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• 1 jtt // Aug 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

  Wonder what NY’s rules are with respect to open records? I’d bet he isn’t on the actual payroll but maybe has a consulting contract?

• 2 Sunny_Disinfect // Aug 15, 2011 at 12:55 pm

  No need to check on open records laws. His picture is on the FDNY website:
  http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/publications/a_c_mag_page7a.shtml

• 3 WTFfischy // Aug 15, 2011 at 1:37 pm

  Is it just me or is Fischy’s lack of leadership spreading like a nasty virus? LMAS now EMS. I hope many ask Fischy about LMAS and EMS and other crap like why his Chief Community officer isn’t really building community? We can’t let Fischy go Conway (silent) on accountability

• 4 jake // Aug 15, 2011 at 1:39 pm

  Really? You folks think you’re going to get answers?

  I’d say very few people have the kind of access I have and even *I* can’t get answers. That’s not an egotistical thing but a reality.

• 5 jtt // Aug 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm

  Mmmmnnn, I believe Metro Louisville has a rule that if you have a second job, you have to tell your supervisor about it? I guess in his case that would be, who, Bill Summers? That would be an interesting OR request. And his position would generally require 24/7 access (within reason) – and the old rule used to be, if you were going out of state any reasonable distance, you had to take vac time if you were a “manager.”

• 6 jake // Aug 15, 2011 at 3:53 pm

  The point isn’t that he may or may not have other employment – it’s that he is responsible for the shit going down at EMS and needs to be held accountable.

  It shouldn’t take a scandal to get Greg Fischer to just fucking do something for a change like it has EVERY OTHER TIME.

• 7 jtt // Aug 15, 2011 at 4:09 pm

  But if his secondary employment is impacting his ability to do his primary employment, that’s a problem. Realistically, though, I don’t want a doctor to “manage” anything – I remember the issues when he first arrived with respect to his ability to have privileges at University Hospital, I’d have to go back and refresh my memory but I think part of the initial contract was that he must be able to get privileges, and he couldn’t? But they kept him on anyway? You need a good manager and leader – he is neither – and medical doctors experienced in EMS as consultants – not medical doctors running EMS.

• 8 Earl // Aug 15, 2011 at 5:09 pm

  I sort of give Fischer a pass on waiting until a scandal pops up to make a change. It’s probably the only way he can prioritize, since just about everybody Abramson appointed is waiting in line with a scandal of their own.

  Fischer is probably wondering WTF with all the incompetency in Metro Government and all the agencies it oversees. My biggest issue with him (Fischer) right now is that he is only perpetuating the graft and/or incompetency by keeping Summers and all the other department heads in place. I hope he only did it to pace himself.

  I can only guess that every time one of the old guard leaves, it will open up that area to another audit and scandal. Just look at how the dominoes fell when Driscoll was shown the door.

• 9 Ed // Aug 15, 2011 at 5:49 pm

  Oh wow, another Scandal, I am shocked!!! WHo would have thought such a thing from “Mr Transparency”
  Actually, if you think about it, Metro Government is transparent, all the scandals are quite well known, and nobody is doing anything about it. I cannot think of a department that is being run with a even a modicum of competence, or integrity. Some of them even got raises the last few months to reward their lack of competence.
  Why does Greg Fisher allow this to go on??
  Because:
  Birds of a feather flock together.
  Subordinates take their cue from those above them,
  All problems flow from the top,
  Management is always the root of the problems.
  The collective population of this city is merely reaping what it has sown by not demanding better leadership, and voting for less than stellar candidates based on party affiliation, rather than the reality of who the person is, and the obvious signs of what kind of leader they will be.
  We get the leadership we deserve.

• 10 slug // Aug 15, 2011 at 6:45 pm

  you people just don’t get it. slug has told you before: this is just another one of McCheese’s fustercluck hirings. his office made these type of “national searches” and they always were terrible. there was no one in HR that was asked or if they were asked had the skills to assist. Richmond is a sham. it’s a wonder it took this long for him and his assistant (i think a young, no-nothing attorney, that jerry appointed, plus the cast-off from driskell’s office to screw everything up. (and let’s not even get into the kazillion dollars of overtime that this department consumes!)

• 11 Earl // Aug 15, 2011 at 8:40 pm

  Sorry…I misspelled her name again. It is Jane “Doesn’t Conform to Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures” Driskell, not Driscoll.

• 12 Jtt // Aug 16, 2011 at 3:34 pm

  Never could figure out what the “young no-nothing attorney” knew that made her qualified for HR – she never did that kind of work before that I know of. (Yes, I know who she is.) I guess she didn’t want to go the County Attorney’s office after merger with the rest of the city attorneys – probably because she’d been a PD before.

• 13 Earl // Aug 17, 2011 at 12:55 pm

  All attorneys working for Metro Government should be either employees of the County Attorney’s office, or contracted and approved by the County Attorney.

  That would simultaneously make Metro Government more efficient and streamlined, as well as cut off Jerry’s biggest perk he bestowed upon his friends.
  I hope Fischer and O’Connell are preparing to make this happen now.

• 14 LMEMSsucks // Aug 17, 2011 at 3:43 pm

  Who are you talking about from Janes office?

• 15 LMEMSsucks // Aug 19, 2011 at 9:53 am

  I hear he is also working at another hospital out of state so that takes him away from his duties at LMEMS even more.
  How can Dr Richmond treat his Major that was fired with such animosity, especially when Richmond has apparently written prescriptions for pain medications for EMS employees.
  Was the Major in question ever trained for his position? NO!
  This Major was a street supervisor that was TDY for over 2 years in that position because no one else wanted it. And that is his thank you.
  Did he violate any policies? There is no policy to violate, so NO!
  Did he screw up by taking some meds that were not his? Absolutely, and he should be disciplined but not lose everything because he is overworked and treated like shit by his bosses.
  If he loses his license, then Colonel Rodgers should lose his and Dr Richmond should be investigated by by the medical board. Pull some scripts, there must be some sort of record of that.
  EMS should be given back to EMS people and the Dr and Lawyer should find another job. Maybe they should go run LMPD or maybe LFD. Same damn thing isn’t it? Lets see how far that goes. Police deal with legel issues so maybe a lawyer should be running it.
  LMEMSsucks soooo bad! When is someone going to put a stop to it???

• 16 Cavemouse // Aug 20, 2011 at 5:12 pm

  PLEASE support the folks that are still trying to do their jobs there! The administration is the problem: supervision by daily edict, favoritism, burnishing their own images, total lack of common sense, running the experienced staff off, refusal to consider any idea that is not theirs, taking credit for others accomplishments, just to name a few. Meanwhile the people doing the REAL work are being slammed on a daily basis, working very long hours and becoming very tired of the drama. The mayor knows this, he has been told by both active and retired employees, but he does NOTHING!!

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