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Bubba
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Typical Erie County....lousy pay for important jobs. Would you wan't someone who makes minimum wage to answer you 911 call? Weindorf and his cronnies are a joke. Erie County needs real emergency management people, not some ex-district magistrate who doesn't have a clue, or an EMA Director who got the job becuase his mother knows Mark Devecchio.
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County Taxpayer
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Who in their right mind would take these jobs that require OVER 500 hours of training when the freakin Public safety director himself doesn't have this many hours in training?! And there are NO benefits. The "shift commander" is on call 24/7 with NO benefits. For a county job?! COME ON PEOPLE!!
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County Taxpayer
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I also like how it says that "county taxpayers money will not be used. Atleast not for the first 2 years." So after the 2 years are up, LOOK OUT!!!
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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If people only new the corruption that exists in the Public Safety Department! I got out because of the Federal investigation going on behind the scenes! It is only a matter of time before their schemes are exposed to the public! Not to mention the fact that the Director and Deputy Director are more than just friends......The name for this department should be called the Erie County Department of Public Stupidity! County Council is just as bad....What type of people approve a hiring plan and not know where the money is going to come from in two years? It will only be a matter of time before someone dies on their watch. I wonder if the Times News will cover that or will they cover it up as they always do for the county?
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County Taxpayer
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To the "Ex-Public Safety employee"...PLEASE tell us more!! We as taxpayers have the right to know what is going on with OUR money. The ONLY way to stop them is to expose them!! I am begging you!!!!
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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I cannot get into all of the details....but Homeland Security Funds were being funneled through the city of erie to the ecdops for "technology" purposes. There is also the question of the "Tax Fraud" with the 911 monies. And the ethical questions in regards to Roth-Marz Partnership getting the contact (Leone's company) and that Constitine Biebel got the building contract (related to cc member). Also, the top two posts were not qualified for those positions. PEMA has been trying to cover it up for the county, but someone at the federal level has more clout. Those at the ecdops are being watched very closely. county council is aware of all of this but has been assured that it will be swept under the rug and kept hush, hush. Stay tuned!
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MCR
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First of all let's get a grip here. It's a 911 "Emergency" center. 500 hrs. of training is only a little over 12 weeks. The equipment is state of the art high tech. Proper procedures need to be learned here and can't be taught in a couple of weeks.
Gee Wizz.. it takes 6 to 8 months to get training to be a welder.
As far as the pay goes. Yes, it could be better but it's a start. I read the article twice and saw no mention of "no benefits". As far as our tax dollars being used... so what else is new.
Every one says Erie is backward and behind the times. Then when we start to bring our status up. Everyone complains. Grant you we need more jobs in this area but do you really think major tech industry is going to come here if we don't at least try to upgrade. I know I'm going to get nailed for this post but felt I had to put my views in.
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County Taxpayer
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First, I have seen and read the job postings for all of the new public safety job hirings. There are NO benefits for these jobs. Second, Erie might be behind the times and they are tyring to fix it, but as usual, they go about it the WRONG way. They do what they want, when they want and use as much of our taxpayer dollars as they want and refuse to listen to ANY taxpayer that has questions or complaints, and requests answers. It's all a big secret that the politicians are coverering up. There is SO much contorversary over this new public safety building that the public doesn't know about because the Times News will only publish what the county wants it to. The Times news is no longer the "watch dog" for the people. They never have been. They are being the YES MEN as always.
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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MCR must work for the ECDOPS. Sounds like the typical rationale that comes out of their mouths.....
Has anything the county gotten involved in been FREE to the taxpayers? Run efficiently? created less bureaucy? Just what we need, bureaucy in public safety.
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MCR
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Nope, you're wrong. I'm retired and never worked in public safety,or for county, city or any other. Worked for private business. My post was just my opinion that's all. Ex-Public Safety employee wrote: MCR must work for the ECDOPS. Sounds like the typical rationale that comes out of their mouths.....
Has anything the county gotten involved in been FREE to the taxpayers? Run efficiently? created less bureaucy? Just what we need, bureaucy in public safety.
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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MCR, thank you for clarifing your status. Your opinion is appreciated, as this is one of the principals this country was founded on. However, you did not anwser the questions that were proposed. Certainly, you must have an opinion on those issues.
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Erie Taxpayer
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Well, obviously something was going on at that Dept.. Nick Sleptzoff did a good job for as long as I remember, and whenever clueless "Good Guy" Weindorf blows into town with Bloxdorf - who should have been gone when Schenker was out, Sleptzoff gets out of dodge.. They were probably telling him how to do his job - which he had done fine for like 20 years or so!
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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Sleptzoff left because of the investigation that was going down and he wouldn't lie for them. Then they tried to pin the misdeeds on poor Nick. Good thing he documented everything, other wise their plan would have worked. Bloxdorf is around because she has "Dirt" on every member of CC and the County Executive. That is why CC supports her.
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MCR
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I don't really have an answer to the rest of what you stated cause it's all true and can't argue those points. It's government. I don't like it but that's the way it is. If we aren't happy with the ones who are in office we should vote them out. Wouldn't that be a real wake up call for City and County governments? However, people forget and keep voting them back in. WHY? One thing I didn't say before though is, we have a scanner and listened to the mess that was going on when the 32 car pileup was on I-90 a few years ago. It was a mess. Responders were not coordinated, instructions were not clear. Supers were over lapping each other on the frequencies. It was a mess. Somehow these guys got the mess straightened out BETWEEN themselves. God Bless them. Even the tow truck drivers didn't know where to go. I think if they would have had 1 system to coordinate it would have been much easier, safer and faster for them and the victims. This is why I think it's a good idea. Hope this helps explain what I said. Ex-Public Safety employee wrote: MCR, thank you for clarifing your status. Your opinion is appreciated, as this is one of the principals this country was founded on. However, you did not anwser the questions that were proposed. Certainly, you must have an opinion on those issues.
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County Taxpayer
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Nick Sleptzoff didn't leave his job on his own. He started asking to many questions and was suddenly "replaced", along with some other excellant employees that had done a fine job for many, many years!
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Ex-Public Safety employee
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MCR, I agree with you that the "technology" the county has upgraded was long over due and the county should be applauded for spending the money. However, in a case such as the accident on 90, imagine if you will all first responders, fire fighters, ambulances, police officers being dispatched out of one centeralized center. We only need to read the report by James Witt in regards to the Valentines Day Disaster the eastern half of PA had when they had motorists stranded for two days! Yep, Everything worked much better didn't it?
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MCR
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Have not seen that report. Where can I read about it? Ex-Public Safety employee wrote: MCR, I agree with you that the "technology" the county has upgraded was long over due and the county should be applauded for spending the money. However, in a case such as the accident on 90, imagine if you will all first responders, fire fighters, ambulances, police officers being dispatched out of one centeralized center. We only need to read the report by James Witt in regards to the Valentines Day Disaster the eastern half of PA had when they had motorists stranded for two days! Yep, Everything worked much better didn't it?
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County Taxpayer
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No matter what radios, frequencies or major disaster plans you have in place, NOTHING is going to work correctly in the event of a huge disaster. Every huge disaster that has occured all over the US, they say "things could have been worked out better, and this is what we are going to do to change it for next time so this doesn't happen again." Well it will happen again, and things will still be a cluster. It's human nature. Look at 9-11, Hurricane Katrina,the VA Tech shooting. Nothing is ever going to be 100% fail proof. No matter how much training you have,or how prepared you think you are, you cannot change how people react to major incidents no matter where and what they are. Every incident is different.
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Erie Taxpayer
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Ex-Public Safety employee wrote: Sleptzoff left because of the investigation that was going down and he wouldn't lie for them. Then they tried to pin the misdeeds on poor Nick. Good thing he documented everything, other wise their plan would have worked. Bloxdorf is around because she has "Dirt" on every member of CC and the County Executive. That is why CC supports her. Typical...Why can't anyone get any "Dirt" on her? She's completely unqualified for her position, and not exactly a nice person to deal with to begin with!!
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MCR
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I really gotta agree on this one. It'll just have to be trial and error till we get it right. If it can be done. County Taxpayer wrote: No matter what radios, frequencies or major disaster plans you have in place, NOTHING is going to work correctly in the event of a huge disaster. Every huge disaster that has occured all over the US, they say "things could have been worked out better, and this is what we are going to do to change it for next time so this doesn't happen again." Well it will happen again, and things will still be a cluster. It's human nature. Look at 9-11, Hurricane Katrina,the VA Tech shooting. Nothing is ever going to be 100% fail proof. No matter how much training you have,or how prepared you think you are, you cannot change how people react to major incidents no matter where and what they are. Every incident is different.
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