All but one of the five members of the City Engineer’s Department who appeared before the Mayor and City Council’s Human Resource Committee have been suspended without pay. This decision was taken even as several councillors declared that if replacements were available they would have fired them.
“The level of disrespect in their facial expression alone would’ve caused me, had I been the chairman, to say fire them now. But we do not have people to replace them,” Councillor Noelle Chow-Chee declared even as council maintained that the men were being disciplined for remorseless neglect of duty.
Deputy City Engineer Ron Eastman, Assistant City Engineer Rasheed Kellman, Technician Engineer Kabila Hollingsworth, Senior Building Inspector Marlon Harris and Building Inspector Vaughn Canterbury were all placed before the committee for disciplinary action after City Engineer Colvern Venture accused the men
