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Rick,

Not only are you a tax cheat but you are a bold face liar and completely inept when it comes to any conversation pertaining to the WFD budget. You saw paychecks? Your full of it. I, on the other hand have all of the base salaries and all of the year end ending salaries of all department members for the last 3 years, on a spread sheet that was obtained thru APRA which shows that EVERY MEMBER made huge overtime during the 3 year wage freeze period. By the way, that's in addition to several W2 forms of random employees. You are so wrong that I may have to start calling you Pinocchio, instead of the Non-Taxpayer Mayor.

Fact - As of the end of the second fiscal quarter the WFD has consumed $1,146,121.49 in overtime. They have consumed 99.1% of Fire 2 overtime and 53.7% of Fire 1 overtime. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

Fact - In the first fiscal quarter of 2016-17 in 90 days there were 492 changes of shift, 680 sick days, and 1105 vacation days.

(I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

Fact - At the budget hearing the chief testified that vacation is covered by straight time. However, 1105 of 1105 vacation days in the first fiscal quarter were all covered at the overtime rate. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

Fact - At the budget hearings the chief testified and agreed that by contract, all "substitutions" "are approved in writing only" and he further stated that these documents are available thru the APRA process. I requested them and received notification from the city that no such documents existed. I then requested the "Change of Shift Form 109" along with all attendance records from the first fiscal quarter. As it turns out, zero out of 492 forms have been filled out. What does that mean? That means that any employee can change his shift for any reason without permission. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

Fact - In the first fiscal quarter there were 2277 changes of originally scheduled manpower. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

Fact - We discovered, due to my questioning of the chief that the WFD does not track sick time of uniformed firefighters and itemize it in a line on the balance sheet. They only track the civilian office workers on line item 35-100. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?) If I was an employee in any other department I would be filing a lawsuit based on unfair labor practices. This deceptive accounting practice, which can be argued as a fraud scheme, is the key to hiding sick time so all sick time is protected to receive an unused sick pay bonus.

Fact - What this amounts to is this - every sick day that is incurred is charged off to the taxpayer under RIGL Title 45 -19 and that no fire fighter has a sick day or vacation day deducted from their allotment for any reason when sick or substituting. In other words, a man gets a hangover, instead of calling in sick, or taking a vacation day, he substitutes, protecting his sick days and vacation days. A man has a part time job, he substitutes and goes to work elsewhere, for example Green Hall URI. Records are not kept, the fraud continues, and every chief along the way has been a beneficiary of the scam.

Fact - When reviewing the over 500 documents that I have gotten so far, the attendance sheets show several interesting trends. For example, on the last day of a mans shift, he has a COS, then goes on vacation for 4 days, then has another COS at the back end. Same thing happens over and over. Its calculated to get more time off, and no COS from 109's are tracked. (I have the actual documents Rick, what do you have?)

So the lies that we have heard for over a decade that overtime will be eliminated is just more Bull. Also, we now have the chief, and you (laughable) bragging about the floaters reducing the overtime. Did either of you factor in the salaries and benefit packages into that equation to determine the net worth of the added manpower which now exceeds minimum manning? Did you factor in the sick day and vacation pay, uniform pay, cleaning allowances? Of course not, that takes actual math skills.

While we are speaking in fact, let me address some more fact that I discovered in the last few days. This has to do with the Non-Taxpayer Mayor and his delinquent car taxes.

Fact - Your 2009-10 car tax payments - ALL PAID LATE

Fact - Your 2010-11 car tax payments due July 15 2010 not paid until January 25 2012. 18 months late.

Fact - your 2011-12 car tax payments due July 15 2011 not paid until January 25 2012. 6 months late. (as you were not able to re-register the vehicle)

Fact - your 2012-13 car tax payments due July 15 2012 not paid until March 3 2013. 8 months late.

Fact - your 2016-17 car tax payments due July 15 2016 - No payments made as of this date. Late again. Habitually late.

Then there is the issue of the same time that you weren't paying your property taxes, mysteriously, your car, although still parked at 177 Grand View Ave, in Warwick, mysteriously came off the tax roles and no taxes at all were paid on it. Most likely because it was unregistered, yet still on the road . So between 2013 - 2016 to what city were you paying a car tax to for the same car that has been in use all this time? Another example of the Non-Taxpayer Mayor

Plenty more facts to come but I'm tired of typing and Geppetto is calling me on the other line.