Inweekly has discovered the job description for the Pensacola Fire Chief was changed on March 14, six weeks before Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle completed his investigation of Fire Chief…
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City of Pensacola CFO warns Council about special meeting on fire chiefs
Dick Barker, Chief Financial Officer for the City of Pensacola, yesterday sent a memo to City Administrator Eric Olson warning that any public discussion of Mayor Ashton Hayward’s investigation and termination of…
Deas complaint against Pensacola deputy fire chief may not have qualified as a city grievance
The complaint lodged by Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson that has gotten the most attention from the media concerns how Fire Chief Matt Schmitt handled a complaint filed by a firefighter…
Pensacola mayor defends independence of investigation of fire chiefs
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward addressed with the News Journal concerns that the Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle’s investigation of Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover was…
Independence of Pensacola fire chiefs investigation questioned
New documents published by former Pensacola Councilwoman Maren Deweese have cast doubts about the independence of Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle’s investigation of Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire…
Boyd Forum: Citizens admonish empty chairs of MIA Pensacola mayor and administrator
Several citizens appeared the Boyd Forum held at the beginning of the Pensacola City Council on Thursday, May 12. Many wore red bands on their arms in support of Fire Chief Matt…
Pensacola City Hall adds more files to ‘Transparent’ page on fire chiefs
On Tuesday, May 10, when the mayor’s office published the mayor’s decision to terminate Pensacola Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover, the city posted the investigative reported prepared…
Inside Fire Chiefs Report: Deas complaint, failed to follow union grievance process
Chief Human Resources Office Ed Sisson complained, “Schmitt and Glover intentionally and deceptively severely retaliated against Edward Deas, an African-American Fire Lieutenant, merely because Deas made a written complaint about Glover.” This has…
Inside Fire Chiefs Report: Drug test, questioned but taken, nothing improper found
Chief Human Resource Officer Ed Sisson also complained that “Glover improperly tried to obstruct a random drug test.” Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle did not find that the Deputy Fire…
Inside the Fire Chiefs Report: Sisson upset about dinner remarks, really?
Chief Human Resource Officer Ed Sisson claimed that Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover publicly demeaned him during the Firefighters Annual Awards ceremony Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle wrote on the…
Inside Fire Chiefs Investigation: Battalion chief raises, ‘blame to go around to all’
Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson complained that “(Deputy Fire Chief) Glover and (Fire Chief) Schmitt handled raise requests for the battalion chiefs poorly, and then improperly tried to place the blame…
Inside Pensacola Fire Chiefs Report: Apprenticeship and BMW complaint ruled unfounded
Among Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson’s six complaints was an allegation about Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover and the Fire Apprenticeship Program: “Glover poorly managed a âFirefighter Apprenticeship Program,â unnecessarily antagonizing…