “ an increase in wages or salary,” it doesn’t mean to give employees in smaller increments what was promised them by contract what was to be their step pay plan increments as they advanced in years of service.

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If you were to look at a sergeants pay from 2006 it would be at the pay plan increments of what a sergeant in 2000 is supposed to make. Did former Mayor Corker give any “raise”? No, not according to Webster, which to paraphrase “is above and beyond what an employee salary is.” Did former Mayor Corker give us our expected salary increments as devised in the pay plan we were under when we applied? No!
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As president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, Local 673 and its 235 members, I feel we need to give the public the facts about former Mayor Corkers’ administration. The IBPO, Local 673 has not decided to endorse either candidate at this time and it will be up to its membership to do so, but to publicly minimize statistics that are readily available to support one candidate or another is a tad bit questionable.

Signed: Sgt. Julia A. Dean
President, IBPO Local 673
Employed for 18 years, Chattanooga Police Department

[tnlefty]

1. And don't forget Corker's underfunding of the 9-1-1 call center.

Does Corker think that people live in a vacuum? The second in command at the police dept. is a band parent that I talk to regularly....