Not even a week on the job and Comrad Noble has his wife working as his secretary in City Hall. Who is doing the job as environmental educator? Just last month when Gallo cut Steve Noble's job out of the budget we were spoon fed bullshit by Noble and his supporters how we needed both positions and now we have no one doing it?! We opined that we thought Julie should have the job but that's not what's happening, she is filling in temperarily until he finds someone and will go back to her other job which she has abandoned, it's ridiculous, how is this allowed? I guess when you're the Mayor and your Uncle is the counsel president you can do whatever you want. We hear when City Clerk Carly Williams e-mails Steve Noble it is his wife not Steve that responds.. We have one family controlling city government an Uncle, a wife and a pussy whipped effeminate Mayor. This is the City I was born and raised in it's unreal.
Rebecca Martin has power and influence at City Hall now and her supporters are quick to point out her accomplishments that have benifited Kingston.. Please name one. Besides driving out 200 plus jobs out of our city and getting an award for it what has she done? She sung at City Hall for the inauguration and did an awful job. She was sending a message to us, her tone deaf performance represented out new tone deaf administration. An administration that has no clue as to what they are doing.
Steve Noble was sworn in as Mayor on Friday January 1, 2016, on Saturday, police Chief Tinti held an emergancy meeting of the Kingston Police Commision dragging the new kid Mayor by the ear to rescind three promotions made by Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo before he left. One would have made Sgt. Negron a Lieutenant and it would have promoted two other officers to Sargent. I don't know the other two officers but Detective Negron should be a Lietenent he's a superior officer and while he was working his entire career to getting Skells off the streets, Noble was shoveling shit at the zoo and blowing the city bull, he has the nerve to determine that these officers were not qualified?? Who's running the show by the way Chief Tinti or Comrad Noble? We have a feeling Comrad Noble has the same respect for police as Mayor DiBlasio does in NYC except he doesn't have half the brain as Billy D.
We hear Gallo cleaned out the office on his last day leaving Noble with nothing but furniture, no paperwork not even a paper clip was left in the Mayor's office. Corporation Counsel Dan Gartenstien had it out with Gallo cursing and screaming at him and giving Shayne a reality check on his final few days in office. Andrew Zweben got into it with His secretary Janet Highins as well, oh how the mighty have fallen as they say. Ellen DiFalco was seen riding around on her broom through the hallways at city hall giving each department head one final dirty look before she left.
That's all for now.. A new Omertà Report tonight!
Nice report.
ReplyDeleteIn the interest of accuracy the rescinded promotions were as follows. Sergeant Strand, who by the way has been a sergeant in the department longer than any Sergeant and well over twenty years on the force was promoted to Lieutenant. Why would he be qualified? This position has been vacant for over eight months leaving a large supervision void. Detective Negron was promoted in fact to fill the Sergeant spot that was created by Sergeant Strand becoming a Lieutenant. Here your have a highly capable Detective who would be a asset to the supervision staff. Sergeant Burkert, who by the way has just under twenty years on the department, has the second longest term as patrol Sergeant and is a practicing attorney. hmmm don't see any qualifications there. Burkert was promoted contingent based on Lieutenant Maisenhelder's retirement exit which took place yesterday. Congratulations Lt. Maisenhelder. Officer Farrell a seasoned patrolman was to fill the spot left by Sergeant Burkert becoming Lieutenant. All promotions taken off of valid Civil Service lists. So.. No new positions created just filling open positions, No unqualified people, in fact probably the most qualified available. Just four men with family's and careers being Jerked around at the pleasure of the people they have served. The better question would be why does The mayor want to block these promotions? As it stands now the department is down to one Lieutenant for three shifts. I don't think its any secret that Chief Tinti is pulling the Commission and mayoral strings But why one might ask??
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected regarding Negron and will correct story to reflect. I think it also should be pointed out that Commisioner Habeeb voted in favor kudos to him as well
DeleteWhy? Well maybe because Noble is in over his head and secondly we hear that one of the officers had an issue w Elisa Ball which is why Tinti didn't want the promotion to take effect.
DeleteBullshit!!
DeleteKudos to Habeeb??? Seriously?? Gallo make appointments that he had no authority to make and Habeeb is the only yes vote. That sounds like dumb and dumber.
DeleteYea ones a Dr. And one of the smartest men I've ever met, he also successfully ran three campaigns for Mayor and the other is a lawyer two dummies for sure. Let me ask you something, if he had no authority why did Tinti yank Noble by the ear and have him rescind it?!
DeleteYou get more with honey than you do with vining at as my Mom used to say!! Give Noble a chance.
DeleteOh yea, I got another saying for your quotations book, fuck up once you lose two teeth.. It's the Italian version
Deletedo you have a saying for spineless cowards that delete comments from their blog? I do, I call them a "Blaber"
Deleteyeah, Habeeb is a Dr... so is Grossman and Jordon is the smartest and most well respected business man in the city. They both voted NO!
DeleteThey voted no cuz Gallo lost had he won they would have gored yes
DeleteBeautifully done! I'm curious if Mrs.Noble is double dipping?
ReplyDeleteI don't know of she is double dipping but she is working out of title at the very least. When this blog mentions something we get results we hear that Comrad Noble has now filled the position an has hired a young lady, Lindsey Timbrouck to be secretary, we wish her the best.
DeleteAt least spell the word right. It is "comrade", comrade.
DeleteAny reasonable person would not make such major changes in the hierarchy of an organization during a transition, or more importantly in the 11th hour of their tenure. This whole thing reeks of politics and a booby trap by the Gallo administration to purposely make Mayor Nobel and Chief Tinti take some sort of action. I would bet that many of these promotions will take place. Would not be surprised to see that there is one in there that should not be taking place. We'll see. I say let's see what the Mayor does, then judge.
ReplyDeleteThere were no major changes. The promotions were made to keep the positions filled. The major changes are coming in the form of less supervision and personal and political revenge.
ReplyDeleteWith the promotions, be it filling empty positions or not, there will clearly be a change in hierarchy. The Mayor has to live with those decisions for 4 years. It was disrespectful to the office, unprofessional and inappropriate for Mayor Gallo to push it through at the last minute. No reasonable person could argue that which explains why Gallo did it. He is completely unreasonable.
DeletePlease you're talking a out promotions at Kpd it does not matter to the Mayor who a Sargent or a lieutenant is. With that logic it was disrespectful of the police commision to appoint Tinti a month before Gallo took office.. You can't have it both ways.
DeleteNo disrespect flatfoot but by your theory when ever a politician loses an elections he should stop doing his job. I'm sure when the disciplinary issues start popping up and things go sideways somehow that will be the cops fault or Gallo's fault. The citizens of Kingston have to deal with these decisions or lack of, for a lot longer than four years. PS. disrespectful to the office would have been to have taken his ball and gone home after the primary. Guess I'm just unreasonable. As has been stated before The more things change the more they stay the same.
DeleteNo one is suggesting that Gallo should have stop doing his job. However, making 11th hour appointments that he was advised not to make by the commission that has traditionally made those decisions is not doing his job, it is undermining the incoming Mayor. Gallo was being vengeful, spiteful and extremely unprofessional.
DeleteNo cursing or screaming. Gartenstein just said no and walked out.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds more like Dan. We are reporting what we hear.
ReplyDeleteChief Keller announced his retirement in January, a full 10 months before he left. We are talking about the Chief in that instance, not rank and file promotions en masse. Mayor Sottile and the Police Commission had ample time to interview and select the candidate they felt was best. That is NOT what happened here.
ReplyDeleteLt. Scanlon not only announced his leaving in April of 2015.but left leaving the position open. Since that time Tinti and three marinate commission members fought the mayor over filling the position. Why you say? A. Because the hacks they wanted were not on the current list.B. Because even if it was the best idea since putting ice cream in a cone, if it came from Gallo.. it aint gonna happen if Tinti Jordan and Grossman have anything to say about it. Then they called for a new test in August. Which coincidently still hasn't been posted in Kingston even though the rest of the county has had a certified list for weeks off the same test. HMMMMMMMM?? Rumor is it because the same people are in the top three and they are looking for a way to get around that and if they cant. Just get rid of the positions all together. yeah that's the ticket! They should be good for the department. Lets get rid of the supervisors and let the department run a muck.
DeletePost script. The positions are two Lieutenants and two sergeants to backfill. I would hardly call that "en Masse" and in the "last minutes" of the Sotile administration, they promoted a chief two patrol lieutenants a Detective lieutenant and several patrol officers.
Delete9:16:you cannot "run a muck." What you mean is "run amok." If you ran "a muck", it would be local politics. Thank you.
DeletePlease who you trying convince all these commision members were familiar w the officers, their backgrounds and qualifications. As for chief it was between two people Tinti and Schatzel, and it's apples and oranges the argument was not that they didn't have enough time to make a decision the argument presented by Tinti was that he wanted to allow the new Mayor to weigh in and vote which given the timing in which he was appointed is at best ironic. If I were Mayor I would have probably appointed Tinti over Schatzel had Tinti agreed to move to Kingston. I firmly belive all department heads specifically the Chief of police, fire and Dpw should be Kingston residents. Which will become the law of the land when I'm Mayor.
ReplyDeleteAbsofuckinglutley the department heads should be city residents. How do you serve from another town or county
DeleteIt's already the law of the land as you call it. Sottile in appointing Schupp went against the law of the land and the council approved it. Guess he was just taking the Highland road(?)
DeleteGo away Schupp...take the highland road to the Carolinas
DeleteThe line forms to the rear for next mayor. After ME, you might be last.
ReplyDelete;~)
ReplyDeleteSchupp leave now for the good of the City.
ReplyDeletePeople are forgetting Noble said he wanted diversity in the Police Dept to accomplish that he proposed bring in those out side the City of King, Neburgh or Pok if necessary that can pass the test. Look for new police exam to be given soon.
ReplyDeleteLike anyone here has an overwhelming conscience to conform to civil service law in the first place--in both letter and spirit. Yeah, right....goooood luck!! Never HAS been...and it's YET to be seen!!
Delete"ILLUMINATI, YOU'VE COME TO TAKE CONTROL
ReplyDeleteYOU CAN TAKE MY HEART BEAT
BUT YOU CAN'T BREAK MY SOUL