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You still do not understand the issue. SIDE DEALS ARE ILLEGAL. Doesn't matter what side of the deal the city is on , all are illegal. That is the opinion of the states most knowledgeable lawyer, the Supreme Court, and the city charter. If you have a problem with that, than I would invite you to contact the people responsible for the illegal side agreements, mainly Peter Ruggiero. You can contact him at peter@rubroc.com

You can also contact Ernie Zmyslinski, former finance director for Scott Avedisian at ezmyslinski@westwarwickri.org

and question him as to how this could have happened. You may want to ask Ernie how he was able to author a false fiscal note on the impact of the line item of unused sick time. You can ask Avedisian how they were able to get away with not itemizing the line item of firefighter sick time which is required by basic accounting practices and by the city ordinances. And you may attempt to answer this question. How is it possible that a firefighter can call out sick on a certain day, get paid his regular salary, and also get paid 1.25 days for not calling out sick, and then having someone cover for them at time and a half. This is the scheme that drives the overtime. Each time this happens cost the taxpayer 3.75 days pay. And you think that you have some explanation that the taxpayer will find acceptable? I'm all ears. Address the issue at hand. Dont try to justify poor behavior by citing examples of worse behavior.

So for months you disparage me, call me everything in the book, accuse me of all kinds of crap and offer no documents, you cannot stick to the point, so instead of addressing the message and solving the problem you attack the messenger. That's the difference between us. Trained as a pilot, professional underwater instructor, commercial diver, and USCG licensed captain, I am highly trained in problem solving. People like me identify problems, select the options for solving the problem, then act swiftly. Your council and administration was notified about this 2 1/2 years ago. Nothing was done. If it wasn't for me, the hemorrhaging would still be happening. By the way, at the time, my option for solving the problem was to quietly make it go away so that this big stink didn't happen. They chose to ignore it and jerk me around. bad idea and they all should have known better.

I'll expect your apology and a thank you for my dedication to ensuring my community's fiscal soundness.

PUTZ