The Oro Valley Town Council voted 4-3 to retain the current reporting relationship of the Chief of Police. Chief Sharp does and will continue to report to council and not to the town manager, as is the practice in most communities.The vote was split along the same 4-3 lines as many other council votes:
For: Hiremath, Hornat, Snider and Waters.
Against: Burns, Garner and Zinkin
Those voting for no change supported their position using an: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Those voting for the change did so on the basis that the council in not now doing its legally mandated job of management oversight of the department. In essence, by reporting to 7 people, the Department reports to no one. Therefore, there is no effective oversight of its operations.
We will report more in depth on this Monday.
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Dear Richard Furash, MBA:
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The Oro Valley Town Council voted 4-3 to retain Chief Sharp's current reporting relationship. Whereas in most other communities the Chief of Police reports to the town manager, Chief Sharp will continue to report to the council.
The council vote resembled the 4-3 pattern that has become all too common in Oro Valley politics, with councilmembers Burns, Garner, and Zinkin dissenting from the lockstep alliance of Hiremath, Hornat, Snider, and Waters.
The council majority used the familiar argument that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Meanwhile, the maverick minority(TM) of Burns, Garner, and Zinkin fiercely argued that a change was necessary, as the current council has failed to provide the management oversight to which it is legally mandated. According to these wise members, the police department is able to escape accountability by simultaneously reporting to seven people. The multiple reports result in Chief Sharp effectively reporting to nobody and, thus, oversight of his department's operations is nearly absent.
We will report in more depth on Monday.
I'd love for one of you (VC, NW?) to take it from here and spin out another revision. Maybe we can make this coherent over the weekend. My hunch, though, is that we will fail, as trying to make that argument coherent is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig.
With love,
OVDad, Ph.D.
Here is my rewrite:
Oro Valley uses the all money collected by the utility tax to pay for police take home vehicles.
More on Monday.
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