Hiring process should be done in public
To the editor:
After reading the editorials in the March 2 Star-Herald, I must say I agree with Mrs. Blanchard and Gilbert Morin.
Why must we go out of the area and even the state to hire a chief of police when we have perfectly good, able and qualified personnel on the force now? I’m speaking of Sergeants Joey Seeley and Wayne Selfridge. They know the job and they both have their thumbs on the pulse of this city.
So we hire a chief from Florida. I wonder can law enforcement in Florida be even close to like that in northern Maine.
The other item I’d like to address is this. Why isn’t the public (i.e. the voters) privileged to the hiring process? Why is it always done in “executive session”? Those behind closed doors have got to stop. What is our city council hiding from us? What is it they don’t want us to hear or know?
I’m a registered voter and come election time, I am going to use my one vote.
Gerald E. Marsland Jr.
