Mystery & Secrecy
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/24/2012
Jerry Taylor
Retired Seattle Police and President of the RSPOA.
Jerry founded LEOFF1.Net in 2000 and is the editor of the site.
Back on the 9th we had a meeting at the WACOPS office in Olympia. All the usual suspects were there. The point of that was to tell us that a draft merger bill was in existance and the bill would likely be introduced that day or very soon. The bill was introduced on the 12th. It was written by the LEOFF 2 Board Director, Steve Nelson, and is every bit as bad as the first merger bill. Like the previous bill it was developed in secret and without input from LEOFF 1.
There can be no mistaking the fact that not only did the bill writer know who the LEOFF 1 representatives are and that he knew our general and specific objections to the bill. He made but a minor attempt to address LEOFF 1 concerns by including wording "guaranteeing" 41.26.150 disability benefits. But, he sat the guarantee date back to 2003 and missed 41.26.030 benefits. Worse yet he did nothing to guarantee the disability boards themselves.
But wait! There is more!
He did absolutely nothing to address the issue of governance and LEOFF 1 representation. He did this with a clear knowledge that the current system of governance for LEOFF 2 is totally unacceptable to us.
Then came some sneaky stuff. He stuffed the bill with wording that would effecively isolate the LEOFF board from any legislative oversite for rates, assumptions, spending or much of anything else.
Wow! What a great deal for LEOFF 2 and what a bad deal for everyone else.
It was all done in secret. The only difference is we got three days' notice instead of one.
There can be no mistaking the fact that not only did the bill writer know who the LEOFF 1 representatives are and that he knew our general and specific objections to the bill. He made but a minor attempt to address LEOFF 1 concerns by including wording "guaranteeing" 41.26.150 disability benefits. But, he sat the guarantee date back to 2003 and missed 41.26.030 benefits. Worse yet he did nothing to guarantee the disability boards themselves.
But wait! There is more!
He did absolutely nothing to address the issue of governance and LEOFF 1 representation. He did this with a clear knowledge that the current system of governance for LEOFF 2 is totally unacceptable to us.
Then came some sneaky stuff. He stuffed the bill with wording that would effecively isolate the LEOFF board from any legislative oversite for rates, assumptions, spending or much of anything else.
Wow! What a great deal for LEOFF 2 and what a bad deal for everyone else.
It was all done in secret. The only difference is we got three days' notice instead of one.
