Comments on: Mayor vs Fire Chief Battle Heats Up

By: what a cryin' shame

what a cryin' shame — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 02:14:57 +0000

Let us find to define by statute “cause deemed sufficient”.

Also, sung to the Beatles song,
‘Don’t Let Me Down”, former mayor might be singing, “Doan let me down; repeat; repeat; repeat.

The former chief will live on with continued success. Fire chief exited fire.

By: WS

WS — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:46:00 +0000

Regarding PERSI, Doan doesn’t have to hit the rule of 80. He’s over 50, so he can take an early retirement. Though considering the number of points he has anyway, there would be little difference either way. He will be sitting very nicely, financially, with a handsome and reliable deposit from PERSI at the first of every month for the rest of his life.

By: Guy 1234

Guy 1234 — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:23:07 +0000

For those of you who support Doan: why? Because you voted for Bieter? Because his vocation was to provide fire protection for us? I’m good at my job, but that doesn’t make me a good person. Doan has serious character flaws. I would implore people who are blindly supporting this man to dig deeper. His self-serving actions and unwillingness to cooperate with a (female) superior is just a sliver of the kind of person he is.

By: Smeg

Smeg — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:37:58 +0000

I am sure The Wolf is correct about the PERSI timing. Sad the mayor is so petty that she won’t grant a 30 year employee the opportunity to cross the finish line because of politics. If he was guilty of a crime that would be different. I guess we are seeing her true character.

By: The Wolf

The Wolf — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 02:46:19 +0000

He’s 51, with 29 years. His PERSI ‘rule of 80’ must hit in May. Maybe that’s why he’s holding on so tight.

By: Options

Options — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:09:22 +0000

I suspect their are issues that the city council cannot ignore and that the vote will be for him to be released. He didn’t quite have enough time in for that cushy full retirement. He will still have retirement, once he puts in more years, but without the cushion he was offered to thank him for his service. I don’t think he thought it through, and maybe he is getting bad advice.

By: XX

XX — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:37:00 +0000

Boise City just gave the required 24-hour notice for a Special Meeting to be held on Friday at City Hall, 12:30pm.

By: rabula

rabula — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:35:17 +0000

Doan is behaving like a politician, not an appointed public servant who serves at the mayor’s discretion. Read the HR letter that Doan chose to release—https://twitter.com/FireChiefDoan/status/1235277952532672513/photo/1

It is clear that Doan had options, including offering his resignation. It’s unclear exactly what he was holding out for. But at his salary level, his PERSI benefit should be quite sufficient. A three-month payout on administrative leave at taxpayer expense does seem a bit greedy. Now it’s in the council’s hands.

By: Dave Kangas

Dave Kangas — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:15:17 +0000

Oh boy the waters gets murkier and murkier with each “what if”. Here’s my take, something was said or done in between the separation agreement offer and Doan’s counter proposal. What ever was said or done happened behind the scenes and it got back to McLean, there by triggering the revocation of that offer…. Something happened and it quicky went south for Doan.

By: katie fite

katie fite — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:34:32 +0000

I for one think there may be issues beyond Doan doing politicking for Bieter. Several times Doan represented to City Council that new developments somehow met the city standards and response times for Fire, when in fact they did not – as opposing public testimony at those meetings laid out. Go back and listen to the Northwest Neighborhood Prominence development hearings and several other recent hearings on the archived City Council session site. Doan tried to cobble together a series of excuses for why the city had failed for many years to provide stations to serve the city’s increasing sprawl.