Lower Nazareth Meeting by BernieOHare on Scribd
I will try my best to be there. I will be covering a county budget hearing.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017
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What is baseless about a 3.5% raise in 2018. Obviously this will raise the cost of operations! If the CRPD officers, the highest paid in the county, care for the taxpayers in LNT, they will defer the raise and participate in negotiations that will reduce wages and benefits that will help defray the Bath departure in 2019 and will make it more palpable for at least LNT to remain in the CRPD.
ReplyDeleteWhere are you getting this 3.5% rsise number from? I'm not sure that is accurate, but even if it is, its a raise that all 3 municipalities agreed to at contract time.
DeleteAs for defraying costs due to bath departure, there would be nothing to defray. Bath is on the hook for their portion of the budget until end of contract. After that, I'm assuming their portion would be cut via manpower.
State Police is the best Regional Police force out there for the buck. No cost to the the local taxpayer. Lower Macungie and North Whitehall have figured this out and it works for them. Can't understand why anyone has local police when the State Police will do it for free?
ReplyDeleteState Police is not free. WE all pay for you and the real cost is in the form of delayed response times. Normal patrols are eliminated and in many communities, the criminal element thrives. No fault of PSP.
ReplyDeleteIn 2016 the CRPD made a 156 retail theft arrests, 51.3% of the arrests in Lower Nazareth Township. To pay the regional top dollar in Northampton County and to be an errand boy for the mega-stores such as Walmart & etc., Lower Nazareth doesn't need such a "high price" police entity. Whoever the author of of 0644 am is, your ill-informed post is off base. Next year the regional top rated patrol person will receive an almost $2.00 increase, pushing his yearly salary past $79,000 per year. In addition, Bath is leaving in 2019, or maybe sooner, as per the articles of incorporation of the CRPC. However, I do agree that all three participants did agree in collective bargaining to pay these personnel increases. The CRPC members should be flogged and fired for their blatant misuse of taxpayer's money. This posture at the negotiation table is the culprit in this debacle, not the police officers.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused by your first part of post. Are you implying that 156 retail arrests are high or low? And if that is only half of all arrests, then they have over 300 arrests in the township total. If you don't want to pay for a police force that can handle that amount of arrests, don't you think crime will increase in the 248 corridor because there won't be enough police to handle all the calls?
DeleteThat is a handbill, not my words. So I am unable to answer questions about something I never wrote. I do know this question was answered three years ago in Lower Nazareth. Eric Nagle, who is
ReplyDeletea lame duck,is clearly behind this. He saw what Bath did and is trying to ruin the police department as a parting gift to the health and welfare of his own community.
Someone really needs to get to the bottom of Mr. Nagle's personal vendetta. Why is he out to get the CRP? What motivates him? It certainly isn't the taxpayers.
ReplyDelete@5:55,
ReplyDeleteNice trolling.
Regional policing is the right thing for Pennsylvania. However crpd is the worst case scenario played out. It is nothing more then a power hungry group obtaining power for less than righteous endeavors. The upper management is incapable of exercising appropriate projection of this authority. Excessive expenditures, take-home cars, member showing up intoxicated for firearms training, missing money from the drug task force fund and other unaccountable abuses are the norm for one of Northampton County highest paid police department. This is nothing more than a bad marriage that must end. The wife has decided she has had enough of the abuse. "Good ahead...see what you get..." is that abusers response. She will suffer when leaving until she establishes her independence and is capable of providing substantively. It will be a long arduous road but it is what's best for her children. Good luck lower! !
ReplyDeletePretty serious unsubstantiated claims. Seems like pure BS.
DeleteThe marriage comments mimics exactly what Mr. Nagle used as an analogy. Umh!
DeleteHopefully these folks stay informed on Brown's Gracedale prison plans. When he puts a prion near Nazareth you may need to be sure you have a strong police presence for protection.
ReplyDeleteWow you are correct Bernie. I was at this meeting, and it was standing room only. Mr. Nagle from the very start was belligerent and disrespectful to many speakers as they all praised the CRPD. Every. Single. Person. who spoke was in favor of retaining the CRPD. Mr. Nagle clearly has no interest in listening to his constituents and is pursuing something personal. What that is however I do not know.
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