Nothing like blatant extortion by the police chief to create good faith in the public servants at Haines Borough. Is extortion what they call best practices now? Did you know when Heath Scott came to Haines last year he went into a meeting with manager Bill Seward and came out with the top of the pay scale, $95,000 a year, plus health and retirement. After he was here a few weeks, the borough bought him a plane ticket to Washington, D.C. and gave him time off to get his family. Then when he got here he lived with Bill Seward, his supervisor, which you aren’t supposed to do. Then his wife gave $1,000 to Seward to help Seward sue the borough. At any other company in the world, if the wife of an employee did that, that employee would be persona non grata. At the police chief candidates meet and greet, his talk was all about what the community wants and community this and that. Now it’s, “This is what I want and I will take away what the community wants until I get it.” He wants more police because it’s busy during the bike race and beer festival. Two nights a year. By their own argument, the police have it pretty good here. I could be a police consultant and take care of the festivals. Heath could stay home and watch “Cops.” Anyway, instead of meet and greets, could we have lie detector tests?
Joe Parnell