To Oh Two Too! / Memo to the 365 Club Faithful
John Gaccione
Date: 01/01/2022
Subject: The LL Gloom Report
From: The Memo Desk
One of our former KPPCSD directors in sovereign Kensington is just not happy. Recently the former director has claimed the current KPPCSD Board aided by the Fire Board are responsible for decimating the number of officers in our fabled police department. Simply put, the former director blames the two current District Boards for making Kensington less safe. Quelle Catastrophe!
But that’s not all. The former director goes on to say the Fire Board’s costly new Public Safety Building remodel plan may result in a hesitancy by prospective officers to join the police department since the plan doesn’t provide space for the police department. No need to examine the validity of this premise, the former director has declared “it is the result in fact.”
The solution the former director offers is to get a comprehensive Public Safety Plan. What is that, you might ask. It is a familiar scheme some folks are promoting under the banner of “Consolidation”, which means the KPPCSD would dissolve the Fire District and create one entity to run both the police and fire districts. There isn’t a precedent for such a maneuver but that has not stopped supporters from promoting like it is the Second Coming.
The former director was part of the “old regime” which ironically ignored dysfunctional and questionable behavior of some members of the KPD. On numerous occasions this former director made it a point to laud the performance of some of the more problem prone officers. The former director championed providing rich benefits to the KPD officers without acknowledging the long-term financial impact to the taxpayers. So now it is somewhat disingenuous the former director has used Public Safety as her underlying theme. Shameful, to say the least.
Looking forward to the New Year, wouldn’t it be refreshing to be able to discuss the many critical issues our community faces without the distortion of facts, the self-righteousness and the pettiness of the past? Wouldn’t it be productive to harness all the energy in the community to arrive at workable solutions to those issues?
Hope springs eternal, can I get a hallelujah?
“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.” (Adlai Stevenson) Note: May contain traces of satire. Best to proceed with tongue in cheek.