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Take wrong ticket? Fired. Kill someone while boating drunk? Reinstated.

I just about fell out of my chair this morning when I read that Troy Parker has been put back on the police force by an arbitrator, albeit on unpaid administrative leave. Parker, you’ll recall, was fired for driving a boat while intoxicated, crashing the boat, and killing Damon Teverbaugh.

So, let me [...]

August 10th, 2007 | Category: City of Peoria, Peoria Police | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

City evidently looking to outsource code enforcement

The City of Peoria has been looking for ways to save money, and one of those ways is to consider outsourcing certain functions currently done in-house. When City Manager Randy Oliver looked at outsourcing the mechanics that work on the city’s fleet of vehicles, he met with a tremendous amount of push-back. Now [...]

August 10th, 2007 | Category: City of Peoria | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)