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Washington DC Government has rubbed off on our City it seems....They continue to let those in power NOT be held accountable for their actions and punish those honest hard workers trying to do their jobs. The problem is, when they do their job honestly that gets in the way of those dishonest "Higher Ups".   

1. It is business as usual. Looks like our $10,000 was spent just about as efficiently as a lot of our Federal Government money is being spent recently... We should have learned from our mistakes in the past, not to trust those in power. Though we try to give our leaders the benefit of the doubt and consider them to be honest in what they promise, unfortunately our government and City leaders have all been transformed into politicians. They SAY WHAT THEY THINK WE (THE PEOPLE) WANT TO HEAR, NOT WHAT THE TRUTH IS. They satisfy us long enough to go about their behind the scenes antics as quickly as possible before we realize we have been "Had Again"!  

How long are we going to allow this to continue? That remains to be seen. Our commissioners certainly did not give us the un-biased investigation we were promised, and certainly did not protect the employees who could have given them the information they needed to clear things up once and for all. An investigator being ushered around by those being investigated as their buddy. And then they expect an employee under that supervisor to stand up and risk their job without protection of retaliation? There are too many incidents in the past that employees know better than that. They know the consequences.

No, it is business as usual and are we to believe that a little slap on the wrist and probation is going to change the actions or core principles of those in question? As long as they are allowed to continue their misconduct without being stopped, they will continue. The opportunity to prove to the people that the right thing would be done, was lost! The commissioners are more interested in preventing conflict or debate, and quieting anyone who might speak badly of their performance, than they are about getting to the truth and providing proper and successful disciplinary actions to STOP the problem from recurring.

No, all they have accomplished is to provide more reason for employees to keep quiet about abuse and misconduct of their superiors, and more fuel to encourage the actual leaders in question to continue their retaliation of those only trying to speak the truth. They now have more arrogance than ever! It's time we showed them they can't get by with these things forever! Make the right choices when you vote! Pay attention! Get the facts! We all need to wake up and we need to wake up our elected officials! They need to do what is right and provide justice so the people feel represented by honest and responsible adults.

The commissioners need to take care of the problem instead of treating it as a petty game they are playing. These people are on probation so apparently they did find out who was responsible for the problems. Do they think no one will notice that they don't take this seriously with the punishment they decided on? They just decided NOT to take action and correct the problems once and for all. We all heard those responsible on TV and in the newspapers admit what they did. Is that just to be forgotten? Why not give them a just punishment and find someone who can perform their jobs professionally and honestly?

Too bad the risks seemed too high for so many employees to provide the evidence to the investigator and tell them the WHOLE truth regardless of the consequences. If enough of the people stick together, they CAN win against the FEW in charge. It will never get better until someone stands up and does something about it! Never!!  Too bad the commissioners could not have found a way to provide this protection to those employees and guarantee to each person providing information, that any mistreatment would be immediately and harshly disciplined. They could not convincingly provide this guarantee though because history shows it NOT to be true in THIS CITY, and they weren't willing to do what was required to change that!

Don't think this is over and those being punished with probation will learn anything from this other than the fact that they now have MORE power to have their way in the future. That is all that the commission accomplished with the TAXPAYER's $10,000. I take back my THANK YOU to them for doing what is right. It is now THANK YOU FOR NOTHING!