Part One
Full-time pay for a part-time chief?
Our public safety administrators are the two top paid people in the city. Former Mayor Mary Clare Higgins commented in Northampton Media, “Police and fire are the only departments in the city that have to cover 24 hours a day seven days a week... “Everybody’s working hard [and] working extremely long hours.”
Not Chief Brian Duggan. Police Chief Sienkowicz may be at his desk at 8:30 AM, but not Duggan. Our second-highest paid official is a double-dipper: drawing a full time salary of $139,095 while drawing a salary as a project manager and consultant for Municipal Resources Inc. of Meredith, New Hampshire.
At most other city offices I know of, the administrators are always there at 8:30 am, facing whatever needs to be done, answering the phone calls and dealing with the latest. They are civic servants. The Chief of Police will be there. I know every weekday about 8:20 am George Zimmerman, our treasurer, will be coming across the Round House parking lot and heading for his office with a big briefcase of papers he probably spent reading the night before. I know that at 8:30 am our building inspector will be sitting at his secretary’s desk making a note to someone and giving me the evil eye as I stand there at the counter with a question.
But the Fire Chief is never at his desk at 8:30 am. Read the story here
Not Chief Brian Duggan. Police Chief Sienkowicz may be at his desk at 8:30 AM, but not Duggan. Our second-highest paid official is a double-dipper: drawing a full time salary of $139,095 while drawing a salary as a project manager and consultant for Municipal Resources Inc. of Meredith, New Hampshire.
At most other city offices I know of, the administrators are always there at 8:30 am, facing whatever needs to be done, answering the phone calls and dealing with the latest. They are civic servants. The Chief of Police will be there. I know every weekday about 8:20 am George Zimmerman, our treasurer, will be coming across the Round House parking lot and heading for his office with a big briefcase of papers he probably spent reading the night before. I know that at 8:30 am our building inspector will be sitting at his secretary’s desk making a note to someone and giving me the evil eye as I stand there at the counter with a question.
But the Fire Chief is never at his desk at 8:30 am. Read the story here
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